{"product_id":"2940014348652","title":"Dispatches from Wondermark Manor: The Compleat Trilogy","description":"Victorian adventure -- an era full of top-hatted intrigue, dirigibles galore, all-too-demure sensuality and completely unironic classism. Now there's an antidote: Dispatches from Wondermark Manor, a rollicking, absurd, completely ridiculous yarn from the author of the celebrated comic strip \"Wondermark.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking the tropes of Conan Doyle-style adventure fiction and ramping them way over the top, Malki's story brings together:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGhosts (of course)\u003cbr\u003eAirships (of course)\u003cbr\u003eHigh society intrigue\u003cbr\u003eOld men in salt barrels\u003cbr\u003eHorses that cannot fly\u003cbr\u003eFrightful moustaches aplenty\u003cbr\u003eCheese handling as an artform\u003cbr\u003eGeneral bad decisions, and\u003cbr\u003eCasual mass murder\u003cbr\u003eAll in a stunningly-designed package evocative of the grandest pulp style. Praised by many for its strangeness and wonder, Dispatches from Wondermark Manor is offered here for the very first time in a complete omnibus edition, including all three volumes of the novels (originally available only as long out-of-print chapbooks)plus a separate prologue from Malki's book Beards of our Forefathers, plus all-new hand-drawn maps of the locations in the story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuy with confidence! This edition is guaranteed at least 48% opium-free by law.","brand":"Bearstache Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180177998064,"sku":"2940014348652","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014348652","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}