No Rest for the Wicked: Mistress of None Book 1 Chapter 1 About two miles as the crow flies from Sacramento, California Viola Thorne preferred to bathe by moonlight. Perhaps it was the quiet chirps of the crickets or the … Continue reading Read Ch 1 of No Rest for the Wicked by Phoebe Darqueling
With the release of the new movie Winchester, there’s been quite a bit of renewed interest in the Winchester Mystery House. (See trailer below) This immense puzzle of a Queen Anne Victorian style mansion can be found at 525 S. … Continue reading Ghastly by Gaslight: The Winchester “Mystery House”
Have you ever thought about living forever? Sounds pretty good, but what would it take? The Eterna Files, Book 1 of the Eterna Files series, explores just that question. After the deaths of Abraham Lincoln and Prince Albert, the governments of the UK and the US have assembled teams to try to unlock the key to eternal life. The US team depends on Clara, a woman who is sensitive to the supernatural and remembers all of her past lives. But when the story begins, her team has just been killed in a terrible accident, including Clara’s secret lover Louis. She mourns his death in secret and … Continue reading The Eterna Files by Leanna Renee Hieber Review
Ghost stories appear in the folklore of countries all over the world. But ghosts as we think of them today in America and the UK where the majority of Steampunk stories occur have their roots in Spiritualism. Some people treated … Continue reading The Rise of Ghost Stories in Victorian Literature
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