Evil Lab Studios
THE PHILOSOPHER CASTOR · CREATIVE LABORATORY
Stories from worlds that refuse to stay quiet. Some are nearly ready to tell. Others are still whispering from the shelves.
Welcome to the Evil Lab Studios Library, home to the fiction of The Philosopher Castor. Here you'll find supernatural investigations, strange cities, missing tomorrows, and people who have learned to make a home in the shadows.
We share projects as they develop, without pretending a working title is a finished book or a target word count is a release date. Pull up a chair. The shelves are still growing.
A private detective. A city without a proper morning. Trouble with excellent timing.
James Hazzard knows Grimmstone's rain-soaked streets better than most. He also knows that ordinary problems have a habit of becoming very unusual ones. In a city where alleyways keep secrets and the clocks can't agree, even getting home can be an investigation.
Format: Novella-length fiction · Working target: approximately 25,000 words
Publication: Not yet announced
Open the case file →What happens when the future goes missing?
Victor Fenwick, a private investigator from Grimmstone's Gaslight District, becomes entangled in a mystery of missing time and unsettling objects. The story grew from a tabletop playtest and is being explored as a fiction project.
Format: Proposed novel · Working title
Publication: Not yet announced
Examine the dossier →The individual story pages include introductions, themes, and development notes. They do not present invented passages as published or approved manuscript excerpts. Actual excerpts will be added when the author selects them.
Read the writing desk journal →