Hello Lovelies! During a bout with the flu over the holidays, I finally had an opportunity to watch The Aeronauts, a movie about Victorian ballooning adventurers. It was highly advertised in the US, but seemed to get lost in the … Continue reading To the Cinema! An SJ Review of The Aeronauts
Carnival Row – A Steampunk Journal Review by Victoria L. Szulc In 2019, yet another article came out declaring that Steampunk was dead. By the end of the year, steampunk had yet again influenced fashion and entertainment, including Amazon’s Carnival … Continue reading A Review of Carnival Row
Hello Lovelies! I have returned to writing for the Journal after an absence due to formatting changes and book releases. So in playing catch up… This past fall I was delighted to meet several fellow steampunk authors at Penned Con … Continue reading Steampunk Authors at Penned Con 2019
Every first weekend of June, the Lafayette Square neighborhood of St. Louis, MO USA holds its annual summer house and garden tour. I have done this tour several times and it never disappoints. The Painted Ladies Lafayette Square was built … Continue reading Intro to The Lafayette Square House Tour, Steampunk/Victorian Architecture, Home, and Garden – A Steampunk Journal Series
I’ve been fascinated by storms, even after surviving one as a child in my hometown of St. Louis. I’m a storm spotter for the U.S. National Weather Service. I’ve taken some incredible pics of lightning and cloud formations. But my … Continue reading It Was a Disaster! The May 27, 1896 St. Louis Great Cyclone: A Steampunk Journal Series About Unfortunate Events
Chapter 2-The Storm Early Morning, May 27, 1896 The day had started like any other. Kate and Lord Wilson rose early as they had for the last several months. But for the month of May, their early starts had been … Continue reading Get a Sneak Peek at The Storm by Victoria L. Szulc from the “Lafayette to London” the Society Series, v.3
One of steampunk’s more popular storyline settings is the Western (often falling/crossing over into “weird west”). Phoebe Darqueling’s latest, No Rest for the Wicked, is a fresh interpretation of the classic Western. In No Rest, the reader meets Viola, a … Continue reading Review of No Rest for the Wicked by Phoebe Darqueling
Big River Steampunk Spring Faire, Hannibal MO Most Steampunks know that Labor Day weekend is time for the Big River Steampunk Festival, in Hannibal, MO. But this year, the folks at Big River wanted to try out a spring event. … Continue reading Two Big Steampunk Conventions this Weekend in the Midwest
Welcome to the next piece in a series of frights. We’ll explore the famous haunts, monsters, and things that go bump in the night of the 1800’s. In this edition, we head to Norfolk, England to learn about mysterious Brown … Continue reading Ghastly Gaslight Shadows: The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall
