Absinthe & Steam — Mark Bousquet

GUNFIGHTER GOTHIC We Shoot the Weird in the Face Fresh from their battle at the haunted Kraken Moor, Hanna and Jill are back for more investigations into the dangerously weird and weirdly dangerous. The vacationing Americans are hitting Victorian England hard in three horror stories that pit them against reborn Celtic gods, robots from outer space, a brilliant French botanist, and an Arthurian wizard. In "Thanksgiving at the House of Absinthe & Steam," a wild night of drinking a new brand of absinthe leads to a disturbing revelation about just how those drinks are created. "God in the Steam" sees Hanna & Jill facing off against a Celtic god trying to break the chains of Hell by murdering his half-human son. "The Worldly Introduction of Lady Absinthe & Gentleman Steam, Occult Detectives" ties both stories together, and this time it's a brainwashed Jill that needs to hire someone to help her with a case of the weird: her mistress, Haneul, is determined to bring Merlin back from the dead to assassinate Queen Victoria GUNFIGHTER GOTHIC: ABSINTHE & STEAM is the second collection in the ongoing adventures of Hanna Pak and Jill Masters.