SIX paranormal steampunk adventures from today’s bestselling and award-winning authors. There’s something for every steampunk lover in the collection of mad science, twisted fairytales, myths, ghosts, vampires, shifters, magic, techno-fantasy with settings such as gothic romance, urban fantasy, Victorian, and so much more.
...ageless tales were told from one generation to the next, filled with both wonders and warnings. Tales of handsome princes and wicked queens, of good-hearted folk and evil stepmothers. Tales of danger and caution and magic...classics that still echo in our hearts and memories even to this day, told from old, cherished books or from memory at Grandma's knee.
Oh yes, tales have been told...but never quite like these. Journey with us through the pages of Gaslight and Grimm to discover timeless truths through lenses polished in the age of steam.
contains: In Wolf’s Clothing by James Chambers When Pigs Fly by Christine Norris From the Horses (sic) Mouth by Bernie Mojzes The Steamy Tale of Cinderella by Danny Birt The Clockwork Nightingale by Jean Marie Ward ! The Walking Horse by Jeff Young The Patented Troll by Gail Z. Martin and Larry N. Martin A Cat Among the Gears by Elaine Corvidae The Steam-Powered Dragon by David Lee Summers All for Beauty and Youth by Kelly A. Harmon The Giant Killer by Jonah Knight The Hair Ladder by Diana Bastine The Perfect Shoes by Jody Lynn Nye
Airships and sky pirates! Brain Modification chips! Technologically enhanced nymphs! Shakespeare goes punk in this first volume of stories from Writerpunk Press.
Profits to go to PAWS Lynwood, an animal shelter and wildlife rescue.
Ask a bunch of eclectic writers to write stories inspired by one of the greatest dramatists of all time. Cast the stories in various punk genres: Cyber, Tesla, Diesel, Steam, Clock. Result: an innovative collection of stories inspired by the Bard, with a twist! Punk stories show the path not taken or the path that shouldn't be taken. Let us reshape your world.
Here at Kristell Ink we are pleased to announce our first publication: Strange Tales From The Scriptorian Vaults, an anthology of carefully chosen Steampunk inspired stories. All profits from this book will be given to the charity First Story (www.firststory.org.uk) – a small UK based charity that promotes literacy and creativity in schools situated in deprived areas.
Here's what they had to say about the book:
"First Story is passionate about celebrating the art of storytelling. We are delighted to be associated with the nine talented writers who have shared their stories in the first publication from Kristell Ink, Strange Tales from the Scriptorian Vaults. We would like to thank them for their generosity in selecting us as their charity, which will enable a new generation of young writers to tell their stories. We wish them every success on the publication of their book.
About the collection: When the newly-promoted Sergeant Crystal Lewis and her military team loops to a parallel world, they discover a London very different to those their agency have investigated elsewhere. Steam powered ships fill the sky, metal creatures scurry through the streets, and the Great Library is now nothing more than a burnt out shell; the history, knowledge and literature of the world has been destroyed. Crystal's investigations discover the records of the Scriptorians: elite explorers, scientists and chroniclers, chosen for their wordsmith abilities, their tenacious belief in uncovering the truth, their passion for the bizarre and baffling. There is some evidence that these mysterious adventurers, fighters and writers also discovered the technology to loop and visit other parallel worlds. Here are some of their tales...
Zoe Harris offers us a vision of feminism taken to extremes, while Ken Dawson has the epitome of the pushy parent at the heart of his story; Jake Finlay’s and Ross Kitson’s stories are concerned with moral dilemmas in research and medicine and both consider the nature of immortality; Steven J. Guscott gives a novel twist to the Frankenstein story; David Muir’s central character is an apparently immortal warrior; on lighter note, Paul Freeman gives us a hero easily swayed by a pretty face and adventure, and Robert Peett shows a world of strange invasions, infections and mutations, and at the end, Sammy H.K Smith shows how it all began with the daring Lady Pippa Raven - the first true Scriptorian.
My Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen, Welcome to the clockwork frontier. You are cordially invited on a trip to reclaim those lost and forgotten steam driven futures. Join the Immersion Book of Steampunk for an expedition through a new age of glorious industry. Encounter suffragette air-pirates, the art deco terror of imperial skies, unwrap the bullet-proof magic of a cynical prince, or discover the dark ensorcelled secrets of evolutionary public engineering. Newton and Nostradamus shape these worlds together, and that insistent ticking of a double-escapement could signal the portal to a new life in Her Majesty's Off World Colonies or the countdown of an anarchist's time-travelling bomb.
Modern masters of steampunk and horror offer their own spin on the Sherlock Holmes mythos in a series of stories that are “a thunderously good time” ( Criminal Element )
A brand-new collection of Sherlock Holmes stories from a variety of exciting voices in modern horror and steampunk, including James Lovegrove, Justin Richards, Paul Magrs, Guy Adams and Mark Hodder. Edited by respected anthologist George Mann, and including a story by Mann himself.
Introduction by George Mann The Loss of Chapter Twenty-One by Mark Hodder Holmes and the Indelicate Widow by Mags L Halliday The Demon Slasher of Seven Sisters by Cavan Scott The Post-Modern Prometheus by Nick Kyme Mrs Hudson at the Christmas Hotel by Paul Magrs The Case of the Night Crawler by George Mann The Adventure of the Locked Carriage by Stuart Douglas The Tragic Affair of the Martian Ambassador by Eric Brown The Adventure of the Swaddled Railwayman by Richard Dinnick The Pennyroyal Society by Kelly Hale The Persian Slipper by Steve Lockley The Property of a Thief by Mark Wright Woman’s Work by David Barnett The Fallen Financier by James Lovegrove
105,000 words of steampunk romance, edited by the award-winning Liz Grzyb.
Stories by:
Marilag Angway, "Smuggler's Deal" Cherith Baldry, "The Venetian Cat" Gio Clairval, "The Writing Cembalo" M L D Curelas, "Ironclad" Ray Dean, "Practically Perfect" Stephanie Gunn, "Escapement" Richard Harland, "The Kiss of Reba Maul" Rebecca Harwell, "Love in the Time of Clockwork Horses" Faith Mudge, "Descension" Nicole Murphy, "The Wild Colonial Clockwork Boy" Katrina Nicholson, "Lady Presto Magnifico and the Disappearing Glass Ceiling" Anthony Panegyres, "The Tic-Toc Boy of Constantinople" Amanda Pillar, "A Clockwork Heart" Angela Rega, "The Law of Love" Carol Ryles, "Siri and the Chaos-Maker" DC White, "South, to Glory"
Seven stories of erotic steampunk, exploring worlds of clockwork people and their relationship to their creators. If a mad scientist of the steam age were to create his or her own being, what desires would be reflected there? With stories by Eric Del Carlo, Jason Rubis, Elizabeth Schechter, Lionel Bramble, AN Cortez, Helena Weiss, Monique Poirier.
Replete with whimsical mechanical wonders and charmingly anachronistic settings, this pioneering anthology gathers a brilliant blend of fantastical stories. Steampunk originates in the romantic elegance of the Victorian era and blends in modern scientific advances—synthesizing imaginative technologies such as steam-driven robots, analog supercomputers, and ultramodern dirigibles. The elegant allure of this popular new genre is represented in this rich collection by distinctively talented authors, including:
Content
"Introduction: The 19th Century Roots of Steampunk" by Jess Nevins
"Benediction: Excerpt from The Warlord of the Air" by Michael Moorcock "Lord Kelvin's Machine" by James P. Blaylock "The Giving Mouth" by Ian R. MacLeod "A Sun in the Attic" by Mary Gentle "The God-Clown is Near" by Jay Lake "The Steam Man of the Prairie and the Dark Rider Get Down: A Dime Novel" by Joe R. Lansdale "The Selene Gardening Society" by Molly Brown "Seventy-Two Letters" by Ted Chiang "The Martian Agent, A Planetary Romance" by Michael Chabon "Victoria" by Paul Di Filippo "Reflected Light" by Rachel E. Pollock "Minutes of the Last Meeting" by Stepan Chapman "Excerpt from the Third and Last Volume of Tribes of the Pacific Coast" by Neal Stephenson "The Steam-Driven Time Machine: A Pop Culture Survey" by Rick Klaw "The Essential Sequential Steampunk: A Modest Survey of the Genre within the Comic Book Medium" by Bill Baker
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