The Hollow Earth and other steampunk stories

[stevensavile]

I grew up fascinated by the adventures of Jules Verne and stories like Around the World in 80 Days and always wished I'd lived in that era, where gentlemen were extraordinary and there really was a hint of magic in the promise of discovery. Last year I wrote a cycle of stories, 30,000 words in total, about the way Victorian London might have been - at least the version of it in my head, where magic was possible, where the old rhyme Oranges and Lemons has special significance, and where love isn't always a happy ending... It's been out on the Kindle for a week now, and I love the fact that people are getting to connect with the Greyfriar's Gentlemen.

US LINK:

http://www.amazon.com/Hollow-Stories...7693727&sr=8-1

THE HOLLOW EARTH is an authentic, atmospheric throwback to the Victorian London of heavy fogs and Hansom Cabs, gasogenes and private Gentleman's Clubs; when Britannia ruled and gentleman's gentlemen were almost as common as gentlemen - the nostalgically revered London of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Professor Moriarty and Jack The Ripper.

"Savile makes sure to give these gentleman protectors of the natural world all they can handle with some choice villains; from the evil human Necromancer, Nathaniel Parker, to the demon, Meringias, that acts as a sort of Captain and advance scout for the huge mass of horrors currently imprisoned within the bowels of the Earth (hence the Chapbook's title), that Parker seeks to set free upon an unsuspecting and very unprepared humanity, to a truly unforgettable and horrid homunculus. There are no wasted words in this fast-moving story. Savile manages to successfully evoke a wonderful sense of atmosphere and place, while contemporaneously managing to constantly build the conflict and tension, and swiftly move the action forward to a satisfying conclusion. The book, as is the Greyfriar's Gentleman's Club, is a successful m?lange of a Victorian English version of X-Files and Torchwood, with perhaps just a soup?on of Arthur Machen for flavor." Fear Zone

This edition contains the stories The Hollow Earth, A Madness of Ravens, and The Mechanisms of Grief.


UK LINK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hollow-Stori...7694006&sr=1-5

I should say, because it's new I've decided I want to share it rather than make scads of cash, so have priced it low at 71p/99c because right now it's just so cool that I can decide what I want to be out there in a way that I never could before.