In Hollow's Wake

Penny Dreadful: Book I

When a brilliant but haunted orphan named Silas Voss is chosen by the infamous physician Dr. Algrin Hollow, he believes he's been given a second life. At Harrowick Hall, a sprawling estate of locked corridors and flickering lamps, Silas learns medicine at the edge of morality-guided by Hollow's doctrine that progress demands sacrifice.

Among Hollow's remaining apprentices are Lenore Avenell, whose warmth steadies Silas's devotion, and Thomas Rowe, a quiet, well-mannered student hiding fractures no one dares name. But as experiments grow darker, Hollow's secrets begin to bleed through the walls: missing townsfolk, altered patients, and the whisper of a forbidden study.

When Dr. Hollow unveils a new form of study-one that tests the boundaries between life and death-Silas's faith begins to decay. And somewhere beneath the mask of a friend, a different smile waits-a presence both elegant and terrifying.

Trapped between loyalty, fear, and the dawning horror of what he's become complicit in, Silas spirals toward the truth behind Harrowick Hall.

As Hollow's influence tightens and madness spreads, Silas begins to question which of them truly forged the other-and whether he can destroy a man whose shadow already lives within him.