Dreadful: A Retrospective

The first edition cover for The Dreadful Doctor Faust. Poor Louise, lying down on the job.

This morning, I added the final few lines to Bride of Doctor Faust, the rather long-awaited sequel to The Dreadful Doctor Faust. As I did so, I started thinking about the series’ long, weird history, and I thought it might fascinate a few of my readers and fans to see inside the creation of the books.

Near the end of 2010 I finished a novella called The Dreadful Doctor Faust. It was an all-organic, spon...