The New Bedlam Project follows the adventures of numerous and sundry characters found in the past, present and future of one messed up little town. Originally started as a companion piece to the Courting Morpheus anthology, the webzine has taken on a life of its own. We publish several short stories and a selection of poetry in each quarterly . . .
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BEHOLD! The most THRILLING tales ever committed to the inter-net! OBSERVE! As Victorian adventurer and gentle-man of action, Lord Likely, solves BAFFLING mysteries and battles TERRIFYING foes! GASP! As Lord Likely and his hapless man-servant, Botter, encounter killer prostitutes, undead gentlemen, female pirates and HORRIFYING beasts! THRILL! As Likely beds a succession of gorgeous females, while keeping . . .
Street is a fast-paced online/print cyberpunk thriller about a woman alone in a dystopian future, Gina, working to make ends meet like the rest of the new underclass — by taking a powerful drug that gives her telepathic abilities. She skirts the edges of sanity when she takes a job she knows she really shouldn’t, and finds herself embroiled deeper . . .
Full Dark City is a blog I just started last week. The story follows homicide detective Jack Dillon as he tries to solve the murder of his ex-girlfriend Kate Riley. In what I hope will be a kind of futuristic film noir thriller, Jack Dillon will battle corruption and himself as he tracks a killer. As of this post there . . .
A federal hate crimes investigator is sent to Johnstown, PA, his hometown, to assist in the investigation of a string of murders with a racial bias motivation. Going home leads him to confront a past that he has tried to forget. . . .
Murder In Skin City is a noir murder mystery set in the near future. The interesting thing is, the protagonist is a robot. In fact, most of the main characters are robots. Imagine a hard-boiled detective tale mixed with an exploration of the evolution of Artificial Intelligence. There will be plenty of action, suspense, a mystery, and a sprinkling . . .
Thistledown Copperbottom is a cat living in Columbus, Ohio with his person, Tabitha Silverstein. When his best friend’s owner is murdered Thistle promises to help him find the killer, dragging Tabitha along for the ride. . . .
Elizabeth returns to RoYds; an Agency that investigates the paranormal. A bit rich of RoYds really, especially when they have several ghosts and a pair of fallen angels on their staff. Then again, Whituth is no ordinary town, nor Refuge of Delayed Souls your every day ghost story. . . .
Veteran detective Jake Burleigh is chosen to solve a case using an amazing new technology. It’s only after he finishes the job that the real mysteries begin. Strangers in the Brain is a mysterious detective noir blended with a delirious, dreamlike sci-fi twist. . . .
Reinvention is a rite of passage for a teenager, and Adele, or Ivy, or whatever she’s calling herself today, is no exception. Newly shackled with a devastating family secret, she boards a bus to the City by the Bay and makes a go of it on her own—but being a runaway isn’t easy. . . .
Joseph is a night clerk at a motel located in the middle of nowhere. When a father and his eight-year-old son arrive in the night, they are in search of a man named Shepherd, a man they have never met yet believe can help them where all others have failed. Is Joseph that man, and if so, will he put . . .
Told in the style of classic pulp fiction and film noir, each week you can catch up on the latest in the adventures of none other than Samuel Swift, a private eye with a penchant for cases that are dark, dreary, and fraught with more than a touch of the supernatural. . . .
Jack O’Reilly lives in a world divided up by feudal news media “super powers”. Advertising is dead, instead online newspapers make their money selling personal secrets. As associate director of director of Activist Issues it’s his job to go through the Destructibles—print publications put out by radicals—and identify threats to the system. . . .
“The New Bedlam Project” is a web zine based around the town of New Bedlam and its inhabitants. Each short story or poem tells a tale of this strange, haunted, and possibly cursed small town. The stories vary in length between one screenful of text and several pages. If you like horror or dark, urban fairy tales, you’ll probably find [more . . .]
Andy Fanton is barking mad. That’s the first thing you need to know about "The Astonishing Adventures of Lord Likely."
The second thing you need to know is that he has a mastery of the pseudo-Victorian that, as a pseudo-Victorian myself, I envy intensely. (I’m not kidding, Andy has the tone [more . . .]