Ravenwood Grimoire

The Weight of a Promise
The Weight of a Promise
In the year 1890, Matlock was a town of measured footsteps and familiar faces. Shop bells rang with soft insistence, horses clopped along cobbled streets, and the Derwent carried secrets... Read more...
The Letter in the Floorboards
The Letter in the Floorboards
Arthur Bell was always neat, even when he had very little reason to be. His flat cap was brushed every morning. His coat buttoned even when the wind tugged at... Read more...
The Celestial Sentinel
The Celestial Sentinel
The brass nameplate beside the observatory door read "Dr. Edmund Starcross, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society," but those who knew the distinguished astronomer understood that his most loyal research... Read more...
The Temporal Artificer
The Temporal Artificer
The brass nameplate on the workshop door read "Professor A. Steamwhistle, Chronometer & Fine Mechanisms," though few in Victorian London's scientific circles knew the true extent of Archibald's ambitions. While... Read more...
The Ballad of Duck Turpin: England's Most Wanted Waterfowl
The Ballad of Duck Turpin: England's Most Wanted Waterfowl
The confusion began, as most historical mysteries do, with terrible handwriting. The warrant read "Duck Turpin" clear as day, well, as clear as anything written by Constable Wiggins after his... Read more...
The Calls That Never End
The Calls That Never End
The red telephone box stood at the edge of the village like a forgotten punctuation mark. It no longer appeared on maps. Its paint was cracked and darkened by rain,... Read more...
The Twilight Trial
The Twilight Trial
The year was 1692, though not in Salem. This was Ashford-on-Marsh, a village that history forgot because what happened there was worse than what history remembered elsewhere. Her name was... Read more...
Chains of Winter: The Guardian Forgotten
Chains of Winter: The Guardian Forgotten
In the high Alpine passes where the mountains scrape the belly of the sky, there are sounds that do not belong to wind or wolf. The locals know them well,... Read more...
The Ember Child
The Ember Child
The village of Thornbury kept its secrets close and its judgments closer. It was a place where winter came early and stayed late, where the ground was hard and unforgiving,... Read more...
Woolly the Christmas Baggley
Woolly the Christmas Baggley
Every town has its own kind of ghosts. Matlock’s are peculiar ones. Some drift through mirrors, others linger in mines or haunt forgotten attics. But the strangest of them all... Read more...
The Tailor of Tattered Christmases
The Tailor of Tattered Christmases
In the old quarter of Matlock stood a narrow brick shop wedged between a candle maker and a cobbler. The wooden sign above its door read simply: E. Stitch –... Read more...
Mr. Chillingsworth and the Snowman’s Gift
Mr. Chillingsworth and the Snowman’s Gift
Before the Christmas lights and plastic reindeer, before the supermarkets started playing carols in October, there was a time when winter in Matlock was measured in three things: how thick... Read more...