Sixteen tales to put the steamy back into steampunk.

• Marilag Angway, “Smuggler’s Deal”
• Cherith Baldry, “The Venetian Cat”
• Gio Clairval, “The Writing Cembalo”
• M L D Curelas, “Ironclad”
• Ray Dean, “Practically Perfect”
• Stephanie Gunn, “Escapement”
• Richard Harland, “The Kiss of Reba Maul”
• Rebecca Harwell, “Love in the Time of Clockwork Horses”
• Faith Mudge, “Descension”
• Nicole Murphy, “The Wild Colonial Clockwork Boy”
• Katrina Nicholson, “Lady Presto Magnifico and the Disappearing Glass Ceiling”
• Anthony Panegyres, “The Tic-Toc Boy of Constantinople”
• Amanda Pillar, “A Clockwork Heart”
• Angela Rega, “The Law of Love”
• Carol Ryles, “Siri and the Chaos-Maker”
• DC White, “South, to Glory”

A thrilling steampunk adventure.

The Emerald Key is set in London in 1864 and blends alternate history with elements of horror, mystery and urban fantasy. The game is afoot and Ember Quatermain, the brilliant and courageous daughter of legendary explorer Allan Quatermain, must draw upon all of her abilities in order to save the day. Along the way she encounters dirigibles, the lost tomb of Alexander the Great, and the charming and irresponsible Peter Styles.

Stewart Sternberg’s first novel, The Ravening, was released in 2011 through Elder Signs Press. His work has also found publication in a variety of anthologies (Chaosium Press, Mythos Books) and other venues including White Cat Magazine, and Susurrus.

Christine Daigle (formerly Purcell) is a writer, editor, steampunk enthusiast, and Scrabble demon. Her works have appeared in White Cat Magazine, the Fem-Fangs Anthology (Pill Hill Press), House of Horror, Orbis Quarterly International Literary Journal, Metro Baby, ESC! Magazine, The Copperfield Review, The Loch Raven Review, Third Reader, and other venues.

Second edition of sold out 1997 collection.
“Ghost Seas”
“The Tall Grass”
“The Dinosaur Season”
“Upstart”
“Two Women of the Prairie”
“Race Relations”
“The Electricity of Heaven”
“Dog in the Manger”
“Slices of Sylvia”
“Willow Beeman” (with Howard Waldrop)
“Haiti”
“Michael Bates Michael Bates Michael Bates Michael”
“Look Away”
“Edge of the Wind”

Steven Utley, one of the most promising writers of the seventies, quit at the end of the decade, disillusioned with science fiction. He spent the eighties pursuing other interests, including writing and drawing comic strips and collecting swing-era music. He returned to writing in the late eighties, writing stories unique and powerful, regardless of genre: western, horror, science fiction, history, love, mystery.

Ghost Seas is a collection of fourteen stories from the twenty-five year career of an extremely talented writer.