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  • My Good Man: A Novel of Architects, Ape-Men, and Other Assorted Oddities

    The course of true love never did run smooth and our young architect, the narrator and hero of ‘My Good Man: A Novel of Architects, Ape-Men, and Other Assorted Oddities’, finds his way in romance unexpectedly beset by a menagerie of fanciful beasts and beings. Aided and abetted by Hastings, that most perfect of gentleman’s gentleman, he takes each of these encounters head-on, discovering there is more to life than the wooing and the winning of a young lady’s hand. The posh and the paranormal collide in unexpected, hilarious ways in this comic tale by author Sanjay R Singhal and it is not always certain which is the more rarefied or unruly. Fans of the late PG Wodehouse will savour this backwards glance into a world of good manners, good breeding, and of course good sportsmanship, set in the Gold Coast of Chicago (and elsewhere) and sparkling with wit and wisdom. Enthusiasts of the paranormal will find some familiar faces in these chapters, including the Beast of Bray Road and the Chicago Mothman (among others). Like an exceptionally vintage Champagne each page is a froth of bubbles and brilliance, monsters and mayhem, captured in sharp, vivid dialogue and hysterically funny interludes. ‘My Good Man’ is a delightful caper, sure to please anyone with a thirst for social gossip and gleeful surprises!

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  • Hawkesmoor 2: The Etheric Murders

    Six years past the extraordinary events at Hawkesmoor Castle in which a deadly clash of vampyres and a disastrous interdimensional bleed nearly dismantled the known universe, Robin Dashwood faces deadly new threats — paranormal and human.
    The siege at Hawkesmoor alerted MI5 and MI6 to the presence of revenants and a very fragile rapprochement was constructed between the two races. While the British public continues to sleep unburdened by the knowledge of a hidden kingdom of vampyres in their midst, the very highest levels of human government accept the concept but with understandable wariness. A dangerous time for vampires — one bloody misstep by a rogue revenant could mean that human authorities would brutally suppress or even eradicate the perceived threat.
    When notable humans are found murdered with grotesque and preternatural violence, Robin must uncover the truth before the Prime Minister moves against the vampire realm. With the help of family and friends, he tracks a supernatural serial killer through deeply buried mediaeval mysteries and the haunted byways of Britain.

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    Fans of Hawkesmoor may also wish to purchase the first book in the series: Hawkesmoor: A Novel of Vampyre and Faerie. Robin Dashwood, a handsome and charming British vampire with long gone aristocratic connections, is about to be thrown into an epic adventure that will shine light upon the rise of the vampire. This is the last thing he could imagine himself doing. Robin prefers to hide in plain sight — having devised a quiet life for himself in New York as a history professor in hopes of avoiding other more powerful vampires and their dangerous, decadent political machinations.

    A chance encounter in a Manhattan art gallery introduces him to the beautiful Lady Caroline DeBarry and reveals a vicious murder from Robin’s human past. In search of answers to this historical mystery, he returns home to England and to Caroline who has captured his heart. As Robin uncovers the truth, he finds traces of a far more ancient and shrouded realm than even that of the vampire. This will shake the foundations of vampire lore and its brutal hierarchy, placing Lady Caroline in terrible danger and setting in motion events that will lead to a final bloody confrontation between a revenant army and human kind.

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  • Welcome to Stirrup Cup Books!

    Welcome to Stirrup Cup Books, publishers & purveyors of fine & unusual books!

    We look forward to sharing our literary enthusiasms and publications with you and will shortly be welcoming submissions for our spring/summer 2026 publishing features; please be sure to follow us for more information, updates, and books available!

    Presently, we are preparing for publication ‘Hawkesmoor 2: The Etheric Murders’, the followup to the acclaimed ‘Hawkesmoor’ by Anne Merino. Look for it soon!