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Publisher Comments:

Sherlock Holmes enters the dark nightmare world of H P Lovecraft.

Review:

"[A] smartly conceived collection....A few clunkers aside: a very entertaining volume." Kirkus Reviews

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"Here's a real treat for fans of Sherlock Holmes, H. P. Lovecraft, and everyone in between....The stories...are uniformly excellent, and the book, authorized by the Doyle estate, is a welcome addition to the Holmes canon." David Pitt, Booklist

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"[Doyle and Lovecraft] were masters of mood and suggestion, qualities in short supply in this anthology....The more successful tales tend to adhere to traditional Holmesian scenarios..." Publishers Weekly

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"A brilliant blend of literary styles..." Library Journal

Synopsis:

Sherlock Holmes steps into the nightmare world of H.P. Lovecraft in these tales of mystery and terror.

Synopsis:

The terrifyingly surreal universe of horror master H. P. Lovecraft bleeds into the logical world of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's champion of rational deduction — in these brand-new stories by twenty of today's top horror, mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writers, including:

? Steven-Elliot Altman
? Elizabeth Bear
? Poppy Z. Brite
? Simon Clark
? David Ferguson
? Paul Finch
? Neil Gaiman
? Barbara Hambly
? Caitlin R. Kiernan
? Tim Lebbon
? James Lowder
? Richard A. Lupoff
? F. Gwynplaine McIntyre
? John Pelan
? Steve Perry
? Michael Reaves
? Brian Stableford
? John P. Vourlis
? David Niall Wilson & Patricia Lee Macomber

About the Author

Michael Reaves is a renowned screenwriter who has written, edited, and/or produced more than three hundred teleplays for various television series, including Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Twilight Zone, Sliders, and Monsters. He was also a story editor and writer on Batman: The Animated Series, for which he won an Emmy Award for writing in 1993. He has worked for Spielberg’s DreamWorks, among other studios, and is the author of several fantasy novels and supernatural thrillers, including Hell on Earth and the New York Times bestselling Star Wars novel, Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter. Reaves lives in Los Angeles.

John Pelan is an acclaimed author whose fiction includes the Lovecraftian novella The Colour out of Darkness. He is the editor of such groundbreaking anthologies as Darkside: Horror for the Next Millennium, The Devil Is Not Mocked, and The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique. His solo stories have appeared in publications such as The Urbanite, Gothic.net, Enigmatic Tales, and Carpe Noctem. He is the founder of the publishing house Darkside Press, and cofounder of Midnight House. He lives in Seattle.

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Table of Contents

Introduction
A Study in Emerald (1881) 1
Tiger! Tiger! (1882) 25
The Case of the Wavy Black Dagger (1884) 48
A Case of Royal Blood (1888) 60
The Weeping Masks (1890) 94
Art in the Blood (1892) 116
The Curious Case of Miss Violet Stone (1894) 138
The Adventure of the Antiquarian's Niece (1894) 158
The Mystery of the Worm (1894) 189
The Mystery of the Hanged Man's Puzzle (1897) 205
The Horror of the Many Faces (1898) 243
The Adventure of the Arab's Manuscript (1898) 268
The Drowned Geologist (1898) 295
A Case of Insomnia (1899) 313
The Adventure of the Voorish Sign (1899) 342
The Adventure of Exham Priory (1901) 372
Death did not Become Him (1902) 392
Nightmare in Wax (1915) 420
Contributors 439

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ISBN:
9780345455284
Editor:
Reaves, Michael
Editor:
Pelan, John
Author:
Michael Reaves and John Pelan, Editors
Publisher:
Random House
Location:
New York
Subject:
Science Fiction - General
Subject:
Anthologies (multiple authors)
Subject:
Detective and mystery stories
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - Anthologies
Subject:
Horror fiction
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - Sherlock Holmes
Subject:
Fantasy fiction
Subject:
Horror - Anthologies
Subject:
Horror - General
Copyright:
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Series Volume:
no. 22
Publication Date:
September 30, 2003
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
464
Dimensions:
8.54x5.84x1.39 in. 1.30 lbs.

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