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Loading... Shadows Over Baker Street: New Tales of Terror!by Michael Reaves
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Varying quality by author. Occasional skanky race issues seemed to be inherited from Lovecraft himself. (  )nilchance | May 21, 2009 |   An uneven collection, with the elements from Lovecraft's work and the Sherlock Holmes canon mixing well only occasionally. Highlights are: Steve-Elliot Altman's "A Case of Royal Blood" (atmospheric, with a mystery at its center rather than just the appearance of one), James Lowder's "The Weeping Masks" (a nice lead-up to truly horrific happenings, keeping me engrossed until the end), Barbara Hambly's "The Adventure of the Antiquarian's Niece" (Masterful use of the bait--n-switch. Poor Watson), and John Vourlis' "A Case of Insomnia" (creepy and chilling, with elements from Lovecraft and Doyle mixed very well). Honorable mentions: Neil Gaiman's "A Study in Emerald" (wonderfully done, but too reliant on a reader's intimate knowledge of the source material, for which I docked points), Elizabeth Bear's "Tiger! Tiger!" (more Lovecraft meets Indian Safari Adventure, but Irene Adler is a force to behold), and Poppy Z. Brite & David Ferguson's "The Curious Case of Miss Violet Stone" (so much a companion/counter piece to "The Shadow Out of Time", but with the inherent hopefulness that results from introducing a hero - Holmes - to the universe). (  )StoryJ | Feb 2, 2008 | Being a great fan of Sherlock Holmes and being also of the opinion that the tales of H.P.Lovecraft are excellent examples of the Horror genre I was really looking forward to reading this book. What a great disappointment. Apart from 'A Study in Emerald' by Neil Gaiman,who had really got the style of both Doyle and Lovecraft exactly right and 'Tiger! Tiger!' by Elizabeth Bear they were pretty awful. (and not awful in the right way either) In fact as I forced myself through the stories (were there really only 18 of them,seemed more like 118) it became increasingly more difficult to finish the book.It seems that by the author mentioning Holmes and adding a bit of horror to each of their stories,they seemed to think that that was good enough. The fact that in most cases the so-called horror had nothing of the style of Lovecraft and the so-called detection certainly had nothing of Conan Doyle seemed not to have entered into their heads at all. The star rating is given for the 2 stories mentioned,otherwise a ½ would be about it I think. (  )devenish | Sep 2, 2007 | Anothologies like this are usually hit-or-miss, but this one is pretty consistently entertaining throughout. ( )bhalpin | Jul 6, 2007 | A fairly average collection, apart from the Gaiman and Bear, and the odd other story, some of them missing the point in both milieu. Shadows Over Baker Street : 01 A Study in Emerald - Neil Gaiman Shadows Over Baker Street : 02 Tiger! Tiger! - Elizabeth Bear Shadows Over Baker Street : 03 The Case of the Wavy Black Dagger - Steve Perry Shadows Over Baker Street : 04 A Case of Royal Blood - Steven-Elliot Altman Shadows Over Baker Street : 05 The Weeping Masks - James Lowder Shadows Over Baker Street : 06 Art in the Blood - Brian Stableford Shadows Over Baker Street : 07 The Curious Case of Miss Violet Stone - Poppy Z. Brite and David Ferguson Shadows Over Baker Street : 08 The Adventure of the Antiquarian's Niece - Barbara Hambly Shadows Over Baker Street : 09 The Mystery of the Worm - John Pelan Shadows Over Baker Street : 10 The Mystery of the Hanged Man's Puzzle - Paul Finch Shadows Over Baker Street : 11 The Horror of the Many Faces - Tim Lebbon Shadows Over Baker Street : 12 The Adventure of the Arab's Manuscript - Michael Reaves Shadows Over Baker Street : 13 The Drowned Geologist - Caitlín R. Kiernan Shadows Over Baker Street : 14 A Case of Insomnia - John P. Vourlis Shadows Over Baker Street : 15 The Adventure of the Voorish Sign - Richard A. Lupoff Shadows Over Baker Street : 16 The Adventure of Exham Priory - F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre Shadows Over Baker Street : 17 Death Did Not Become Him - David Niall Wilson and Patricia Lee Macomber Shadows Over Baker Street : 18 Nightmare in Wax - Simon Clark Old One vaudeville and some monstrous advertising. 