Forced by accusations of fould play to exhume the body of a recently deceased man, a young detective finds something far worse than he expected. A collapsed jaw, tattered lips and leaking gums, an empty black cavern where once once the mouth had been, evidence that someone had attacked the body with pliers and stolen all of the teeth.

In the Taking of Teeth Occult detective Erasmus Crane faces another terrifying case. and a race against time to prevent a murder. A case which will bring him face to face not only with a crazed mad man, but with the darker older forces that drive him.