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THE HONEST DEAD is a supernatural mystery micro-series about Kieran, a Warden who hunts stray shadows — physical fragments that tear loose from people who tell consequential lies. When an ordinary patrol leads him to a shadow behaving unlike any he has encountered before, Kieran discovers that it carries the name of Edmund Halloway, a man officially dead for six months. The discovery leads Kieran toward Marrow & Sons Funeral House, revealing that Halloway's death may not be what it seems. The pilot establishes Kieran's world, the rules of the shadows, and a larger mystery that unfolds from here.:
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