[h=1]Welcome to the Awful Orphanage, or as it is otherwise known, Mrs Prendergasts Home for Wayward Children.[/h] A place where children are to be neither seen, or heard ... from again!
Now, normally one wouldn’t use words like “rotten”, “grave” or “dark” when describing a building. However, nothing is normal about the forboding Orphanage. The sign over its cast iron gates reads Mrs Prendergast's Home for Wayward Children yet nobody has ever seen the children in the grounds.
Founded by Mrs. Elspeth Prendergast in a time where everything looked bleak and dreadful, many folks thought that it would be a perfect place for those wretched homeless street urchins to grow up. How wrong that turned out to be...
Now, the townsfolk see figures walking around the house through the windows and shuffling henchmen guarding the perimeters. Various whispers on the streets of Victorian London say that no-one ever leaves that place. They might suspect that something isn’t right, but no one will dare to say it out loud. Hushed talk about a tall fellow that seems to float through the building and a ghastly green glow emanating from one room.The last man that dared to speak up, has been missing ever since.
Every child who is a resident of the place nicknamed “The Awful Orphanage” will gladly tell you about all the terrors that lurk in that wretched building, if you can find one to talk to you that is.
So, we have asked some brave writers to do just that; to find all the scraps of information that might have leaked from that dreaded house. Maybe someone has seen something! The fact that no one has seen the children will hopefully not mean that their stories will be left untold...
Workhouse Games has teamed up with luminary authors including Gav Thorpe, Graham McNeill, Mark Latham, Sarah Cawkwell, Nick Kyme, Ben Counter and Aaron Dembski-Bowden to create a beautiful anthology of short stories that explore and expand the stories and happenings in The Awful Orphanage and the forthcoming Hollow Earth tabletop skirmish game.
