rotary & co
Independent publisher of Victorian-era fiction and nonfiction.
Books
In Plain Sight, Unseen was released on September 12th 2025. It is available now!
About
Rotary & Co is a small independent press founded by A.B. Frank, specialising in Gaslamp fiction and nonfiction set in the of the nineteenth century.
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Keep an eye out for upcoming releases here!
Books
Horror is not confined to the realm of monsters and the macabre; it dwells also beneath the mask of the ordinary.
In Plain Sight, Unseen is a collection of Victorian era horror stories that explores what lies beneath the surface of a changing world. This is supernatural historical horror shaped by industry, secrecy, and the quiet unease of modernity.
Enter the gaslit streets of Violshire, where dark fantasy with horror takes hold. From the draw of the freak show to fireworks that reveal the impossible, each moment pulls back the veil on something waiting beneath.
These dark fantasy historical fiction tales speak of shadow, strangeness, and recognition. Of places half seen, and truths half known. Of lives that brush against something they cannot name, yet cannot escape.
Blending gaslamp atmosphere and dark fantasy with a gothic twist, these stories draw you into a city where the familiar cannot be trusted, and where every corner holds the promise of something watching.
What if the true horror is not hidden at all, but has always been there, in plain sight?
About
Rotary & Co is devoted to work rooted in the Victorian era. Its fiction explores the moral, psychological, industrial, and spiritual tensions of the period. Its nonfiction examines Victorian literature and society, with particular attention to the forces of modernity that shaped both lived experience and imaginative expression.
Rotary & Co is especially interested in the interplay between social change and storytelling: the rise of industry, advances in science and technology, shifts in belief and doubt, urban expansion, class mobility, reform movements, and the anxieties and ambitions these transformations produced. The press recognises the Victorian era as a formative moment in modern consciousness, and approaches it as both historical subject and creative landscape.
Rotary & Co exists to publish a coherent body of work, unified by period, theme, and intellectual interest.
coming soon
More works are in development under Rotary & Co, continuing a catalogue of Victorian-era horror and dark fantasy.
Forthcoming titles include Gaslamp Great Britain, alongside nonfiction exploring psychology in the Victorian era, where the study of the mind began to take on a darker shape.
Further fiction will return to shadowed streets and half-seen places, where the ordinary begins to give way to something else.