Gothic Follies. Gothic Follies, #4

Seven tales of gothic erotic peril and passion. Mad scientists. Lightning-torn castles. Steam-powered love machines. Dread monsters. Supernatural demons lurking in ancient mountains. Eager imps and naughty goblins. And fair maidens with friskiness on their minds, pitting their wits and bodies against every erotic challenge. Included in this collection:Goblin Run (23k, available separately)On Midsummer's Morn, the maidens come from afar, eager to try the Goblin Run and win a husband.
A simple task it might seem, for all a girl needs to do to win is walk a thousand barefoot paces to the cathedral on the top of the hill and claim her man. But she had better not walk. She had better pick up her skirts, free her legs and RUN. Just as fast as she can. Because the goblins are on her trail.The Becoming (4k, new to this collection)Society reporter Archibald Cutwater reports all the developments of the Becoming Season, where society ladies queue to take part in debauchery with the greatest and most powerful innovations of the Industrial Revolution.
Tonight Miss Emma Bulstrode meets the steam-powered Armstrong Concentrator, to the delight of all present, not least the willing Miss Bulstrode herself.Frank (17k, available separately)Good work is hard to find in 19th Century Bavaria. And assisting a sinister scientist in his lightning-swept castle laboratory is definitely not good work. So when Heidi Klein enters the service of a man hell-bent on creating monstrous life from bitter death, she knows she is assisting him with dread experiments which may be demeaning, dangerous, even downright embarrassing.
But in deciding to make the best of her situation, the last thing Heidi expects is to become emotionally involved with the massive creature slumbering on that cold laboratory slab.Flapjack (3k, new to this collection)The Becoming Season reaches its peak, and society reporter Archibald Cutwater is there on the front-line to report on Miss Sarah Starker's first encounter with Heneage Trelawny's amazing new Pneumatic Flapjack, a love machine of quite rampant oscillating power.Imprudence (6k, previously published)The Maagdesgat mine is the heart of the most prosperous and wealthy family in the veldt, the source of its water, its workers and its wealth.
But only the ladies of the household know the truth of the pact they have made with its impishly eager workforce.Current Affairs (9k, new to this collection)Sacked from his old reporting job for getting too involved with his work, journalist Archibald Cutwater is despatched to report on the innovative new installation of electric streetlights in Victorian London, the wonder of the technological age.
But he is soon up to his old tricks, getting hands-on again at a private demonstration where Miss Florence Creswell is the first to meet the invigorating new electro-armatrix. But Cutwater finds that getting hands-on is only the start of his erotic perils.Guard Rail (34k, available separately)For Charlotte Beaumont, a new job working on an Alpine railway seems just the ticket. But even before night falls on her first day working for the mysterious De Mons Institute, she finds herself in peril, confronting a waspish teacher and her wayward students, while beset by strange voices that whisper to her from the shadows and plant lurid thoughts into her mind.
What should have been a routine expedition soon becomes a journey of sinful self-discovery as one by one the maidens she has been employed to protect surrender their innocence to the dark spirit that dwells in the mountains. As the night crowds in around her and the girls she has sworn to defend take turns to debauch themselves eagerly with a supernatural force she can neither see nor comprehend, Charlotte comes to the dreadful, inescapable realisation that the price she must pay to defend her young charges may...