Ghosts of Albion
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Ghosts of Albion started as a computer-animated web movie series on the BBC's website. Until 2005 it was located on the "Cult TV" division of the website, but since the elimination of Cult TV, its future is uncertain. The web pages are still online there (as of 09/2006), though no longer directly linked.
The works in chronological order of events within the stories:
- "Illusions" - story, text online on the BBC site
- "Legacy" - drama, Macromedia Flash web movie, online on the BBC site
- "Astray" - novella, paper book, text and RealPlayer audio version online on the BBC site
- "Embers" - drama, Macromedia Flash web movie, online on the BBC site
- "Accursed" - novel, paper book, by Del Rey Books
- "Initiation" - anthology, paper book, by Subterranean Press, includes "Illusions", "Legacy" and "Embers"
- "Witchery" - novel, paper book (released late 09/2006), by Del Rey Books
Created by Amber Benson and Christopher Golden, the story is about the Swift siblings, Tamara and William, the descendants of a wealthy early Victorian era London family. Tamara is a budding novelist (specializing in pulp horror novels, or "penny dreadfuls") and William is an architect's apprentice. One night in 1838 they are called to their ailing grandfather's bedside. There he tells them that while he may have seemed to be another stage magician, he is actually a mystical soldier who protects Albion, the mystical spirit of Britain. William and Tamara at first do not believe him, until he is suddenly slaughtered before their eyes by werewolves, and their father is possessed by a demon. Before dying, their grandfather had told the two that they are to carry on his legacy as protectors of Albion.
His words are soon confirmed when they are soon introduced to the ghosts of the poet Lord Byron (Joseph McFadden), Admiral Nelson (Anthony Daniels), and Queen Bodicea (Emma Samms), also mystical protectors of Albion. They all leave their home, now overrun with demons, to the house of Nigel Townshend (Paterson Joseph), an old friend of their father's (as well as Nelson's). There they study spells and prepare themselves to fend off certain doom from Britain--and the world.
