Think of what we know about Dickensian times, the 1800s, the industries, the political and social life and new struggles of that historical period, and so on. And now think of what might have happened instead, over the course of some very unusual 1800s, in a very different world, and what we don’t know about that!A world at the time of the first steam engines, full of Victorian intrigues—when the first horseless carriages and many other incredible machines of creation appeared—that wasn’t a safe place nor a simple place…England, other than Europe and the whole world was a dangerous place those years, crowded with strange individuals and bloody mercenaries known for their dark reputation; maybe some of them weren’t even exactly human, or from that same reality, and stumbling into them might quickly turn your life into a sequence of unusual adventures and change you forever while they tried to use your skills for their own ends, indeed.…An Anthology of International Urban Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi and Fantasy Short StoriesbySergio PalumboCurtis MangesJohn David RoseSara DellacasaDavide MarescottiRossana BerrettaR. MorlockeCarlton HerzogErnesto CanepaMichele DutcherRandolph StuartM. S. Swift E. W. FarnsworthIvan ‘BearOld’ BertazzoniCynthia MorrisonKaren BaylyE. W. FarnsworthAlessandro ‘AleckMcroy’ LoiGeoff NelderR.J. RenJohn A. DeLaughterRhys HughesGareth D. Jones
Think of what we know about Dickensian times, the 1800s, the industries, the political and social life and new struggles of that historical period, and so on. And now think of what might have happened instead, over the course of some very unusual 1800s, in a very different world, and what we don’t know about that!A world at the time of the first steam engines, full of Victorian intrigues—when the first horseless carriages and many other incredible machines of creation appeared—that wasn’t a safe place nor a simple place…England, other than Europe and the whole world was a dangerous place those years, crowded with strange individuals and bloody mercenaries known for their dark reputation; maybe some of them weren’t even exactly human, or from that same reality, and stumbling into them might quickly turn your life into a sequence of unusual adventures and change you forever while they tried to use your skills for their own ends, indeed.…An Anthology of International Urban Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi and Fantasy Short StoriesbySergio PalumboCurtis MangesJohn David RoseSara DellacasaDavide MarescottiRossana BerrettaR. MorlockeCarlton HerzogErnesto CanepaMichele DutcherRandolph StuartM. S. Swift E. W. FarnsworthIvan ‘BearOld’ BertazzoniCynthia MorrisonKaren BaylyE. W. FarnsworthAlessandro ‘AleckMcroy’ LoiGeoff NelderR.J. RenJohn A. DeLaughterRhys HughesGareth D. Jones