"You blame me for all the sorrows that have befallen Russia?"
The Witch-Queen laughed, revealing a mouth filled with gleaming iron teeth. "You awakened ME and the Great Dragons with your accursed hydrogen bomb, blasting a hole through the spirit world--and now, you must live with the consequences!"
--Baba Yaga to Josef Stalin.

Much to his surprise, Sam Smith wakes in a bedroom tastefully decorated in the style of the Victorian Era; but to his confusion, the walls of the chamber are carved from granite bedrock, as though the room was somewhere deep underground while Sam is wearing expensive white silk pajamas. Even more confusing is that a new suit of clothes have been ( Read more... )

Sam Smith, a former gunslinger, gambler, and federal marshal arrives in Virginia City in the year 1877. Encountering Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday at the gambling tables, Sam mentions that the death of his friend, Wild Bill Hickock a year earlier has severely troubled him--and for this reason, Sam Smith has decided to hang up his guns and retire. ( Read more... )

Imagine an endless labyrinth of underground caves, caverns, tunnels, and mine shafts which extends to the very center of the world ( Read more... )

Had an interesting epiphany concerning Goblin technology. What if the reason why their steampunk technology works is that it uses magical theorems based on non-Euclidean geometry ( Read more... )

I'm having fun creating the alternate history for the "Empire of Mirrors" universe, a Steampunk fantasy where the British Empire never fell and is ruled by two queens: a rejuvenated Queen Victoria and the Clockwork Empress, the Queen of the Faerie Folk. In this universe, the Great War ended in 1917 in a truce between Britain and Prussia while ( Read more... )

There is a place where even the Gods fear to tread ( Read more... )

There is a place where the Gods went to die ( Read more... )

As a mortal trapped in the Realm of Faerie, Sam Smith is forced to depend on magical devices for his own survival. Here are his favorite devices:

Enchanted Firearms: Sam Smith carries an enchanted pair of double-action .45 Colt Peacemakers with nickel plating and custom-fitted grips. Vivienne Underhill later makes him a 12-gauge shotgun and a ( Read more... )

Physical Description: Charming, seductive, and deadly, Poppy Nightshade is a spy and assassin employed by Queen Bloodrose and is a master of illusion, deception, intrigue, and disguise. One of the Daoine Sidhe, Poppy is one of the most beautiful Faeries of the Unseelie Court and is slim and athletic in build with a pale but healthy complexion like ( Read more... )