There's a sinister tale to be told in Raven's End – or rather, tales. As a young newspaper delivery boy (Byon) cycles through its mist-shrouded streets, there's clearly much awry in the seaside town. Too many strange sightings, too many missing people, too many claws on the lobsters, and too many crows. There is, however, only one funeral home, and that is where Montgomery Dark (the eternally wonderful Brown), the town's mortician and funeral director, works, resides, and collects bodies and stories. The corpses go into the ground or his basement crematorium's retort: but the stories, ah, the stories of the poor unfortunate souls, those he collects, with the ultimate aim of sharing with the right person.