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Thomas Fool works as an Information Man in Hell, a grim clerk who files reports on the ceaseless brutality that churns through the underworld. His day‑to‑day work is bureaucracy‑driven and devoid of reward, as every crime is marked “Do Not Investigate” and archived. When a powerful political delegation arrives and a human is murdered in extraordinarily gruesome fashion, the status quo shatters. The killings intensify, implying the presence of a killer not seen for generations, challenging Hell’s rigid rules. In response, the Bureaucracy dispatches Fool to identify and halt this threat, thrusting him into a high‑stakes hunt that could upend the infernal order.
First publish date: 2015
Genre: Horror/Supernatural Horror
Authors: Simon Kurt Unsworth
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