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
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
