The Walpole Club

The Walpole Club

Originally established in the early 1600s by Queen Elizabeth, and under the auspices of John Dee, as Her Majesty’s Fortean Defence Service, the Walpole Club has changed name and form several times over the intervening centuries. This incarnation engages the trappings of a High Society Gentlemen’s Club to keep its true purpose obfuscated.

The Club’s public face is that, while it is well-to-do, it is a little salacious, with its lax policies about women and foreigners becoming members, and being welcome at any hour. Its private face is far more learned and business-like.

The role of the Walpole Club is to defend Great Britain for all threats of the more unnatural and un-Godly variety, and to ensure that the population at large remains unaware of the true horror so tantalisingly close at hand.

Its members range from the well-travelled gentlemen of the Great Game, to former soldiers, to scholars, historians, alienists and mathematicians of note, to a surprisingly large number of Natural Historians. Their ranks also include a smattering of Society types, paying close to attention to the diversions of the powerful, to ensure that any incumbent threat may be dealt with promptly. There is also a small cadre of writers and artists, whose role is to ensure that the encounters of the Club could only be regarded as fictions by all right-thinking citizens.

Do you have what it takes to answer the call? If so, the Walpole Club wants you!




with thanks to Charles Stross for all the inspiration