Crab's Veil

In the shadowy world of Gravemoor, where the veil between life and death grows thin, a man named Crab wanders aimlessly, burdened by grief and haunted by the past. Once a humble fisherman, he now scrapes by on parlor tricks, gambling winnings, and his uncanny ability to commune with the dead-an ability he discovered after a chance encounter with an eldritch creature left him with a fragment of its glowing shell.

For years, Crab has been tethered to the memory of his late wife, Anwen, whose voice he hears through the fragment. Her ghostly presence is both a comfort and a torment, pulling him deeper into the liminal space between worlds. Desperate to hold onto her yet yearning to move forward, Crab roams the countryside, searching for meaning, redemption, or perhaps a way to undo the curse of his own existence.

But Gravemoor holds secrets darker than Crab's grief. Whispers of the dead growing restless echo through the town, and a mysterious power stirs in the depths of its ancient catacombs. As Crab's tenuous connection to the afterlife grows stronger, so too does the risk of losing himself entirely to its pull. To survive, he must confront not only his own despair but the eldritch forces that seek to consume everything he has left.

With gallows humor, reluctant heroism, and a growing awareness of his place in a world steeped in magic and danger, Crab embarks on a journey to uncover the truth behind the fragment, reconnect with the living, and decide whether he's ready to let go of the dead.

A tale of loss, resilience, and eldritch intrigue, Crab's Veil explores the boundaries of love, memory, and the price of holding on to what is already gone.