Dead and buried, there's no guarantee In potters bluff there's no real R.I.P. Introducing William Dobbs, mortician Serving the dead in the time of need In this town there are dead men walking There's always a body ready at hand Black magic or a medical breakthrough? Re-animated corpses under his command (Chorus) Sadistic mentor Morbid inventor The re-animator of life An artist with the knife Dead coroner Murder as art, corpse painter supreme People here never end up in an urn Death's just the beginning of his evil scheme Can't kill his children, they always return Need them disfigured to work his skills People check in and corpses check out He's the mastermind behind the kills A real life puppet master, no doubt