From the comforting glow of Baker Street gas-lamps to the gloom of the ocean's depths, Sherlock Holmes lays bare the secrets of men, monsters and evil in twelve new tales of the bizarre, the uncanny and the arcane.
“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.
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 ...
1898 saw the first appearance of Flaxman Low in Pearson's Magazine. Low was a sleuth cast clearly in the Holmes mould: clever, well read, possessing strong deductive powers with the ability to discern clues where others failed to do so.
Presents a collection of thirteen horror/mystery tales featuring Sherlock Holmes from such authors as Neil Jackson, Barbara Roden, Hayden Trenholm, and Stephen Volk.
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 ...
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, ...
... 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 ...
Set against a landscape of magic, cruelty and destiny, By the Light of Camelot includes 13 original Arthurian tales by award-winning authors Shannon Allen, Colleen Anderson, Renee Bennett, J. R. Campbell, M. K. Hume, William Meikle, R. ...
And yet, for those who are true friends and admirers of the Master Detective of Baker Street, where it is always 1895 (or a few decades on either side of that!) these stories are not enough. Give us more!