In a land where wishes are real and the guillotine gleams, Cedric has two problems: unrequited love and a recently dead cobbler. When declarations of devotion interrupt an execution, things spiral quickly—from romantic tragedy to folkloric horror. Elmyra isn’t interested. Cedric won’t stop talking. And the Wisherman? He cometh.

A darkly funny, blues-tinged fairy tale set somewhere between Shakespeare and a fever dream, The Wisherman Cometh asks: what’s the price of a pure wish in a town that’s anything but?