Three Gothic Doctors and Their Sons

by Joey Madia

What if an ambitious young surgeon in the early twentieth century found the journals of doctors Jekyll, Frankenstein, and Moreau?'

Based on three horror classics by Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Shelley, and HG Wells, Three Gothic Doctors and Their Sons introduces Judah Philemon Stanton, an occultist and journalist for the Pall Mall Gazette and Evening Standard. Friend of Dr. John Watson, JM Barrie, Dracula’s Quincey Morris and Jack Seward, and investigator of the Jack the Ripper Murders, Stanton’s pursuit of a mad surgeon and his monstrous creation takes him to the Isle of Man, Portugal, and HH Holmes’s Chicago Murder Castle. Along the way, he encounters infamous 1930s serial killers, a fallen angel, and Simeon Ravenskald—patriarch of the world’s most sinister and powerful family.'

Three Gothic Doctors and Their Sons began in 2014 as a stage musical written by Joey Madia, with music by Knight Berman, Jr., which debuted at Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia. It will soon return with a new, expanded version for the stage and screen.

About The Stanton Chronicles
The Stanton Chronicles combines extensive historical research with mystery and the paranormal to weave a fact-based fantasy of Global Empire and the multinational corporations and secret organizations that have ruled it from time immemorial.

237 pages, Paperback

Published February 17, 2021

About the author

Joey Madia is a writer, actor, director, Escape Room designer, educator, and historical education specialist. His Chautauqua portrayals include Captain Louis Emilio, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, “Black” Samuel Bellamy, Mariano Vallejo, and Allen Ginsberg. His one-man show and three novels on the Golden Age of Piracy, “The Cannon and the Quill,” have been entertaining and educating audiences for six years and were featured in North Carolina Travel and on the Japanese television program “Passage of Dreams,” sponsored by Tokyo Disney. Many of his seven novels and twenty-eight plays and musicals are based on true stories or extensive historical research. His four immersive escape rooms—in North Carolina, Scotland, and West Virginia—are based on historical events. Two of Joey’s commissioned screenplays have won awards and he is currently writing a fifth screenplay for a Hollywood producer.
Joey is cowriter, with two-time Grammy nominee David Young, of the rock opera Be the Change, and he’s just finished a commissioned musical about the cryptid Mothman and the Silver Bridge Disaster of 1967. His musical, Three Gothic Doctors and their Sons, is being produced for stage, live streaming, and a cinematic version in late 2022.