Stormshadow introduces the tale of a man who survives a car crash, but finds himself trapped in a private clinic at the mercy of its lunatic owner, the terrifying Doctor Despair. The Doctor seeks to use him as a pawn in a monstrous scheme of revenge against the wife who once betrayed him. The hero struggles to save her, but in Doctor Despair's asylum, no one is ever sure of what is a lie and what is the awful truth... Doctor Despair is a comic-book adaptation of a classic French horror novel by renowned author Marc Agapit.