Vitreous

In the workshop of Isidore Krell, the eyes don't just mimic sight. They steal it.

Arthur Penhaligon is a desperate man seeking a trade in the fog-choked district of Needle Street. When he is hired as an apprentice to Isidore Krell, the last master ocularist in London, he believes he has found salvation. Krell is famous for creating "bespoke visual organs" for the wealthy and the scarred-glass eyes so realistic they seem to hold a spark of life.

But the workshop is a place of cold furnaces and...