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Original cover art, archival images, and illustrations from the Dark Lantern Tales series — and the Victorian world it inhabits.

“The covers were never meant to look like modern historical fiction — they were meant to look like the broadsheets and pulps that first delivered these stories to readers.”

Cover Art — Book Series

The Covers

Old Grim, the Frisco Detective cover

The Frisco Detective

The Actress Detective cover

The Actress Detective

Hilda Serene cover

TOM OF CALIFORNIA

Joe Phenix cover

Joe Phenix, the Police Spy

Steam-Age model cover

Steam-Age Crime Stories

Archival Images

From the Archive

National Police Gazette, Nov 6 1880

National Police Gazette, 1880

Police lanterns

Police Lanterns

A dark lantern, 1880s-1900s

A Dark Lantern, 1880s–1900s

Victorian-era photograph

From the Archive

Victorian-era photograph

From the Archive

Victorian-era photograph

From the Archive

Archival photograph

From the Archive

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