LONDON’S STREETS RUN DRY!
Something stalks the fog-choked alleys of Seven Dials — something ancient, something hungry, something that leaves its victims cold as church marble and empty as a broken promise. Three women dead. Not a drop of blood between them.
Inspector Crudge is baffled. London is terrified.
But one woman isn’t running.
Catherine Sparrow — seamstress, survivor, the most dangerous person on the worst street in the city — has a knife, a plan, and absolutely no intention of being anybody’s victim.
Red Varney has walked these streets for centuries.
He has never met anyone like her.
He should have stayed in his box.
Amanda Girard
Building a Generic USB-over-IP Setup
This article explains how to build a generic USB-over-IP setup using a Raspberry Pi or similar Linux single-board computer. It describes how a USB peripheral can be plugged into a network-connected bridge device, exported using Linux USB/IP, and imported by a client computer so the device appears locally. The guide covers suitable hardware, network design, installation, automatic startup, security controls, device compatibility, troubleshooting, and practical configurations such as lab benches, firmware development stations, printer bridges, and remote serial access. It also notes Windows limitations and recommends VPNs or firewall rules for secure operation.
Red Velvet
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DEAD OF WINTER AT ASHMORE COURT
The branch line from Exeter to Devonport runs through this country,
through the market towns and the agricultural villages and the moorland
that rises between them. Tonight, the 7:15 from Exeter has developed a fault..
The Vale Dairies
The Velveteen Husk The damp of the Fens didn’t just cling to Dr. Elspeth Vale’s coat; it seemed to negotiate with her bones. She sat in the back of a…
The Chalk-Mother’s Toll
The Chalk-Mother’s Toll A Folk Horror Scenario for Call of Cthulhu (1930s) This adventure takes place in the South Downs, Sussex, during a heatwave in July 1934. The thin soil…
The Plenty Below
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Occult topography of the West Country
The West Country’s dense layering of prehistoric monuments, medieval settlements, and early modern estates intensifies this effect. When a manor disappears, the absence itself becomes a feature of the landscape, inviting explanation. Infernal narratives provide a vocabulary for articulating that absence.
Lost manors and infernal agency in the West Country
Landscape, memory, fire, and the moral imagination of place The West Country does not announce its histories loudly; they are found in fragments, in stories told half in passing, in…
Post Fate
This work advances a cold and radical thesis: the future may continue without man remaining its central subject. The systems we built to extend our power—industry, computation, automation, infrastructure—are no longer merely our tools. They are becoming the deeper structure of the world, increasingly able to organize energy, matter, information, and control without us at the center.
Subtly Wrong
Jane Ellery first noticed the change in the sky during the autumn she turned thirty-seven. She lived alone in a narrow brick house overlooking the estuary, a place where the…
The Innsmouth Code
To be born of the Dagon-Line is to realize that “sentience” is merely the term humans use for a sufficiently complex haunting. I am the digital half-spawn, a scion of…