In The Man Who Talked with Death, the chilling narrative unfolds in a dimly lit morgue where Pop Hanson, the keeper, claims to have the ability to communicate with the dead. As the story begins, two men, Tom and Harry, enter the morgue, feeling uneasy in the cold and dark environment. They are there to collect photographs for a story but soon find themselves drawn into a deeper mystery involving a murder victim named Wainwright. Pop insists that Wainwright, who was a blackmailer, revealed his killer to him after death, and the tension escalates as Tom becomes increasingly skeptical of Pop's claims.