By Barbara Hambly
The fabled tin dispatch field of Dr. John H. Watson opens to bare 11 all new stories of poser and darkish myth. Sherlock Holmes, grasp of deductive reasoning, confronts the irrational, the unforeseen and the glorious within the bizarre worlds of the Gaslight Grimoire.
"A significant addition to the bookshelf of any fan of
Sherlock Holmes or of the supernatural. exceptional tales, nice type, genuine
chills: it is all here."
- Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning writer of HOMINIDS
"This e-book comprises 11 of the main creative, innovative and inspired
exploits but dedicated to paper. exceptional stuff!"
- Roger Johnson, BSI, Editor, The Sherlock Holmes Journal
Contributors:
Barbara Hambly
Christopher Sequeira
Barbara Roden
M. J. Elliott
Martin Powell
Chico Kidd & Rick Kennett
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It was the most magical thing I had ever seen, and it had the best villain ever in Conrad Veidt’s Jaffar! He made Tom Baker’s Prince Koura seem like a boy scout by comparison. What kid wouldn’t want to be Sabu? So with a major itch for heroic fantasy, I did what most geeky kids would do, start reading comic books and developing the first stages of ‘collector’s mania’. The Mighty Thor, Iron Man, Dr. Strange, Tomb of Dracula, the Uncanny X-men, and on and on went the list of Marvel comics. Stan Lee had a lot to answer for when he had the idea to infuse the tired superhero books of the 1950s with the soap opera antics of romance comics.
The fact that Holmes approaches any problem which may have supernatural connotations with scepticism and doubt adds extra interest and tension to the narrative, which is missing from those tales featuring ghost detectives. It is a subtle difference but it adds a richer and more engrossing element to the story. Sherlock Holmes has always been a supremely gothic character with a strange costume, emerging himself like a ghost from the eerie fog and investigating bizarre crimes which take place in various ancient houses.
Peter, for his part, was fond of displaying his knowledge. Though his accounts varied wildly from interview to interview, still I think Holmes gleaned sufficient information to unlock certain clues in those cases that he never told John about. I know that it was from Peter that he learned the secret behind the events at Rowson Priory, and the riddle that saved his life and John’s, years later, during the affair of the Covyng Stones. But about such matters as Red Indians and pirates, Peter found Holmes shockingly obtuse.
