Who solved the mystery of the Night-Terror Ghoul? Who saved the country from Doctor Kraken’s Death Ray? Who retrieved Mr Tibbles from a tall tree for Mrs Cloverdale?Enter Count Gilber’ Xavier de Fourtrue: scholar, adventurer, and poet. Now the count faces his greatest challenge, yet the challenge is not the insane phantom lurking beneath the old opera house, or the master of crime, Professor John Meyrane, or even the mysterious Count Drakuvac, who attacks only at night and drains his victims of blood.Who is the mysterious, powerful bureaucrat pursuing the count on his every adventure, forcing official procedure onto every facet of life? Can the count stop the seemingly irresistible rise of conformity, regimentation, and standardisation? Or is the grey bureaucrat right, and only statistics are forever?Romanticism Lost: a thrilling, bleakly comical steampunk adventure of derring-do and totalitarian paperwork.