victorian - Stories

A note on this story: it is written in the dense, melancholy register of 19th-century Gothic fiction, and does not shy from grief, loneliness, or loss along its way to its ending.

For a hundred and fifty years, Jack has walked a county that has forgotten him, a farm boy who bartered his soul at a crossroads and paid twice over for it. Refused by Heaven, unclaimed by Hell, he has only a stolen coal to light his way, and windows he can watch but never touch.

Then he finds Julian's: nineteen, ill, certain no one would notice if he stopped waking. As October nears Halloween, the veil thins, and an old bargain comes due.

Capybara commander Barnaby, Leo, and Sam save a Victorian flat from a catastrophic temporal board anomaly.

The French Revolutionary War is finally coming to a conclusion, and after eight years of conflict, George Granger is going to have to adapt to a world at peace. While the conflict with France may be at an end, George has his own challenges to face. He has returned home to find himself richer, but estranged from his wife. His best friend and lover, Francis Calvert, has been wounded in the Caribbean and has not yet returned to England. Join George as he navigates this fraught era, which may be even more dangerous than when England at France were at war.

In the bruise-yellow fog of Victorian London, two ruined men find an illegal warmth. Liam Carter, a shattered cavalry officer haunted by war and a broken marriage, saves Anders Highmore, an ethereal painter freezing in an alley. Forced together in a mildewed garret, their survival sparks a dangerous, deepening intimacy—a fire that could save them or see them hanged. A brutal, beautiful historical romance about finding light in London’s darkest corners.