Gaslamp stories are almost like steampunk. They romanticise a time past, but also use it to play on themes and trends in today’s society. Gaslamp has a great, wistful, Victorian feel to the stories.

Series

• The Countess’s Pleasure by Emma Holly (Tale of the Demon World #2)
• Queen of All She Surveys by Emma Holly (Tale of the Demon World #5)

Short story collections

• Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling

Standalones – Short stories

• Mr. Splitfoot by Dale Bailey
• The Governess by Elizabeth Bear
• Smithfield by James P. Blaylock
• The Fairy Enterprise by Jeffrey Ford
• Estella Saves the Village by Theodora Goss
• Charged by Leanna Renee Hieber
• La Reine d’Enfer by Kathe Koja
• The Vital Importance of the Superficial by Ellen Kushner & Caroline Stevermer
• Their Monstrous Minds by Tanith Lee
• A Few Twigs He Left Behind by Gregory Maguire
• The Memory Book by Maureen McHugh
• Phosphorus by Veronica Schanoes
• Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells by Delia Sherman
• We Without Us Were Shadows by Catherynne M. Valente
• From the Catalogue of the Pavilion of the Uncanny and Marvellous, Scheduled for Premiere at the Great Exhibition (Before the Fire) by Genevieve Valentine
• The Unwanted Women of Surrey by Kaaron Warren
• For the Briar Rose by Elizabeth E. Wein
• The Jewel in the Toad Queen’s Crown by Jane Yolen

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