I picked up a new book yesterday. It is called Shadows Over Baker Street.
"Sherlock Holmes enters the nightmare world of H. P. Lovecraft"
From the back cover:
What would happen if Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's peerless detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his allies were to find themselves faced with Lovecraftian musteries whose solutions lay not only beyond the grasp of logic, but beyond sanity itself? In this collection of original tales, twenty of today's cutting-edge writers provide answers to that burning question
It seems pretty interesting. The writers include Neil Gaiman, Brian Stableford, Poppy Z. Brite, Barbara Hambly, Steve Perry, and Caitlin R. Kiernan.
A Study in Emerald - Neil Gaiman Tiger! Tiger! - Elizabeth Bear The Case of the Wavy Black Dagger - Steve Perry A Case of Royal Blood - Steven-Elliot Altman The Weeping Masks - James Lowder Art in the Blood - Brian Stableford The Curious Case of Miss Violet Stone - Poppy Z. Brite & David Ferguson The Adventure of the Antiquarian’s Niece - Barbara Hambly The Mystery of the Worm - John Pelan The Mystery of the Hanged Man’s Puzzle - Paul Finch The Horror of the Many Faces - Tim Lebbon The Adventure of the Arab’s Manuscript - Michael Reaves The Drowned Geologist - Caitlín R. Kiernan A Case of Insomnia - John P. Vourlis The Adventure of the Voorish Sign - Richard A. Lupoff The Adventure of Exham Priory - F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre Death Did Not Become Him - David Niall Wilson & Patricia Lee Macomber Nightmare in Wax - Simon Clark
i dug it. i bought it when i was unemployed and, having nothing to do all day, finished it in a jiffy.
(not an actual "jiffy," but you now...a jiffy.)
Jesus Prime: have you read any of Michael Marshall Smith's stuff? i would recommend ONLY FORWARD or ONE OF US. not detective stories, but they're close enough to using the same 'voice.'
Jesus Prime wrote:Horror and detectives tend not to work, in my opinion. Even Poe couldn't interest me in Marie Roget.
I don't know about mixing horror with detectives, but "Roget" is definitely the weakest and longest of the Dupin stories. "Rue Morgue" and "Purloined Letter" are much better.
Lovecraft did say though that at one time he modeled his writing on Arthur Conan Doyle's detective stories. It may be that little of that bleeds through in the gradual discovery process and/or "piecing together" of his later stories--Call of Cthulhu, Mountains of Madness, Whisperer.
BTW, Marie Roget is based on an actual unsolved case, as sensational at the time as Jon-Benet Ramsey.
Poe presents a possible solution, which might have gotten him into a spot of disfavor had he not couched it as fiction.
Look up his little known short, "The Assignation", little known, but as macabre a bit of romantic claptrap as might be desired.
I would get that book but David Niall Wilson sucks, but getting the book for Paul Finch though is another story. I published Finch on the second anthology. Finch is a good writer. I read him on the Cyberpulp anthology.
Online Publishing Company of Cthulhu Mythos Writer, NICKOLAUS A. PACIONE. Dirty Black Winter is out now the career spanding collection. An Eye In Shadows is available on Amazon.com and Lulu.com.
I saw that book recently in waterstones and decided against buying it since I don't really have any enthusiasm or knowlegde for sherlock holmes and/or detective stories.
However in this months Fortean Times there's a favourable review of a new computer game called Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened which conciously combines HPL and Sherlock Homles and looks interesting. Doubt it could live up to "dark corners" though.... (I really love that game)
