The Good Work: DeadSteam II Dreadpunk Anthology Is Here

The monsters are witches, real or suspected, and/or 1850s (i.e. after the 1843 publication of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and the new popularization of celebrating Christmas) London street urchins. Thus my description to Editor Bryce Raffle when I sent it in.

The story: “The Good Work,” originally published in BLURRING THE LINE (Cohesion Press, 2015), and the anthology, DEADSTEAM II (see October 27, September 27), A delightful collection of dreadpunk HORROR stories, to quote from the back cover. Think Penny Dreadfuls. . . . full of vampires, zombies, witches, and so much more. And so, my part in it another witch story (see post just below, December 3), but this time in Victorian England instead of 18th century Spain.

Or, from Amazon’s blurb: Just when you thought the nightmare was over, what was dead comes crawling back from the beyond. We warned you not to open that fateful tome. But you just couldn’t resist, could you?

Back with more chilling tales of the dark and supernatural, the anthology of dreadpunk, gaslamp, and dark steampunk returns to haunt you with mummies, witches, vampires, gorgons, ghosts. The second installment in the DeadSteam series from Grimmer & Grimmer Books, DEADSTEAM II promises an even darker, grimmer gothic than the first offering.

My part in the original DEADSTEAM, incidentally, was “The Re-Possessed” (cf. November 9, September 15 2018, et al.), also Victorian London set and originally published in CEMETERY RIOTS (Elysium Press, 2016). And now there’s a sequel — that is for the book, the stories themselves otherwise unrelated — for details and/or ordering of which one may press here.