Humbug: A Neo-Victorian Fantasy in Verse, published by Misty Publications in 2013, follows twelve-year-old Victorine and the Humbug, an owl-feline hybrid, as they flee from a manse that is as much museum as mausoleum. They are pursued by a trio of gargoyles that hankers for Victorine’s bedtime stories.
Although the collection is no longer in print as the original publisher ceased operations, I do retain the remaining copies and may make them available in the future. The Humbug has been nickering again, this time, in prose fiction, which I’m writing alongside semi-related scholarly projects. I do like to travel across genre lines to see what my characters do when released into channels prone to crossing one another.
“Museum” in Verse Daily
“A Visit with Dr. Treves” in Mudlark
“Myfanwy and the Gargoyle” in North Carolina Literary Review
“London Particular” and “Oriflamme” in Arsenic Lobster
“Ornithology” in Segue
“In Which a Taste for Tongue Is Eloquently Debated” in A capella Zoo: A Journal and E-Zine of Magical Realist and Experimental Writing
“Gargoyle Triptych I: Quite Contrary” in Dr. Hurley’s Snake-Oil Cure
“Gargoyle Triptych II: A Seance” in Dr. Hurley’s Snake-Oil Cure
“Gargoyle Triptych III: Tinderbox” in Dr. Hurley’s Snake-Oil Cure
“Mysteria” in Dr. Hurley’s Snake-Oil Cure
“Night Nursery Everything” in Illya’s Honey
Brenda Mann Hammack 