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The Flying Dutchman BLEAK FUTURE
A tale of courage, betrayal, myth, and madness that is destined to become a legend of the Seven Seas. A thorough (English) adaptation of the author's great-grand-uncle 1901 De Vliegende Hollander.
Gears, Ghouls, and Gauges
A dozen authors from around the world bring you their take on the Steampunk and Gaslamp Fantasy genres. Science fiction and the supernatural collide to create fantastical creatures, exciting adventures, and unusual technologies. Whether you are brand new to these genres or a long-time fan, everyone will find something to love. Featuring: The Mechanist's Daughter - When a little girl and her malfunctioning automaton show up on her doorstep, an inventor must solve the mystery of its origin. By Tracie McBride The Lady Defiance - A harpy is taken captive and finds unexpected allies among the crew of airship pirates who liberate her. By Mandy Burkhead An Evening on Harbor Ridge - Three soldiers m...
Wages of Sin
Tess Hawkhurst has retired to Sinneport, Sussex, to raise her daughter, run the Mairemaid Inn, and engage in a little illicit business on moonless nights. She reckons she's content, but one fateful night a group of wandering musicians evoke her past so vividly it's hard to tell what's what and when's when...and Tess is left wondering who else might come calling. Inspired by the song Wages of Sin from The Dark Design debut album 12 Tall Tales, this story was first published in The Dark Design Anthology: Tale of the Red Queen and Other Stories.
Them that Ask No Questions: A Sussex Steampunk Tale
Brighton, 1871. Alice is adjusting to life in Brighton's slums but it bain't easy. There's no more time for play, everything revolves around making the weekly rent to avoid the workhouse. When the local constabulary get involved life is about to get a whole lot more complicated.
Rottingdean Rhyme
(A short Steampunk novella) Sussex, 1867. A broken heart drives Yard Pilkin from his native London to a small fishing village on the Sussex Coast. The locals are wary of strangers and initially keep their distance. After Yard makes some unlikely friends, he discovers that every man, woman, and child in the village conspire to conceal a secret.
Draka Raid
Lewinna's father is chieftain of Wyrdwuda. Lewinna has always harboured the impossible ambition to follow in his footsteps. When he's called away to war by King Alfred, taking all the fighting men with him, his domain is threatened by a Danish raid. Lewinna will have to fight to defend her people, but she's not sure if she can.
Amster Damned
A missing person case brings Alice Kittyhawk to Amsterdam where she discovers that the task involves delving into the murky world of temporal displacement. Working with the mysterious Ministry of Lost & Found, Alice will have to take on some formidable foes and race against the clock in defiance of the odds which seem to be stacked against her.
Escape from Neverland
You don't need time portals, magic wardrobes, rabbit holes or faery dust to experience a profoundly different world...all you need to do is walk into the Wyrde Woods. Chances are that they will appear familiar...we have all been there. That timeless semi-mythical dreamtime of our subconscious inhabited by archetypes where anybody can become the hero, especially those who consider themselves the least worthy. Wendy Twyner is definitely one of those who would consider herself unworthy but when she walks out of the dilapidated council estate where she lives and strolls into the Wyrde Woods -only a few miles away but worlds apart- she finds her perceptions challenged and possibilities for change which fill her with hope for a brighter future. In short: A Dreamtime-Tale with a dark twist set in today's Sussex, England.
Dance Into the Wyrd
In this sequel to Escape from Neverland, Wendy Twyner feels that she has found a home in the Wyrde Woods. She is slowly transforming herself into Wenn o' the Farisees with the help of locals Joy Whitfield and Willick Maskall but above all her Green Man Puck. Just as she comes to terms with her life at long last she finds out she must risk it all in order to save the Wyrde Woods from destruction. A modern Faery Tale with a dark twist in best fantabulist tradition.
Will's War in Brighton
June 1940. Will Maskall is twelve years old and up till now has more or less been enjoying the war. From his perspective it has brought about changes to his native seaside town of Brighton which are endlessly fascinating to explore: Spitfires, disrupted lessons, easy pennies, mutoscopic voyeurism, gun batteries on the seafront and the Luftwaffe freely distributing highly collectible shiny cannon shells when Messerschmitt 109s strafe Will and his best mate Jamie on the streets. Brenda, one of Jamie's neighbours, is nine years old and has a different take on the war...and the boys for that matter because she is worried their idiocy might be contagious and infect her little brother Eddie. As th...
