What if everything that anyone ever believed was true? The world is on the cusp of the twentieth century... but before it can embrace the future, it's got to deal with its mythic past... a past that is inexplicably returning to life. Standing between legend and science is the Society for Cryptozoological Research: a wastrel of a lord, an inventor knight, a retired army colonel, a stage prestidigitator and a woman with the audacity to wear trousers. Together, they're the only hope of discovering the truth... if they don't run afoul of resurrected gods, the government of the British Empire and their own sordid pasts first!