Shadows Over Baker Street by Michael Reaves

(Irene Adler, Professor Moriarty, and Mycroft Holmes also appear, and some stories also incorporate real-life persons or fictional characters/literary references from Holmes' era, such as H. Most of the 18 stories here (by 20 writers -two are joint efforts) utilize Watson as a narrator, and all but one include Holmes as a character. (The antithetical character of the juxtaposition is more apparent than real: Doyle eschewed the supernatural in his Holmes stories but as Holmes observes in one of the stories here, we're dealing here with science, not magic -and Doyle's own Holmes stories sometimes find the great detective dealing with matters science-fictional.) ' The Adventure of Exham Priory' by F.Doyle's Sherlock Holmes canon and Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos have both long been favorite subjects for pastiches and given the number of contemporary writers who are fans of both, it's not surprising to find an anthology bringing them together.' The Adventure of the Voorish Sign' by Richard A.' The Drowned Geologist' by Caitlín R.' The Adventure of the Arab's Manuscript' by Michael Reaves.' The Horror of the Many Faces' by Tim Lebbon.' The Mystery of the Hanged Man's Puzzle' by Paul Finch.

' The Mystery of the Worm' by John Pelan.' The Adventure of the Antiquarian's Niece' by Barbara Hambly.' The Curious Case of Miss Violet Stone' by Poppy Z.' Art in the Blood' by Brian Stableford.' A Case of Royal Blood' by Steven-Elliot Altman.' The Case of the Wavy Black Dagger' by Steve Perry.It was first published in September 2003 by Ballantine Books' science fiction/fantasy imprint Del Rey Books. Neil Gaiman's ' A Study in Emerald', which won the 2004 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, first appeared in this collection.Įdited by Michael Reaves and John Pelan, who both contributed stories, Shadows Over Baker Street contains eighteen shorts and runs to 464 pages. Unlike in Doyle's original stories, where the supernatural is only used as red herring plot devices, here it is all too real.

464 Shadows Over Baker Street is a thematic anthology in which the stories blend the cases of Arthur Conan Doyle's master detective Sherlock Holmes with elements of the Cthulhu Mythos.

Shadows Over Baker Street by Michael Reaves