It’s been several months since the events of The Yellow M, but the

evil of Professor Septimus still echoes around London. Important

figures of the capital’s jet set come together around the

questionable values the mad scientist defended. Olrik is forced to

resort to opium in order to forget he was guinea pig. As for

Mortimer, he too is trying, albeit for more humanist reasons, to

revive certain aspects of Septimus’s work – to Blake’s extreme

concern…