Something has awakened in the fog-enshrouded city of Salthead. An undead sailor dances along the wharves. A sunken ship rises from the waters and sails into the harbour. The ghost of a long dead boy haunts a tavern. The vicious canine of the local miser evolves into an even more terrifying beast...

And in the course of investigating these events, the eminent professor of metaphysics, Titus Tiggs, and his colleague, Dr. Daniel Dampe, encounter something more sinister than anything they had found before - a mystical presence intent on destroying the city of Salthead and every person in it...