Under the pseudonym Percival Vale, I’ve been developing a separate gothic weird-fiction project centered around Victorian London, hidden railway systems, impossible architecture, and strange institutional experiments buried beneath the city.
What began as an unusual idea involving ‘Victorian Left-Handed Ferret Mysteries’ evolved into a much larger interconnected setting involving abandoned maintenance corridors, resonance phenomena, secret committees, and architectural horror.
The first novella, The Blackfriars Pawprint, follows a railway investigator assigned to a series of disturbing incidents beneath Blackfriars Station, where passengers report hearing bells inside sealed walls and workers vanish within forgotten tunnels below London.
Future stories expand further into the mythology surrounding the Crystal Palace, Victorian infrastructure, institutional systems, and the strange animal phenomena tied to structural instability throughout the city.
Unlike Echoes of the Night, these stories lean heavily into gothic weird fiction, historical horror, bureaucratic paranoia, and slow-building atmospheric dread.
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