Burton & Swinburne, Macallister Fogg, the Jacobus Family and other stories by Mark Hodder.
Sir Richard Francis Burton discovers that history has veered off course, an arch-meddler is at work, and a cabal of insane scientists intends to make the most of it!
A long lost peer returns from the dead and, though he's obviously not the man he claims to be, everyone believes him! Meanwhile, wraiths haunt the streets of rioting London and a spirit from the future plots the fall of the Empire!
Burton & Swinburne journey into the heart of Africa and into the darkest depths of time in a race to find a diamond of unimaginable power!
The ruling elite have become immortal, detention centres have been erected in London’s parks, and Burton & Swinburne are about to confront an echo from out of time!
A powerful psychic from a parallel history sets out to bring the British Empire to its knees. His first target: the King!
Spring Heeled Jack has returned and there’s only one way to defeat him: Burton and his allies must travel into the distant future in order to change the past!
Inadequate priest Aiden Fleischer and his loyal companion Clarissa Stark are transported to an alien world where their every thought inspires devoted mimicry. In no time at all, a faux London is created and they find themselves living in a bizarre "home from home." However, the planet Ptallaya has a secret, and when its giant red sun rises, it illuminates the startling and deadly truth!
Brand new short stories featuring Burton, Swinburne, and their allies, plus articles, interviews, and fragments.
The first officially sanctioned Sexton Blake novel for nearly half a decade! Blake and his plucky assistant Tinker must avert a plot to steal a priceless artefact that has the power to spark a crisis in the Middle East!
A second compendium of new short stories featuring Burton, Swinburne, and their allies, plus interviews, articles, and other material of interest.
An elderly and ailing Sir Richard Francis Burton is distraught when a provocative chapter from his greatest unpublished work is stolen. Swinburne calls in Sherlock Holmes to investigate.
The world is crumbling around William Cornish — in the grip of entropic forces he cannot comprehend. In a nearby abandoned rail yard, a strange individual known as The Beetle might have some answers.
In the years before Sherlock Holmes moved into it, Baker Street was known as "the street of detectives." Macallister Fogg was definitely not foremost among its residents, yet he was very possibly the most interesting of them all. Here, he battles to prevent the resurrection of an Egyptian god.
Macallister Fogg is in the middle of inventing a carpet-cleaning suction device. It’s hardly surprising, then, that he considers the arrival of a vampire to be a terrible inconvenience.
Macallister Fogg wakes up in the future, falls asleep and regains his senses back in his own 1855, and then gets possessed by a nefarious ancestor!
Zenith battles for possession of a ring that rightfully belongs to him but which he’s not certain he even wants. One thing he’s sure of, though: no one else should have it!
When a copywriter is wrongly accused of plagiarism, his revenge is extreme and gruesome. Not for the squeamish!
He’s in an asylum. He wants his hat. He really, really wants his hat.
Jacobus is dead. He’s a ghost. So what exactly is he supposed to do?
Where was Hufferton Hall and what might be found amid its ruins? Are you sure you want to know?
Set in the distant future, this tells of the second fall of Earth ...
A cabal of black magicians are on a crime spree. Burton & Swinburne set out to defeat them ... but at what cost?
Mark Hodder is the author of the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel THE STRANGE AFFAIR OF SPRING HEELED JACK and its seven sequels, and of the first officially sanctioned Sexton Blake novel to have been published in nearly half a century (he created and maintains BLAKIANA: The Sexton Blake Resource). He also writes short stories, flash fiction and vignettes. Find out more on his Patreon page. Mark was born in the UK. He has worked as a commercial radio scriptwriter, a freelance copywriter, and as a web content producer for the BBC. Since 2009, he has lived in Valencia, Spain, where he writes full-time. He and his partner have twins, Luca and Iris.
