The Astonishing Adventures of Lord Likely

The Strange Case of the Sinister Snowman, Part One

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

IT WAS mid-December, and London had been left under a thick blanket of snow, as if the lord God above had looked down ‘pon the glorious British Empire, and had decided it looked so damnably attractive that he had whipped out His tremendous tallywhacker and sprayed the land with His holy horn-paste. Truly ’twas a [...]

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Our Mutual Fiend: Part Two

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

Can it be true? Is Charles Dickens stalking the streets of London and eating people, from BEYOND THE GRAVE?

Tags: 'Big' Bella Butterlegs, adventure, botter, brains, Charles Dickens, drunk, fiction, Inspector Spunkleford, Lord Likely, murder, mystery, orphan, prostitute, Scotland Yard, Soggy Biscuit, undead, Victorian, web fiction, weblit, zombies

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Our Mutual Fiend: Part One

Monday, August 9th, 2010

Lord Likely embarks upon his most baffling case yet, as a corpse is discovered and the killer has been identified as…CHARLES DICKENS?

Tags: adventure, botter, Charles Dickens, coffee, drunk, fiction, hangover, humour, Inspector Spunkleford, Likely Estate, murder, mystery, Queen Victoria, Scotland Yard, Victorian, web fiction, weblit

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Lord Likely and the Bloody Nuisances

Monday, August 31st, 2009

NEW! A brand-new adventure for his lordship, as an evil presence threatens London Town – and this time, it is not one of Botter’s foul bottom-burps.

Be prepared for chills, thrills and all kinds of spills as Likely prepares to go up against some vile, Victorian vampires…

Tags: Bloody Nuisances, botter, Bram Stoker, Dr. Whelkbladder, Dracula, fiction, humour, Inspector Spunkleford, Lord Likely, Mr. Strix, murder, vampires

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In Which Lord Likely Makes A Fist Of It

Friday, October 24th, 2008

September, 1857. “What in the name of all that is sacred and holy do you think you are doing?” bellowed Professor Ventricle, after I had punched him squarely in the face, strongly suspecting that he was none other than my arch-nemesis, Harold Loathsome, in some sort of shoddy disguise. “Give it up, Loathsome! Your terrible [...]

Tags: botter, fiction, Harold Loathsome, humour, Lord Likely, mimsy, Mr Bertrum Gumbumble, murder, Professor Ventricle, punch, St. Bumthrusty's, tits

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Wretch in Peace?

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

September, 1857. Getting a new man-servant is an awful ball-ache, you know. And I should know, for I have had over twenty different servants in my lifetime, of varying degrees of uselessness. When my father, Lord Eustace Likely, disappeared from the Likely Estate, ne’er to return (and now presumed deceased), I was left in the [...]

Tags: botter, fiction, Harold Loathsome, humour, Lord Likely, Mr Bertrum Gumbumble, murder, mystery, Professor Ventricle, St. Bumthrusty's

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Lord Likely is Wrong

Monday, October 13th, 2008

September, 1857. While my wretched man-servant Botter may well have been in great danger at the murderous hands of my arch-nemesis Harold Loathsome, I saw no reason to cut short my current orgiastic duties with the delectable Miss Lizzie Flapkiss and company. It is awfully bad manners to pull out early, you know. Thus I [...]

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Looking for Loathsome

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

September, 1857. “Well, come on, man!” Spunkleford exclaimed. “Who exactly is this Loathsome fellow? Why do you suspect him of these terrible crimes? Speak up, man! Why must you keep us all in such terrible suspense?!” I was looking out of the school kitchen’s window, lost in a mixture of quiet contemplation and remembrance of [...]

Tags: Harold Loathsome, Inspector Spunkleford, Lizzie Flapkiss, Lord Likely, murder, reunion, school, Spotty Flapkiss, St. Bumthrusty's

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Murder on the Menu

Friday, September 26th, 2008

September, 1857. “Oh dear,” I sighed, as we entered the kitchens of St. Bumthrusty’s. The scene was one of utter chaos; items of cutlery were strewn about the place, food items were spilt everywhere, and slumped next to the stove was the body of a man. I knelt down beside the corpse, which I noticed [...]

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Fists O’Fury

Monday, September 1st, 2008

September the First, 1857. It was a typical, completely unremarkable after-noon in London Town; carriages clattered noisily up and down the cobbled roads, smartly-dressed gentlemen doffed their hats as pretty ladies glided past them, cheeky cockney urchins weaved in and out of crowds, laughing and screaming as they did, while high above their heads Big [...]

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