The Gutted Canon

In the rain-lashed city of Ashwick, disabled claim investigator Ben Crowder is crushed by the denial of his subsistence benefits—a real-world bureaucratic death sentence. But when a serial killer begins staging murders lifted from classic novels, turning the metropolis into a grotesque literary tableau, Crowder realizes that survival demands not just abandoning his moral compass, but weaponizing it. Each new body is a page from a book, and the next chapter can only be written if he agrees to become both reader and author of atrocity.