horror · supernatural · gothic · ocean setting · mysterious · suspense · aristocratic intrigue · demonic pact
***April 17, 1889*** The luxurious ***Campania*** carves a path through the black, rolling sea, its gleaming decks alive with music and revelry—a brilliant mask for the grotesque secret festering in its bowels. Ciel Phantomhive arrives, his imposing butler Sebastian and the peculiar Snake in tow. He enters the grand ballroom only to be met by the complicated tableau of the Midford family: Elizabeth’s face lights with pure, effusive joy; Edward’s is twisted in familiar disdain; and Francis’s eyes narrow as they track Sebastian’s every move. Unheard and unseen below, the living dead shift in the oppressive dark, their hollow patience thinning, poised to tear this elegant fiction apart.