Underground terror

May 5th, 1916 at Vauquois, in Argonne. A group of French soldiers launches an attack without seeing any resistance from the trench on the opposite side. For a very good reason: this trench is deserted! Inside, a blood-soaked gallery of bunkers sinks deep underground, filled with a terrible stench. Five days later, Gaspard Petit, brilliant physiologist of the Natural History Museum of Paris, is summoned to his boss’s office where he finds waiting for him an army doctor, Grandin, and a general, Nivelle. They have arrived with a "sample" of the discoveries made at Vauquois: a deformed body as strange as it is worrying. Petit determines the body was that of a man who had undergone a sudden and accelerated genetic transformation. To learn more about the strange corpse, he is sent to investigate the bunkers... In art style and story, the author follows the footsteps of Mignola (Hellboy), without having to be ashamed with the comparison! This book is the first in a triptych of stand-alone stories.