4 out of 5 The Colonel helps the Woman bring about a change in the weather. Or, Hastur la Monsoon, baby. 4 out of 5 Bali blade babe, thinks SH. 3.5 out of 5 H.G. also on the case, but not Roy. Necronomicons and Nameless Cults are not the proper reading material for a cultured young princess. 3 out of 5 Watson, some ugly priests and an ugly older thing, and the tale of the Jezail bullet. 3 out of 5 Brothers Holmes ponder seaman's Elder Gods story. 2.5 out of 5 Girl's slimming Great One possession leads to coked up engineering binge. 3 out of 5 Cthulhoid cult prompts portable power. 3 out of 5 Nikola's metal munching nightcrawlers. 3 out of 5 A dead man upset at lack of rescue gives a clue to Holmes and Watson that leads them to face Innsmouth residents and a Gatling gun. 3 out of 5 Holmes horrified enough to mention love to Watson. 2.5 out of 5 War-time nurse takes Necronomicon reconstruction way, way too far. Bang. 3.5 out of 5 Palaeontologist in Whitby gets to see the wreck of the Demeter, but luckily for him, no Drac, just Dagon detritus. 3 out of 5 Beasts from the Void the cause of Sleepless in Inswich. 3 out of 5 Squatters are one thing, but it is decidedly beyond the pale when the Dark Temple takes up residence in the ancestral family home. 3.5 out of 5 Moriarty worse than advertised, had Cthulhoid disposal plans for Holmes at Reichenbach. 3.5 out of 5 Watson hires Holmes himself, gets Golem stuff. 2 out of 5 Undercover Holmes prevent Moriarty from expanding Cthulhoid library. 3 out of 5 http://superprose.blogspot.com/2007/0... ( )bluetyson | Jun 9, 2007 | 0.078 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0345452739, Paperback)Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes is among the most famous literary figures of all time. For more than a hundred years, his adventures have stood as imperishable monuments to the ability of human reason to penetrate every mystery, solve every puzzle, and punish every crime.For nearly as long, the macabre tales of H. P. Lovecraft have haunted readers with their nightmarish glimpses into realms of cosmic chaos and undying evil. But what would happen if Conan Doyle’s peerless detective and his allies were to find themselves faced with mysteries whose solutions lay not only beyond the grasp of logic, but of sanity itself. In this collection of all-new, all-original tales, twenty of today’s most cutting edge writers provide their answers to that burning question. “A Study in Emerald” by Neil Gaiman: A gruesome murder exposes a plot against the Crown, a seditious conspiracy so cunningly wrought that only one man in all London could have planned it–and only one man can hope to stop it. “A Case of Royal Blood” by Steven-Elliot Altman: Sherlock Holmes and H. G. Wells join forces to protect a princess stalked by a ghost–or perhaps something far worse than a ghost. “Art in the Blood” by Brian Stableford: One man’s horrific affliction leads Sherlock Holmes to an ancient curse that threatens to awaken the crawling chaos slumbering in the blood of all humankind. “The Curious Case of Miss Violet Stone” by Poppy Z. Brite and David Ferguson: A girl who has not eaten in more than three years teaches Holmes and Watson that sometimes the impossible cannot be eliminated. “The Horror of the Many Faces” by Tim Lebbon: Dr. Watson witnesses a maniacal murder in London–and recognizes the villain as none other than his friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes. With these and fourteen other dark tales of madness, horror, and deduction, a new and terrible game is afoot. 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 From the Hardcover edition. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:16 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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