Deze auteur combineert meesterlijk Victoriaanse gotische settings met gaslamp fantasy, en creëert zo meeslepende werelden vol magie en mysterie. Haar narratieve stijl kenmerkt zich door een rijke sfeer en onderling verbonden personages die door haar diverse series verweven zijn. Als een pionier in het Gaslamp Fantasy-genre duikt haar werk in het bovennatuurlijke en het duister betoverende. Voortbouwend op haar achtergrond in theater en kunst, creëert ze boeiende verhalen met een dramatische flair en een unieke stilistische handtekening.
Set in a hauntingly atmospheric world, this anthology weaves together dreadpunk, gaslamp, and dark steampunk narratives. Readers will encounter chilling tales filled with ghoulish encounters and gothic elements, featuring vampires and demons lurking in fog-drenched alleyways illuminated by flickering gas lamps. The collection promises to immerse you in eerie settings and spine-tingling stories that explore the darker side of urban life.
I was obsessed.It was as if he called to me, demanding I reach out and touch the brushstrokes of color swirled onto the canvas. It was the most exquisite portrait I'd ever seen--everything about Lord Denbury was unbelievable...utterly breathtaking and eerily lifelike.There was a reason for that. Because despite what everyone said, Denbury never had committed suicide. He was alive. Trapped within his golden frame.I've crossed over into his world within the painting, and I've seen what dreams haunt him. They haunt me too. He and I are inextricably linked--bound together to watch the darkness seeping through the gas-lit cobblestone streets of Manhattan. Unless I can free him soon, things will only get Darker Still.
Learning the truth of her mythic past and that of the reincarnated souls called The Guard is only the beginning, for young Percy Parker's destiny is to defend both the world and true love from the gathering undead minions of Darkness.
An excerpt from the author's "The Spectral City" is included, offering readers a glimpse into a narrative that blends elements of mystery and the supernatural. The story delves into themes of urban life intertwined with spectral encounters, exploring the relationship between the living and the haunting pasts that linger in the city. The characters navigate a richly detailed setting where history and the paranormal collide, promising an engaging experience for fans of both genres.
In the late 1860s, in Cairo, Egypt, Beatrice Smith and five other young people
are summoned to become the Guard. From different backgrounds and faiths, they
must unite in the Great Work. Beatrice, as the Leader, is granted intimate
acquaintance with the goddess, who is preparing to take human form.
The albino beauty who has come to study at Victorian London’s Athens Academy will learn not only to deal with the ghosts that she can see, but her own part in the puzzling prophecy that threatens the known world.
Sorrowful widows, vengeful jezebels, innocent maidens, wronged lovers, former slaves, even the occasional axe-murderess--America's female ghosts differ widely in background, class, and circumstance. Yet one thing unites them: their ability to instill fascination and fear, long after their deaths. Here are the full stories behind some of the best-known among them, as well as the lesser-known--though no less powerful. Tales whispered in darkness often divulge more about the teller than the subject. America's most famous female ghosts, from from 'Mrs. Spencer' who haunted Joan Rivers' New York apartment to Bridget Bishop, the first person executed during the Salem witchcraft trials, mirror each era's fears and prejudices. Yet through urban legends and campfire stories, even ghosts like the nameless hard-working women lost in the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire--achieve a measure of power and agency in death, in ways unavailable to them as living women. Riveting for skeptics and believers alike, with humor, curiosity, and expertise, A Haunted History of Invisible Women offers a unique lens on the significant role these ghostly legends play both within the spook-seeking corners of our minds and in the consciousness of a nation
Think Broadchurch meets The Twilight Zone.Newly unemployed writer Lillian travels to Glazier's Gap, Colorado to participate in a writer's conference run by a reviving Gothic romance publisher, only to find her life and new, sexy romance eerily and dangerously reflecting the events of an early-'70s "women running from houses" book.Welcome to Glazier's Gap, Colorado-- a small, gossip-filled hamlet started by the mysterious owners of a now-abandoned silver mine whose unwitting rivalries set the town on a cursed trajectory. From an enormous luxury resort hotel destroyed years ago in a landslide- whose wreckage remains half-buried today- to unexplained fires in grand mansions, the town isn't known for good luck. It's a place with a bright side, though: tourists visit its rickety old ski resort, hike shadowed mountain paths and locals attend its small college. There's even a defunct book publisher starting up again. But underneath it all: Glazier's Gap is full of secrets and ghosts.Every book follows a different person in Glazier's Gap who falls into a supernatural love affair-- like Broadchurch with phantoms, a romantic Twilight Zone in a beautiful, creepy town.
Es ist die Zeit Königin Victorias. Amerika reagiert auf das Attentat auf Lincoln mit der Gründung einer geheimen Gruppe, Æterna, die versucht, dem Präsidenten Unsterblichkeit zu verleihen. Dazu braucht es sowohl Forscher als auch Theologen, Magier und Philosophen. Unmittelbar vor einem großen Durchbruch aber löscht jemand die Gruppe aus. Clara Templeton, Gründungsmitglied von Æterna, hat Schuldgefühle ob der Todesfälle. Sie befürchtet, dass andere Æternas Pfad beschreiten und dasselbe Schicksal erleiden könnten. In England beauftragt die Königin Harold Spire, die Æterna-Verbindung zu beschaffen. Der Zweifler Spire, der jetzt ein Team von Hellsehern, Assassinen und Trickbetrügern anführt, soll dafür seine Untersuchung von Leichenräuberei, Folter und Kindermord durch wohlhabende adlige Mitglieder der Londoner Gesellschaft aufgeben. Er findet Unterstützung bei Rose Everhart, Meisterin der Codes und Geheimschriften, deren Wissen über Gesellschaft und Politik sich bei den schwierigen Ermittlungen als extrem nützlich erweist. Spionage und Gegenspionage, Verrat und Heimsuchungen, Intrigen und die unerwarteten Resultate der Kombination neuer Technologien mit uralten Mächten führen die Briten und Amerikaner auf einen Kollisionskurs, doch niemand ahnt, dass sich bereits ein noch viel größeres Unheil Köpfen zusammenbraut. Ihre erste Aufgabe: Finde die Æterna-Rezeptur, die Unsterblichkeit verleiht. Doch bei einer Katastrophe wird das Geheimlabor in New York City, wo Æterna entwickelt wurde, zerstört. Die Königin indes ist überzeugt, dass jemand entkam und über eine Probe der Substanz verfügt. Auch die Amerikanerin Clara Templeton ist auf der Suche nach Æterna. Nachdem die Ermordung Abraham Lincolns ihre Nation fast zerstört hätte, half sie bei der Entwicklung Æternas. Heimgesucht vom Geist ihres Geliebten ist sie überzeugt davon, dass die Æterna-Verbindung und die damit verbundene Unsterblichkeit einzig in die Hände der Vereinigten Staaten gehört.
