Taking place in a steampunk-infused Victorian era, a major technological breakthrough has been made - the ability to reanimate corpses and have them effectively serve as slave labour.

A captivating historical action thriller based on a Phillip K. Dick Award winning novel by Project Itoh, The Empire of Corpses is set in a parallel 19th-century Europe where human corpses have been re-animated to provide military muscle and slave labour. In London, John Watson is set upon discovering the missing component – the soul – and restoring humanity to these creatures. Peppered with literary and historical characters throughout, The Empire of the Corpses is an intriguing mix of genres.

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Q: Protagonist John Watson is based on the character of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous Sherlock Holmes series. But which name did the author originally give John Watson?

A: .1) Ormond Sacker .2) Bucky Wunderlick .3) Abra Bacon .4) Gregor Samsa