It's not every day you have to dig yourself out of your own grave, only to find out you have a hole in your chest, your heart's missing, you have no memory of your own name or past and you are in fact dead; but the Buried Man is having one of those days. After being recruited into a team of necromancer hunters calling themselves the Deadlanders, Skullion (an obsidian-clad skeleton), Merveya (a Lich illusionist) and the Buried Man all infiltrate a dark cult whilst at the same time try to piece the Buried Man's memory back together. But what he finds out may be more horrifying than his current...