Dispatches from Wondermark Manor, Volume 1 - by David Malki !
Victorian adventure -- an era full of top-hatted intrigue, dirigibles galore, all-too-demure sensuality and completely unironic classism. Now there's an antidote: Dispatches from Wondermark Manor, a rollicking, absurd, completely ridiculous yarn from the author of the…
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Victorian adventure -- an era full of top-hatted intrigue, dirigibles galore, all-too-demure sensuality and completely unironic classism. Now there's an antidote: Dispatches from Wondermark Manor, a rollicking, absurd, completely ridiculous yarn from the author of the celebrated comic strip "Wondermark."
Taking the tropes of Conan Doyle-style adventure fiction and ramping them way over the top, Malki's story brings together:
Ghosts Airships High society intrigue Old men in salt barrels Horses that cannot fly Frightful moustaches aplenty Cheese handling as an artform General bad decisions, and Casual mass murder
All in a stunningly-designed package evocative of the grandest pulp style. Praised by many for its strangeness and wonder, Dispatches from Wondermark Manor is now available for the very first time in a complete, 500-page omnibus edition, including all three volumes of the novels plus a separate prologue, originally published in Malki's book Beards of our Forefathers.
This file contains the complete unabridged Volume 1 of the three-volume set. If you like what you read, visit http://wondermark.com/dispatches for more information on the complete series.
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