Tales of the Gothic and Supernatural: From Casebook Silas Thorne

A detective's casebook. A city of shadows. A world where the supernatural refuses to stay politely in the dark. Step into late Victorian London through the eyes of Captain Silas Thorne-soldier, sceptic, and consulting detective of the uncanny. >Joined by the steadfast Sergeant George Harper, the sharp-witted Miss Melinda Farrow, and the enigmatic Duke Nicholas De Rochefort, Thorne confronts a parade of impossible phenomena: haunted rooms that whisper, rituals that hollow out men's souls, spectral knights in foreign alleyways, and river-born creatures older than industry itself. >- A barbershop where guilt is shaved away-along with something far more vital - A Regent Street flat plagued by ghostly pie-thieves and whispering walls - A ritual of Enochian magic that threatens to unmake a man from the inside out - Industrial folklore rising from the Tyne in monstrous, amphibious form - Templar spirits haunting a blood-soaked alley in Vienna >Blending gothic horror, mystery, and sly humour, this collection expands into a wider world of Victorian myth, featuring appendices on legends such as Sweeney Todd, the Devil's Vanity of Strasbourg, the Sewer Pigs of London, and the haunted history of the Tyne Staiths. Perfect for readers of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, The Essex Serpent, and classic Victorian ghost stories, this volume invites you into a London where every shadow hides a secret-and every secret has teeth.