Interesting.

This is ghastly, and brilliant. I love the vivid details: the sewn-shut mouths and fumigation with muriatic steam, the amber coloured tinctures, all very suggestive of a pre-modern but not so very long ago setting. It has the feeling of an old fashioned scientific romance: very Wellsian.

There’s a real rush of information here. If you’re going to do exposition, make it moody and get it over and done with – just as you have here.