The Aylesford Skull

A Tale of Langdon St. Ives

James P. Blaylock

• Publisher: Titan Books
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9780857689818
• Print ISBN:
  9781781167601
• Subtopic: Science Fiction

It is the summer of 1883 and Professor Langdon St. Ives, brilliant but eccentric scientist and explorer, is at home in Aylesford with his family. A few miles to the north a steam launch has been taken by pirates above Egypt Bay, the crew murdered and pitched overboard. In Aylesford itself a grave is opened and possibly robbed of the skull. The suspected grave robber, the infamous Dr. Ignacio Narbondo, is an old nemesis of Langdon St. Ives. When Dr. Narbondo returns to kidnap his four-year-old son Eddie and then vanishes into the night, St. Ives and his factotum Hasbro race into London in pursuit...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Also Availabe from Titan Books
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Epigraph
• Dedication
• Contents
• Prologue, 1883: River Thames, The Sea Reach
• One: Into The Darkness
• Two: Home at Last
• Three: The Aylesford Skull
• Four: The Weir
• Five: The Return Of the Dead
• Six: The Return Of Bill Kraken
• Seven: Hereafter Farm
• Eight: Corpse Candle
• Nine: A Lane to the Land Of The Dead
• Ten: What Duty Requires
• Eleven: To London
• Twelve: The Queen's Rest
• Thirteen: Lost Objects Found
• Fourteen: On The Pilgrims Road
• Fifteen: The Goat and Cabbage
• Sixteen: Slocumb's Millinery
• Seventeen: Merton's Rarities
• Eighteen: The Rookery
• Nineteen: Billson's Half Toad Inn
• Twenty: Mother and Son
• Twenty One: Angel Alley
• Twenty-Two: The Best-Laid Plans
• Twenty-Three: Flaming Syllabub
• Twenty-Four: After the Battle
• Twenty-Five: Lord Moorgate
• Twenty-Six: Shade House
• Twenty-Seven: Aloft Over London
• Twenty-Eight: The Cipher
• Twenty-Nine: Cliffe Village
• Thirty: The Barred Window
• Thirty One: The Message Arrives
• Thirty Two: The Tunnel Beneath the Inn
• Thirty-Three: The King Of the Daft
• Thirty-Four: Uncle Gilbert's Encampment
• Thirty-Five: Bloody Beefsteak
• Thirty-Six: The Burning
• Thirty-Seven: Mrs. Marigold
• Thirty-Eight: Carried Away
• Thirty-Nine: London Arrivals
• Forty: Morning
• Forty One: The Cathedral Of the Oxford Martyrs
• Forty-Two: From The Arched Window
• Forty-Three: The Ghost's Revenge
• Forty-Four: The Jam Pot
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author