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A family of Victorian science geniuses match wit and weapons against a criminal mastermind in a 19th century that never was.
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19 MAR 2019 · Some updates and news on BRASS, including our next season and information about our companion podcast, BRASS Stacks.
7 FEB 2019 · Lord and Lady Brass rush across London trying to save both a missing child and an abducted poet, while Yeats comes face-to-face with the mysterious Master and learns his occult plans! Bickering cultists, unnatural rituals and the timely return of Loveday Brooke as our BRASS Miniseries comes to an end.
12 DEC 2018 · The Brasses visit the salon of Victorian Renaissance man William Morris, have some harrowing conversations with a firebrand anarchist, and meet a guide to occult London, a young poet with a supernatural bent, William Butler Yeats.
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21 NOV 2018 · Falling Rocks and Flying Knives. Trapped in The Spookhouse, the deathtrap-laden lair of the villainous Peck-in-the-Crown, the Brasses have their ingenuity tested to the shattering point, while a sinister conspiracy stays one step ahead of them.
31 OCT 2018 · Crooks and Nannies: Lord and Lady Brass pay a visit on a grieving widow, and find themselves drawn head-first into the mystery of a missing child.
17 JUL 2018 · As news of the approaching catastrophe spreads, our friends seek escape, while high above the melee, Lord Whitestone attempts a difficult negotiation.
17 JUL 2018
16 JUL 2018 · Even more than Victorian history, the world of BRASS is inspired by the fiction of the 19th and early 20th century. Literary creations like the Phantom of the Opera and Sherlock Holmes rub shoulders with Tesla and Oscar Wilde in our story, creating a mash-up of fiction, history and alternative history which samples from each.
This period was the flowering of many of the greatest writers in the English language, including Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, H. G. Wells and G.K. Chesterton. And it's a special boon that so many of these wonderful authors wrote short stories–indeed, it's where that form found its earliest and most brilliant expression.
These stories and their authors, along with many others more obscure, deserve to be celebrated. And that's what our new podcast, BRASS Stacks, is all about. Each episode will feature a short story from the the Victorian or Edwardian age, narrated by one of our company.
First up is a pair of very short stories from Fifty-One Tales by Lord Dunsany.
Edward Plunkett, the 18th Baron of Dunsany, is primarily remembered today less for his writing and more for who he inspired. His fantasy The King of Elfland's Daughter influenced Tolkien in writing The Lord of the Rings, while his early stories and poetry were a major influence on H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard and other seminal American horror and fantasy writers. And his plays were a vital part of the Irish Literary Movement, where he and Yeats, Lady Gregory and Synge created a new national theater for Ireland.
Dunsany's earliest works include many short fables and tales, each ranging in length from short to very short; some run just a page, in which he manages a surprising amount of profundity and drama. You can listen to two of our favorites in the pilot episode of BRASS Stacks here:
13 JUN 2018 · Ponder and Cyril have a conversation, unwanted guests are rather insistent, and Lord Whitestone performs an aeronautical feat.
22 MAY 2018 · Lord Whitestone makes a purchase, the Brasses contemplate more extreme measures and Ponder Wright visits a street fair.
A family of Victorian science geniuses match wit and weapons against a criminal mastermind in a 19th century that never was.
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| Author | John Longenbaugh |
| Organization | John Longenbaugh |
| Categories | Science Fiction |
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