Tales of the Gothic and the Supernatural. From the Casebook of Silas Thorne
Richard Pembroke
Synopsis "Tales of the Gothic and the Supernatural. From the Casebook of Silas Thorne"
A detective's casebook. A city of shadows. A world where the supernatural refuses to stay politely in the dark.
Step into late Victorian London through the eyes of Captain Silas Thorne-soldier, sceptic, and consulting detective of the uncanny. In Tales of the Gothic & the Supernatural, Thorne's meticulously kept casebook reveals a series of interconnected mysteries steeped in fog, folklore, and darkly comic dread.
Joined by the steadfast Sergeant George Harper, the sharp-witted Miss Melinda Farrow, and the enigmatic Duke Nicholas De Rochefort, Thorne confronts a parade of impossible phenomena: haunted rooms that whisper, rituals that hollow out men's souls, spectral knights in foreign alleyways, and river-born creatures older than industry itself. Across these richly atmospheric tales, you'll encounter:
- A barbershop where guilt is shaved away-along with something far more vital - A Regent Street flat plagued by ghostly pie-thieves and whispering walls - A ritual of Enochian magic that threatens to unmake a man from the inside out - Industrial folklore rising from the Tyne in monstrous, amphibious form - Templar spirits haunting a blood-soaked alley in Vienna - A sisterhood of investigators tracing disappearances linked to Jack the Ripper's shadow
Blending gothic horror, mystery, and sly humour, this collection expands into a wider world of Victorian myth, featuring appendices on legends such as Sweeney Todd, the Devil's Vanity of Strasbourg, the Sewer Pigs of London, and the haunted history of the Tyne Staiths.
Perfect for readers of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, The Essex Serpent, and classic Victorian ghost stories, this volume invites you into a London where every shadow hides a secret-and every secret has teeth.