A collection of nine steampunk stories drawn from the archives of the Etheric Explorers Club, a Victorian society dedicated to exploring the mysteries of the etheric realm...The visions of a Russian painter in fin-de-siecle Paris...a terrible weapon that almost no-one has survived...a confession within a confession...a crime from antiquity resurfacing -beneath- the Thames...a desperate search for a lost sister...a contemporary horror entwined with an ancient manuscript...an experiment gone wrong...a lost world which should have remained lost...and a night of dining, death, and romance.