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Originally Posted by Nesacat  Shadows Over Baker Street: Edited by Michael Reaves & John Pelan.
A book where my favourite detective Sherlock Holmes enters the world of HP Lovecraft. That was enough to make me bring the book home.
And the book is good.  I'll admit to being all kinds of wary and was quite prepared to be disappointed but I'm not at all. Here's a tiny tour through the book.
We start with Neil Gaiman's Study In Emerald.
The tale is broken into chapters, each of with begins with a wicked little advert that puts a new spin on old legends such as Dr Henry Jekyll and Victor Frankenstein. In this tale Holmes and Watson meet for the first time in St Bart's and move in together in a London that is unlike the one we think we know. Here the Queen is an Elder God. And a murderer is loose. Someone has killed the Queen's nephew. The walls are splashed with emerald blood and the game is afoot. The moon is crimson and someone wants the old world order back. Someone feels that mankind should hold his destiny in his own hands and that someone is killing Them of. And the murderer is an opponent worthy of Holmes. |
But I must point out that the main characters of the story aren't Watson and Holmes. A clue is in the initials of the narrator...
Apparently the book is horribly copy-edited -- Gaiman noted in his blog that lots of errors had crept into his text, and Caitlín Kiernan apparently posted her story on the web to show people what it
should have looked like.