Dispatches From Wondermark Manor: The Novel

Victorian adventure — an era full of top-hatted intrigue, dirigibles galore, all-too-demure sensuality and completely unironic classism. Altogether too normal.  Now there’s an antidote: Dispatches from Wondermark Manor, a rollicking, absurd, completely ridiculous humor novel from the author of the celebrated comic strip “Wondermark.” Taking the tropes of Conan Doyle-style adventure fiction and ramping them way over the top, this tale brings together: Ghosts (of course) Airships High society intrigue Old men in salt barrels Horses that cannot fly Frightful moustaches aplenty Cheese handling as an artform General bad decisions, and Casual mass murder All in a stunningly-designed package evocative of the grandest pulp style. Praised by many for its strangeness and wonder, Dispatches from Wondermark Manor is offered here in a 500-page omnibus edition, including all three volumes of the original novels (previously available only as long-out-of-print chapbooks) plus a separate prologue (or