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A skeletal hand clutching an iron key lies hidden inside a mermaid’s wood sarcophagus; a hand-drawn map is stolen from underneath the floorboards of an previous museum; an eccentric sound asleep inventor desires of a locked passage to the centre of the hole earth, and via dreaming of the passage, brings it into being...

Pursued by way of kidnappers taking into consideration riches and homicide, Katherine Perkins and her cousins, junior participants of The Guild of St. George, needs to descend into the depths of the earth that allows you to go back the Sleeper to his ancestral domestic at the seashores of Lake Windermere. yet to evoke him may suggest the top of the dream, the last of the passage, and the 3 intrepid explorers marooned in a savage land forgotten by means of time itself...

ZEUGLODON, set on the earth expected in Blaylock's THE DIGGING LEVIATHAN, is a panorama of colour, secret, and event, within which fact and myth are moving currents, and not anything is sort of what it kind of feels to be.

“James P. Blaylock's ZEUGLODON is the main enjoyable i have had interpreting in a long time, with an unabashed budding cryptozoologist protagonist, mummified mermaid, underground passages, misplaced global, and the scariest busybody given that Margaret Hamilton positioned Toto in her bicycle basket. do not omit it.” --Locus

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

World fable Award profitable writer James P. Blaylock, one of many pioneers of the steampunk style, has written eighteen novels in addition to rankings of brief tales, essays, and articles. His steampunk novel HOMUNCULUS received the Philip okay. Dick Memorial Award, and his brief tale “The Ape-box Affair,” released in Unearth journal, used to be the 1st modern steampunk tale released within the U.S. fresh guides contain KNIGHTS OF THE CORNERSTONE, THE EBB TIDE, and THE AFFAIR OF THE CHALK CLIFFS. His most recent novel is THE AYLESFORD cranium, released via Titan Books.