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-siècle 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.