Tim E Koch
Purveyor of Fine Vintage Science Fantasies
Renewing the work of Jules Verne, HG Wells, Edgar Allan Poe,
Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson
The release of an ancient demon and the creation of a new intoxicant coincide in this Victorian supernatural thriller. An elixir has the obvious effect of making its user compliant to the extreme, but unbeknownst to its maker, it also…
Members of the casts of Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Sherlock Holmes, and Around the World in 80 Days unite to save London, Great Britain, and the humanity itself from a fate of madness. Some time after Inspector Newcomen’s…
Body swapping fatally complicates a love triangle while a mission to alter history proves terribly misguided. Using a machine to transfer the whole body through time is perfectly fine, but commandeering a memory is a more expedient way to alter…
Mina Harker uses residual telepathic skills gained from her encounter with the dreadful Transylvanian Count to find lost people. Touching a person's belongings gives her insight into their whereabouts. When London's coal smog of an uninhabitable Earth, a search for…
Britain has adopted "transportation" into indentured servitude as a criminal punishment in an effort to reduce the vast number of executions by hanging. Initially, convicts are sent to the Americas and Australia until a crisis of cosmic proportion occurs. When…
In an antient advanced matriarchal society, when the cannibalistic Lord Moloch sets his intensions upon Hadad, the lovely young son of the premier matron of the realm and the most desirable among the consorts thereof, Hadad's automaton companion and crafty…
Hoping to impart greater social skills upon its premier simulacrum, the British Admiralty commissions a new engine for the automatized commander, but the engine exceeds all expectation, imparting upon the captain's innerworkings a passionate love of art, an excessive appreciation…
The E stands for Engelbert, which was my dad’s first name. He didn’t have a middle name, perhaps because because he was born at the onset of the Great Depression and even names were scarce. His next older sibling was George Valentine Koch, quite an eloquent name, I think, but the youngest was simply Engelbert.
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