5 stories
Around the World in 80 Days -A Retelling
Comedic, heartwarming retelling set in the year 1900 with a different route. Phileas Fogg goes on a journey with his valet Passepartout to assist and journalist Reginald Vidor to document his trip. A queer retelling.
The Wolfman
Larry returns to his Welsh ancestral home from the US upon learning that his brother has died. When he tries to save Jenny, a rural girl who is being attacked by a werewolf, he gets bitten by it.
Murder on the Orient Express
Reimagining of Agatha Christie's classic story of "Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the famous Orient Express in its tracks as it travels through the mountainous Balkans. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year but, by the morning, it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside." - Goodreads
A New Life
The New Life is the 2023 debut novel of British writer Tom Crewe. It is a work of historical fiction set in 1890s London and tells the story of two men collaborating on a study favouring civil rights for what were then called "sexual inverts" and now as the gay community. The work is a historical imagining of LGBT rights before the late 20th century gay rights movement.
Drapetomania or Lovers
Two slaves fall in love and escape bondage together.
