Category: Fiction

139 posts

• The Hotel Mirrormere 26 July 2026

  Behind Brighton’s peeling seafront, the Hotel Mirrormere keeps its curtains drawn and its memories carefully labelled. Its owner, Verity Voss, is a jaded immortal who hoards tapes, photographs, letters, and rumours…

• The Waiting Half 23 June 2026

  Jimmy Cole imports cheap clothes and thinks he understands the cost of wanting things. In Cebu, he meets Marisol: clever, attentive, beautiful, and carrying an old story he is too charmed to hear. When he brings her to…

• A Scabrous Introduction to The Time of Pox; or, The Viscount’s Last Clean Shirt 23 June 2026

  A retro Restoration comedy in four acts, performed for the diversion of the Crown, by your most obedient and plague-avoiding bard.

• THE DAMP ASCENSION 23 June 2026

  In “The Call of the Codfather,” the Children of Thalassor, a declining cult, meet covertly beneath a fish bar, struggling to invoke their drowned god, Thalassor. When reluctant scion Billy Pike returns for a funeral, he…

• THE LEDGER OF BENEVOLENT ASCENSION 23 June 2026

  When independent accountant H. B. Carrow is hired to examine the books of a charitable occult religion, he expects hidden income, improper deductions, and perhaps a little clerical fraud. Instead, he finds a devotional…

• The Bloodless Audit #14 23 June 2026

  Chapter Fourteen: Closure Notice The case closed on a Friday because cases liked Fridays. That was one of Lydia Venn’s smaller professional beliefs. Bad news preferred Monday mornings because management…

• The Bloodless Audit #11#12#13 23 June 2026

  Chapter Eleven: The Route Archive The Route Archive was not a depot. That was the first useful disappointment. Mark had expected buses. Leah had expected buses. Caz had expected something…

• The Bloodless Audit #8#9#10 23 June 2026

  Chapter Eight: Public Interest Judith Vale chose the bus station. This disappointed everyone. Leah had expected a courthouse, a newspaper office, a church, perhaps some half-forgotten municipal chamber where oaths…

• The Bloodless Audit #5#6#7 23 June 2026

  Chapter Five: The Authority Above The ambulance did not go to hospital. That was the first twist, though Lydia did not learn it until later. At the time she was…

• The Bloodless Audit #4 23 June 2026

  Chapter 4 Error Margin

• The Bloodless Audit #3 23 June 2026

  Chapter 3 Contributor Status

• The Bloodless Audit #2 23 June 2026

  Part 2, Depth

• The Bloodless Audit #1 23 June 2026

  In The Bloodless Audit, routine public-sector procurement becomes the doorway into a hidden national horror. Lydia Venn, a precise and stubborn council auditor, is asked to review a social-care contract whose invoices…

• The Trial Verdict 23 June 2026

  When Dr. Elspeth Vale is hired to locate a forgotten 1950s BBC courtroom drama, she expects the usual maze of lost listings, vanished tapes, and unreliable memory. Her patron, Lionel Frax, insists he saw The Trial…

• The Fourth Mother 23 June 2026

  When Dr. Elspeth Vale receives an impossible message naming her dead mother as “Ursula,” her ordered life of archives, evidence, and contaminated objects begins to fracture. The message points not only to a hidden…

• The Night Trade 23 June 2026

  Gary Bell is bankrupt, exhausted, and finished with fine dining when Janet Finn offers him a way out: run a 24-hour franchise garage, shop and takeaway in Coldmere, a northern coastal town with steady passing trade and…

• RED VARNEY: OR, THE TERROR OF SEVEN DIALS 29 April 2026

  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…

• Red Velvet 19 April 2026

  Red Velvet Summary A dark literary thriller about a woman archivist drawn into the shadow world of elite collectors, notorious objects, secret rooms, and the dangerous men who believe power…

• The Vale Dairies 19 April 2026

  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 Plenty Below 19 April 2026

  The Plenty Below – An Adventure A three-session campaign for Call of Cthulhu, 7th Edition — 2 to 5 Investigators Keeper’s Introduction The fens of Cambridgeshire are not natural. They…