Writer: Henry ChebaaneArtist: Stephen Baskerville Independent, Summer, 2023 There is something to the human condition that compels us to know what is behind the curtain. Here we see familiar historical and the suggestion that something much stranger has been hiding underneath it all along. The Panharmonion Vol. 1: Times of London, written by Henry Chebaane with art by Stephen Baskerville, takes Victorian Britain, blending historical mystery, science fiction, horror, and corporate conspiracy into an alternative-history story that stretches across centuries and continents. The story follows Alex Campbell, a music producer and composer who has spent much of her life carrying the psychological scars of a traumatic residential fire in Montreal in 1994 that claimed the lives of her family. Raised in Toronto by her protective grandparents, Alex unexpectedly inherits a long-abandoned 19th-century property in London’s King’s Cross after their sudden deaths. What initially looks like a probate headache soon becomes