He was an actor, though not a very good one…other than his own mind. He certainly wasn’t the simple but regal Prince Melos, but he had to pretend to be, to save the lives of the kind women and men who had taken him in. But when the spurious prince arrives at court, after barely dodging two attempts on his life—one before breakfast!—he finds that his troubles are just beginning. Queen Ffazia is on her deathbed—a multitude of ravenous princesses are after his hand in marriage and other body parts for quite different reasons—and the woman he loves cannot possibly love him back; in fact, her former lover is on the way to the castle to murder…someone or other. Add in a line of danci...

Professor George Edward Challenger invents a machine to talk to Martians. Because obviously nothing bad has ever come from his ideas before. Naturally, GEC sends a peremptory summons to his friends to watch the demonstration. What they get instead is an aetheric rift, a threatening Martian entity, and the not-so-surprising realization that Challenger’s “scientific breakthroughs” are, more often than not, indistinguishable from natural disasters.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells meet steampunk adventure!

Classic pulp characters in all-new adventures! Masked crimefighters against evil villains! Join the Domino Lady as she tries to stop the Crimson Dragon! Watch the Phantom Detective investigate the grisly deaths in the Murder Museum!