Tinker and Terror

This short story takes place after BOOKS AND BONE.
 

Veritas is special. He's a visionary, a necromancer-on-the-rise with scientific principals. But his latest experiment is failing, and he'll need more help than his scuttling skull minion can provide. Perhaps the travelling tinker passing through town will prove useful ⁠— he can always use another pair of hands, after all …