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I Penny Dreadful Vittoriani OscuriSerie
Entrate nel mondo ombroso dell'Inghilterra vittoriana, dove segreti e desideri si nascondono sotto una facciata patinata. Questa serie esplora le intense e spesso pericolose relazioni tra donne in un'epoca di rigidi vincoli sociali e passioni nascoste. Aspettatevi un mix di fantasy gaslamp, intrigo psicologico e romance oscuro che esplora le complessità dell'amore e dell'ossessione in un'epoca passata.
"Thee, of stars"A ship of dead with iced men who shatter; The Terror sails into the Port of London during England's worst winter, bringing insidious ice fog and a hidden killer. Secret Commission agents, Artifice, the artificial ghost, and Jim Dastard, the animated skull, track their murderer to the frozen Thames' Frost Fair, only for Art to discover a deadlier danger--one involving the women she holds dear.
Blind Elvie Chaisty discovers a breathing British Museum marble and soon more "living" statues appear in London. Meanwhile, a masked, monocled sculptress invites guests to her provocative marble garden, to be experienced by touch alone. The rich and the specially invited Elvie are enchanted by the sculpted bodies that can be discerned beneath their hands until one visitor dares to make a deadly discovery. Journalist Helia Skycourt and her stick for hire, Ellie Hench, must find out: is the monocled woman the centre of a death cult, one helping young women to an eternal state? Helia and Ellie race to solve the mystery before the sculptress's fascination for Elvie seduces Elvie into her marble garden, permanently. With a special appearance by Artifice, artificial ghost and heroine of the steampunk Dark Victorian series, MEDUSA is a gothic, romantic horror set in an 1880, mechanical and supernatural London. An F/F lesbian historical dark romance and gaslamp fantasy. "Masterful. A vivid world of myth, mystery and Victorian magic." Felicity Kates, author of the Steam Bunny, The Little Miss Kick-Ass series "A delightful girly-Gothic romance, inventive, sensuous and thrilling; Dracula's Daughter by way of Hellboy. An absolute joy." Amelia Mangan, writer of the macabre: Drag Noir, Phobophobias, and the upcoming Release.