Welcome to 1870s London, populated by the usual suspects: costermongers and fishwives, worldly philosophers and new messiahs, inspired inventors and mad scientists, millionaires and grave robbers. In this city of contradictions and improbabilities, a dead man pilots an airship and living men are willing to risk all to steal a carp. Here, a night of bangers and ale at the local pub can result in an eternity at the Blood Pudding with the rest of the reanimated dead.