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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Borden Dispatches are a series of horror novels by Cherie Priest, blending historical fact and Lovecraftian fiction.March, 1893: Phillip Zollicoffer, professor of marine biology at Miskatonic University, receives an unusual specimen of sea jelly from the renowned but reclusive Dr. E.A. Jackson. Zollicoffer becomes obsessed with the specimen, his sanity quickly eroding until he is driven to an unspeakable act of bloody murder....April, 1894: Lizzie Andrew Borden — yes, that Lizzie Borden — and her older sister Emma have purchased a rambling house near the sea called Maplecroft in the small town of Fall River, Massachusetts. The sisters are shunned by the townsfolk, despite Lizzie's acquittal in the axe murders of their father and stepmother. As it turns out, Lizzie — or Lizbeth, as she prefers — did take an axe to Andrew Jackson Borden and Abigail Borden, but that's only half the story. A week before the murders, a sickness swept through the Borden household, slowly transforming Lizbeth's parents into flabby, waterlogged things without a trace of their former humanity.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Now the things from the sea are drawn to Maplecroft, and to the strange green bits of sea-glass that Lizbeth keeps locked in an iron box under the basement floorboards. Emma, wheelchair-bound and suffering from consumption, conducts cutting-edge scientific research in the field of marine biology under the name E.A. Jackson. Lizbeth's only happiness is found in infrequent visits from her actress lover, Nance O'Neil. Every night, Lizbeth patrols the grounds of the estate, hunting the fish-creatures that crawl up from the depths. Public opinion may be against her, but her axe is the only thing that seems to deal with the creatures permanently, and she may be the only thing standing between Fall River and the creeping madness from the deep....Novels in the series include:
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