Best Victorian

Based on Alan Moore's comic series, 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' follows a team of Victorian literary heroes Captain Nemo, Allan Quatermain, Mina Harker, and others who are recruited to d...

Set in Victorian England, this novel follows Annabelle Archer, a brilliant but impoverished woman who joins the suffragette movement. She is tasked with recruiting the cold, powerful Duke of Montgomer...

Evie Dunmore's historical romance is a brilliant blend of Victorian-era social politics and passionate love. Annabelle, a brilliant suffragette, clashes with the cold, powerful Duke of Montgomery. It...

Penny Dreadful weaves together classic horror literature characters in Victorian London, creating a dark and atmospheric gothic horror series. While not explicitly steampunk, the show's aesthetic and...

Guy Ritchie's take on Sherlock Holmes infuses the classic detective story with a gritty, industrial, and slightly steampunk aesthetic. The film features elaborate mechanical traps, early 20th-century...

Kate Summerscales book is a brilliant historical investigation into a notorious 1860 murder case in England. Jack Whicher, one of the original Scotland Yard detectives, was tasked with solving the mur...

Set in an alternate 19th century where the dead are reanimated to serve as labor, The Empire of Corpses is a dark, atmospheric steampunk adventure. It follows John Watson as he travels the world to un...

Hallie Rubenholds 'The Five' is a revolutionary look at the Jack the Ripper case. Instead of focusing on the killer, she tells the life stories of the five women he murdered, reclaiming their identiti...

The Clockmakers Daughter is a historical romance with a touch of time travel and gothic mystery. Eliza, a young woman working in her fathers clock shop, discovers a hidden mechanism that transports he...

Black Butler is a gothic mystery series set in Victorian-era London, featuring a young earl and his demonic butler. While primarily a supernatural mystery, the show's setting and aesthetic are heavily...

Sylvain Chomets 'The Illusionist' is a beautiful, melancholic love letter to a bygone era of entertainment. Based on an unproduced script by Jacques Tati, it follows an aging French magician who trave...

The Order: 1886, developed by Ready at Dawn, is a third-person shooter set in an alternate Victorian London where a secret society battles a monstrous threat. The games steampunk aesthetic is prominen...