Six Peculiar Tales

Harandon Hall has been besieged by the most dreadful poltergeist phenomena, occurring at the most peculiar time. Professor Atticus Carr of the Institute for the Investigation of Peculiarities, and his assistant Jeremiah Boone, must use all of their wits and all the paranormal technology at their disposal to purge the castle of its trio of dueling spectres.

A classic ghost story brimming with horror, fantasy, and weird science, set in a steampunk world.

A young woman has disappeared. Her twin sister has seen her spirit wandering the streets. Convinced her sister is still alive and not a ghost, she engages Professor Atticus Carr of the Institute for the Investigation of Peculiarities. Together they visit an unusual psychic medium, Madame Jeanette, who specializes in ‘traveling’ - the peculiar science of 'out of body' conveyance.

A séance reveals clues to the missing girl’s whereabouts, setting in motion a desperate hunt for her abductor. What Professor Carr finds in a deserted warehouse tests the boundaries of the paranormal, resulting in a confrontation with a deranged doctor who collects young women’s souls like butterflies.

In a sleepy hamlet in the country of Aquitaine, townsfolk have been abducted by daemons of the night. With his village terrorized, the Burgher of Suddenville calls upon Professor Atticus Carr of the Institute for the Investigation of Peculiarities to identify the nature of the night crawlers. Equipped with the latest instruments of his paranormal trade, Professor Carr delves into a mystery steeped in mythology. Answers lay in the origins of an ancient urn and with a mysterious woman visited nightly by one of the daemons. Can Professor Carr unlock a portal into another dimension and rescue the villagers before they are lost in the aether forever?

A tale of fantasy and horror in the steampunk world of Professor Atticus Carr.

A dragon is eating the Queen's corgis. The problem is, in steampunk Britannia, there are no dragons. What is this monster? And where did it come from? When Professor Atticus Carr of the Institute for the Investigation of Peculiarities, and his assistant Jeremiah Boone, are called in by the Palace to investigate they follow the monster's bloody trail and uncover a secret that threatens the social order. Inside one of the royal residences is a laboratory called The Darwin Room, where diabolical experiments are underway to advance the theory of evolution.

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Does your heart beat faster in the dark than in the daylight? Do your hands tingle under the touch of copper and brass? Then The Most Peculiar Tales are sure to satisfy. Six paranormal tales set in a steampunk world.

From the pomp of The Imperial Quarter to the slums of Pritchard’s Green. From the furnaces and ironworks of The Barrens to The Theatre Macabre. Join Professor Carr and Jeremiah Boone on six amazing adventures as they unravel metaphysical mysteries, battle deranged scientists and diabolical daemons, and travel through the aether.

Professor Atticus Carr is accused of murdering a rich aristocrat he’d never met, in a place he’d never been before or traveled since, at a time when he lay sick with fever. But the evidence against him is overwhelming. Witnesses attest to the professor’s attendance at the crime scene and to his exact description, down to the details of his famous goatee and wearing the theatrical clothes that made him a celebrity as an illusionist at the Theatre Macabre.

Professor Carr proclaims his innocence and surmises he fell victim to a deranged doctor whose Trans-Aural Topographical Machine duplicated the professor’s face, allowing him to abscond with the professor’s identity.

As The Reversible Man initiates more high crimes, how can Professor Carr exonerate himself before he’s hung for murder?

To say the Theatre Macabre is not an establishment of considerable import, not just in Londinium but in the entire world of the performing arts, would be a crime of impropriety. And speaking of crime, the theatre has, on more than one occasion, been the site of murder and mayhem.

This is one of those tales. A tale of intrigue and espionage, a tale of ghostly wanderings and magical interventions, rooted in a tale of lost love.

With help from the aether, Jeremiah Boone, assistant to Professor Atticus Carr of the Institute for the Investigation of the Peculiarities, revisits a personal tragedy in the hunt for an assassin preparing to strike at the Imperial Family during a performance at the Theatre Macabre.