Horace Graves is the sole owner of the Graves Mortuary, Crematorium, and Memorial Park. Having both physical deformities and awkward social skills, Horace is desperately lonely. He has neither wife nor friends, but that changes the day he decides to create his own friends and lovers.Instead of burying the dead brought to his mortuary, he mummifies the corpses and places them one-by-one into his living room. Life is good for Horace and his mummified family—for a little while.