Eliminating the impossible just got a whole lot harder! The fabled tin dispatch box of Dr. John H. Watson opens to reveal eleven all-new tales of mystery and dark fantasy. Sherlock Holmes, master of deductive reasoning, confronts the irrational, the unexpected and the fantastic in the weird worlds of the Gaslight Grimoire.
“Sometime a keeper here in Windsor Forest, doth all the winter-time, at still midnight, walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns,” I recited. It was from Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor. A favorite of mine.
That astonishing summons brought me to the Cornish harbour town of Fowey. There, as directed by further information within the telegram, I joined my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, on a tugboat, which immediately steamed toward the open ...
Overcome with anger at his intrusion, Frawley stormed across the room and pushed roughly at the much larger man. “Get out! Get out of here, you ignorant buffoon before you spoil everything!” Angered and confused, the bald-headed man ...
I've devoured Guy Boothby's novels about the mysterious Dr . Nikola and his search for the elixir of immortality, the witty children's fantasies of E . Nesbit, and such early spy thrillers as Erskine Childers's The Riddle of the Sands, ...
This is more than a story collection: it’s a sounding of the depths of horror. This second edition includes a new foreword by horror director Mick Garris and a bonus story by Connolly.
I looked at Powell. "The brothers made a fortune mining for gold in California and retired to Devil's Cape." Powell glowered. "Devil's Cape," he said, shaking his head. "You are familiar with the story of Lady Danger?" he asked.
This critical work diversifies Victor Turner's concept of liminality, a basic category of postmodernism, in which distinct categories and hierarchies are questioned and limits erode.
WATSON: I'm afraid so. WARBURTON: Unless of course it was the work of a lunatic. WATSON: Colonel? WARBURTON: Someone not responsible for his actions. Then the only blame would be on him. Don't you agree? HOLMES: (Gently) Colonel ...
... and the ongoing Gaslight series edited by Charles Prepolec and JR Campbell These titles include, Gaslight Grimoire (2008), Gaslight Grotesque (2009), Gaslight Arcanum (2011), and most recently Gaslight Gothic (2018) John Linwood ...
Morgan glanced at me enquiringly. “His brother,” I told him. “Works for the British government.” “Oh!” Morgan said. “I didn't know you had a brother, Mr. Holmes! Is he as clever as you?” Holmes chuckled and replied, “Mycroft is much ...