The Girl and the Clockwork Cat by Nikki McCormack
Feisty teenage thief Maeko and her maybe-more-than-friend Chaff have scraped out an existence in Victorian London’s gritty streets, but after a near-disastrous heist leads her to a mysterious clockwork...
View ArticleThe Girl and the Clockwork Cat chapter one, by Nikki McCormack
The Girl and the Clockwork Cat – Chapter One by Nikki McCormack The windowsill ground into Maeko’s ribs. Grabbing hold with both hands, she pushed her toes against Chaff’s palms and lifted high enough...
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Steampunk Journal visits A Splendid Day Out in Morecambe
Morecambe is a small, Victorian built coastal town in the North West situated next to Lancaster and bordering the sprawling Lake District. It’s a great place for setting up camp for adventures into the...
View ArticleImperialists build multi-dimensional rift to go back to unified Commonwealth...
After the recent referendum by the Commonwealth on whether to remain as part of a united Empire failed, Great Britain faces the dark abyss of breaking up from it’s former glorious union and being back...
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The Vitruvian Heir book review
Introduction The Vitruvian Heir is a novel written by K.S. Kilroy. Set in a future America where natural disasters followed by famine have decimated the population allowing for an Empire to rise. Now...
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Steampunk event entertainer seeks help
In June I visited Morecambe for the A Splendid Day Out weekend. It was a wonderful event and you can read about it by following this link: A Splendid Day Out event review. One of the entertainers we...
View ArticleArachnodactyl by Danny Knestaut
Ikey wanted to stay on the farm and care for the uncle who made him a master mechanic, but a lost bet with the Admiral changed everything. Forced to accompany the Admiral to Whitby, Ikey is soon in...
View ArticleProfessor Elemental reworks I’m British
Professor Elemental – the well spoken lyricist and dapper young gent around town – has released a remix of one of his most popular tracks and it’s splendid! Well… it’s not “Splendid” splendid, because...
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Kat Robichaud’s Misfit Cabaret presents Whimsea
Photography by Mike Lloyd I’ve been contacted by Kat Robichaud of The Misfit Cabaret recently. She wanted to let Steampunk Journal readers – that’s you – know about the new show that she will be...
View ArticleKat Robichaud and the Misfit Cabaret promo video
See Kat and the gang as they perform in their show Whimsea which is coming to the Great Star Theatre in San Francisco on 14th, 15th and 16th July, 2016.
View ArticleArachnodactyl chapter one by Danny Knestaut
Chapter One Mud squelched under several pairs of approaching boots—more boots than Ikey normally heard on his dad’s farm. He sat back on his heels. The toes of his own boots pressed further into the...
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Fireside Games releases Dastardly Dirigibles board game
Professor Phineas Edmund Hornswoggle, famed airship builder, is retiring and you are an engineer competing to inherit the Hornswoggle factory! Build your airship from different parts of 9 beautiful...
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Gothic Fantasy Science Fiction Short Stories book review
Introduction You may remember that I ran a competition a couple of years ago. It was won by an aspiring author by the name of Nemma Wollenfang. Her story, Clockwork Evangeline, followed the short life...
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*EXCLUSIVE* Sneak Peek preview of The Imaginarium Trilogy (Eva’s Story) by...
Expert photographer and friend of the Journal Gary Nicholls has sent me an exclusive two page preview of his much anticipated book “The Imaginarium – Eva’s Story”. The book centres around the life of...
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My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum, by Herman Charles Merivale; 1879
My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum, by Herman Charles Merivale; 1879; Chatto and Windus, London. In February 1875, the barrister and author Herman Charles Merivale (1839-1906) was committed to...
View ArticleSilent Meridian by Elizabeth Crowens
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is obsessed with a legendary red book. Its peculiar stories have come to life, and rumors claim that it has rewritten its own endings. Convinced that possessing this book will...
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Sci-Fi, Cosplay, Steampunk, and Console Communities Excited by End-of-Summer...
Press release: Sci-Fi, Cosplay, Steampunk, and Console Communities Excited by End-of-Summer Finale (PRNewsFoto/Infinicon) DALLAS, July 25, 2016 – Costumes, performances, gaming, and discussion panels...
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Steam Squad comes to PC/Mac/Linux and (obviously) Steam
Saint-Petersburg – July 28, 2016: Enemies have landed on the shores of California and are quickly approaching San-Francisco. Only you can stop them, and march your units and machinery over destroyed...
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Steampunks remain awfully polite after Crexit
British Empire Union World War I poster from 1918, titled “Once a German—always a German!” (Photo credit: Wikipedia) After the recent exit from the Empire – dubbed Crexit – British steampunks have...
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