The Grey Lad of Krous Street

The Grey Lad of Krous Street is a book from the Fansus timeline. The author chose to remain anonymous.

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A penny-dreadful, of dubious quality. Its cover features a rough sketch of a tall man in a grey-blue coat, dragging a lead pipe through snow on the side of a road. There is a censored edition available in some more mundane book stores, but this version is from one of the original printings.

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The narrator is a detective, assigned to investigate the case of the so-called Grey Lad. As the story progresses, the Lad becomes more and more violent, but never actually kills any of his victims. Each victim is described vividly, with special attention paid to the injuries they sustained, but the police officers, and the detective himself, are nonentities.

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The last victim, a woman who identifies herself as Chronos, loses an arm and a leg, and her skull is deformed badly enough that even the detective notes that she should not have survived. She has learned to walk on her remaining hand and foot, and her hair has become prehensile. She explains to the Detective that all has been put to right. In the censored version, the Detective simply stumbles in on the snow-drenched corpse of a man in a brown suit. He has sustained no visible injury.