Horror trash, oh well! It was fun… Had that on my shelf for ages. Must have bought it when I went through my Anne Rice period. Holmes meets Dracula and they end up chasing some bad guys doing sinister things with rats, involving the plague. ( )

In London on a personal matter, Dracula encounters Sherlock Holmes, who is attempting to catch a killer and stop a ring of criminal masterminds who are threatening to loose plague-infested rats into the streets. Reissue.

Reviewer: lawcopdoc@ibm.net (Tustin, CA) - See all my reviews
In this phenomenal hybridization, Dracula makes his 2nd visit to Victorian London (his 1st being the original Stoker novel). Here he becomes embroiled in an unpublished Sherlock Holmes adventure featuring the heretofore unseen "giant rat of Sumatra." Saberhagen stays faithful to the original characterizations of both Doyle and Stoker, and intermixes the two in a fascinating adventure which, after reading the first several chapters, you will not be able to put down. A real page turner. ( )

Sherlock Holmes has a new client, a young American woman who has come to England in search of her fiance. Her fiance, a doctor, had been in the south seas where he was doing some medical research involving plague. The reason she came to England was that recently he had been sighted there, and a shipment of equipment that he was supposed to have picked up had arrived and been stolen. So this puts Holmes on the case. Meanwhile, a gang of crooks down at the waterfront has chosen a victim for its own nefarious purposes, but they picked the wrong guy to mess with, because the victim turns out to be Count Dracula. He has, at the beginning of the story, lost his memory and so has no vampire awareness nor does he know who he is.

Eventually the two storylines intertwine and Count Dracula and Sherlock Holmes form an uneasy partnership.

Very fun story. However, you might want to read The Dracula Tape before you read this one so that Count Dracula's story makes more sense to you. ( )

Revisionist view of both characters by a science-fiction writer, based on the Giant Rat of Sumatra.