The Mortuary Attendant
This book follows a man who takes a job at a mortuary expecting a quiet routine work, but quickly discovers that nothing about the place is normal.
At first, the strange events are easy to dismiss: objects that seem slightly too aware, machines that react oddly, and coworkers who treat the impossible like part of everyday life. But over time, it becomes clear that the mortuary is not just unusual, it behaves as if it is listening, responding, and remembering.
As the job continues, the boundaries between the living and the "leftover" parts of the dead begin to blur. Emotional echoes linger in places and objects, and the narrator becomes someone who can hear them. What starts as curiosity turns into a new, unsettling kind of normal.
Alongside the chaos of work, he navigates a group of equally strange colleagues, each coping with the situation in their own way, and a growing inability to separate professional life from personal reality. The most disruptive presence of all is Isabella, a mysterious figure tied to the mortuary who appears and disappears in ways that defy explanation, pulling the narrator into a relationship that is both absurd and deeply unsettling.
As the story unfolds, humor and horror mix with exhaustion and acceptance. The narrator slowly realizes that survival in this world is not about solving the mystery or restoring order, it's about learning to live inside it without breaking.
In the end, the book is less about ghosts or hauntings and more about adaptation: what happens when the strange stops feeling strange, and you begin to wonder whether the problem was ever the place... or simply your ability to notice it.
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