The Aether and the Dark: A Victorian Occult Adventure
London, 1895. The British Empire spans a quarter of the world. Steam and electricity are remaking civilization. Gentlemen explore the poles and darkest Africa. Jules Verne's ether ships are real, if secret. The hollow earth has been mapped by those who dare. Mars waits beyond the void, ancient and watching. Beneath the drawing rooms and gentlemen's clubs of London, the lodges war in secret. The Golden Dawn practices Enochian magic in Hammersmith. The Theosophists commune with Mahatmas in Bloomsbury. Crowley schemes in Chelsea. The Secret Chiefs are real — or something claiming to be them is. Magic works. Not always. Not for everyone. But it works. The world is larger and stranger than the newspapers admit. Your story begins the moment you discover how much larger.
About The Aether and the Dark: A Victorian Occult Adventure
London, 1895. The British Empire spans a quarter of the world. Steam and electricity are remaking civilization. Gentlemen explore the poles and darkest Africa. Jules Verne's ether ships are real, if secret. The hollow earth has been mapped by those who dare. Mars waits beyond the void, ancient and watching. Beneath the drawing rooms and gentleme...Read more