I actually read a Holmes-Cthulhu crossover. That’ll show ya. Homes fans will read almost any pastiche if it is well done. I’m not sure about Holmes and this unpictured mammoth, don’tcha know. 🙂
Howdy: this series: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TB3B9K5 . James Lovegrove, and even though I tend to be a Holmesian “classicist,” (no shipping between Holmes and Watson, both men, boring regular old cases, no “Billy The Kid versus Dracula” stuff) I was desperate and these weren’t bad at all. It’s not as easy as one might hope, to find good Holmesian pastiches.
Dead easy to find sh***y ones. Harder to find really good ones. The Bonnie McBirds are okay.
I’m reading the Shadwell Shadows now. He carved quite a niche out for himself with Holmes. He really does write him quite faithfully to Doyle’s original style, I must say.
I like the Lovegroves and I adore that font, too. That’s an old Hallmark font, believe it or not; I had a copy of it made for myself, some years back. It’s effectively disappeared off the face of the planet, interestingly enough.
Have you tried the Bonnie MacBirds? (Love the covers they’ve done for those…)
RK@HM
3 years ago
With special guest Basil Rathbone!
…or Brent Spiner; I could have sworn that was Data in one of his holodeck programs there.
Yes. The nose is more Basil than Data, but the remainder of the face is more Data than Rathbone. And yes, that skintone definitely skews toward good old Data.
But where’s the murdered mammoth?!?
In the icebox. Don’t want the meat to spoil.
An almost decent cover image, at least as a concept (and even if it does recycle Basil), ruined by inept design and typography.
Wait a second! Volume 16?!? There are 15 other ones?
That is my understanding of how numbers work, yes.
Yes, there are 15 other ones…
Yikes.
A brief perusal of Mr. Pirillo’s oeuvre is certainly illuminating.
Frankly I would read a mystery involving Sherlock holmes and a mammoth
Hopefully it would have a more fun cover than this though
I actually read a Holmes-Cthulhu crossover. That’ll show ya. Homes fans will read almost any pastiche if it is well done. I’m not sure about Holmes and this unpictured mammoth, don’tcha know. 🙂
Neil Gaiman’s, or are there OTHER Holmes-Cthulhu crossovers?
Howdy: this series: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TB3B9K5 . James Lovegrove, and even though I tend to be a Holmesian “classicist,” (no shipping between Holmes and Watson, both men, boring regular old cases, no “Billy The Kid versus Dracula” stuff) I was desperate and these weren’t bad at all. It’s not as easy as one might hope, to find good Holmesian pastiches.
Dead easy to find sh***y ones. Harder to find really good ones. The Bonnie McBirds are okay.
I’m reading the Shadwell Shadows now. He carved quite a niche out for himself with Holmes. He really does write him quite faithfully to Doyle’s original style, I must say.
I like the Lovegroves and I adore that font, too. That’s an old Hallmark font, believe it or not; I had a copy of it made for myself, some years back. It’s effectively disappeared off the face of the planet, interestingly enough.
Have you tried the Bonnie MacBirds? (Love the covers they’ve done for those…)
…or Brent Spiner; I could have sworn that was Data in one of his holodeck programs there.
I agree. That is definitely more Data than Basil.
It’s the sepia skintone that does it.
Yes. The nose is more Basil than Data, but the remainder of the face is more Data than Rathbone. And yes, that skintone definitely skews toward good old Data.
“Data, data! I must have more data! I cannot make bricks without clay!”