Since his childhood, Stanley has been haunted by nightmares that arent just tormenting him during the night, but also in full daylight. As this wasnt enough, he has to live with his overbearing wife and share his house with his old and always fretting mother. But Stanley is a barber by trade, and his sharp razor, pushed by a subtle streak of madness in the man whos handling it, can become a very dangerous weapon... The blood Arkhems streets are awash with can possibly be stopped, with the help of a mysterious girl, by the mephistophelian alchemist, Trevanian, and by the Knight Errant, Brendon...