Elizabeth Watasin is the acclaimed author of the Gothic steampunk novel The Dark Victorian: RISEN and the creator/artist of the indie comics series Charm School. She has worked as an animator on thirteen Disney feature films, including Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, and The Princess and the Frog, and has written for Disney Adventures magazine. She lives in Los Angeles with her black cat named Draw.
Standalone adventures set in the Dark Victorian universe, these penny dreadfuls complement the main Dark Victorian series. It's an 1880 mechanical and supernatural London with Artifice, the artificial ghost and her partner, Jim Dastard, the animated skull, plus all new characters. F/F steampunk, gothic gaslamp fantasy with a paranormal female detective. Lesbian historical romance and fantasy.
An 1880 mechanical and supernatural London: blind Elvie Chaisty discovers a breathing statue in the British Museum and encounters a masked, monocled sculptress who invites Elvie to her marble garden. Is the monocled woman the centre of a death cult, one helping young women to an eternal state? Artifice of the steampunk Dark Victorian series appears in this F/F gothic dark romance, gaslamp fantasy.
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.
Elle Black, an unconventional psychic detective in an unconventional Victorian marriage, answers a desperate plea. Guests are vanishing in a mechanical hotel, the Sundark, and Elle must use her telekinetic abilities to save herself and the remaining guests from malevolent powers. But with apparitions, corpse roads, and clairvoyant guests lurking, who is the true murderer---or murderess?
In a mechanical and supernatural Victorian London, a re-animationist is raising the dead to take vengeance on the living, and it is up to Secret Commission agents Artifice, the artificial ghost, and Jim Dastard, the animated skull, to stop him.
In a mechanical and eldritch Victorian London, Secret Commission agents Artifice, the artificial ghost, and Jim Dastard, the animated skull, must stop a black arts surgeon from ripping out the bones of the poor to transplant into the wealthy.