Zendula is an alternate-history world where aristocratic intrigue, espionage, emerging technology, adventure,
and mystery converge in a richly imagined civilization whose history unfolds across multiple eras.
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Book Series
A retro-futuristic raygun gothic adventure series where atomic-age heroes, secret societies, alien mysteries, and pulp noir collide across the strange world of Zendula.
A steampunk Gothic trilogy set in fin-de-siècle Zendula, where robber barons, restless workers, ancient magic, and monstrous creatures collide as the modern world marches toward war.
A supernatural Western novella series following legendary lawman Randolph Conall through outlaw wars, blood feuds, haunted frontiers, and occult conspiracies across the violent badlands of Zendula.
A modern political-fantasy trilogy in which ancient bloodlines, populist revolt, supernatural conspiracies, and technological warfare collide over the future of Zendula.
A gothic mystery series about the dead stars, lost films, ruined studios, and buried crimes of Zendula’s golden age of cinema.
A dystopian, post-apocalyptic quartet about a haunted fireman who becomes the unlikely guardian of Europe’s last books, artworks, and cultural treasures as London races toward rebellion and thermonuclear Ragnarok.
A sweeping historical-adventure trilogy following a master jewel thief whose final great score traps him inside the violence of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
A historical adventure series presented as the rediscovered journals of one of the British Empire’s most controversial officers, chronicling his extraordinary life on the frontiers of Victorian India.
A steampunk historical adventure series presented as the rediscovered secret reports of Crown Prince Rudolph, chronicling his investigations into international conspiracies, supernatural mysteries, and the hidden forces that shaped Victorian Europe.
The Werewolves of England
Coming Late 2026!
Books
The Rise and Fall of the Swell Mob of the Seven Dials
An epic steampunk adventure following the notorious Swell Mob of Victorian Zendula as master thieves, revolutionary inventions, and deadly conspiracies collide beneath the streets of the Seven Dials.
A Victorian gothic horror mystery about the kidnapping of a national hero’s son that uncovers haunted houses, occult conspiracies, and a deadly supernatural game of chess.
A sweeping World War I historical fantasy about an orphaned cowboy Werewolf whose mysterious scholarship draws him into aristocratic romance, military service, secret intelligence, and the struggle of Zendula’s persecuted Werewolves to defend the nation that fears them.
An epic gothic fantasy following Zendula’s most notorious werewolf as ancient curses, supernatural mysteries, political revolution, and the struggle for werewolf pride transform an entire civilization.
A mythic dystopian thriller in which a mysterious traveler returns to a future Londinium engulfed by a modern Ragnarok, where one family’s library may hold the last hope of preserving civilization itself.
A supernatural Arctic adventure in which the mystery of a vanished Victorian expedition leads to a cursed ghost ship, a lost city beneath the ice, and an ancient world that should never have been found.
A collection of cinematic historical adventures inspired by the dawn of silent film, where cowboys, haunted mansions, murder mysteries, romances, and supernatural horrors come to life through the early motion pictures of Adrian Reid.
Die Young And Leave A Beautiful Corpse: A Short Biography of the Victorian Actor William Terriss
Art Projects & Shorts
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About J.E.F. Rose
Professor Rose is a historian and archeologist of Zendula. After an illustrious career as a self admitted second tier scholar he retired. Then like so many academics he turned to writing of a more creative bend which combines his love of Zendulan history with fiction and art. He is determined to fictionalize the key eras of the history of Zendula from the moment of mythic creation to the modern day. Let’s hope his health holds out! Professor Rose is 63 years old and a widower. Professor Rose presently lives in The Havens which is the capital of Zendula.
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