Shadows Over Baker Street: New Tales of Terror!, (Paperback)

from storyjunkie

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 ...

from Move_and_Merge

Much as I hate to admit it, Gaiman's story, "A Study in Emerald," which opens the collection, is utterly brilliant. It melds the content and narrative styles of H. P. Lovecraft and Conan Doyle more nicely than I thought possible. If you've never read "A Study in Scarlet," do so first. As an antho...

from TheRavenking

18 Geschichten, in denen Sherlock Holmes auf übernatürliche Schrecken trifft, die der Phantasie H. P. Lovecrafts hätten entstammen können. Ob diese Kombination Sinn ergibt oder nicht, darüber lässt sich sicherlich streiten, aber mittlerweile hat man versucht den Meisterdetektiv in jedes erdenklic...

from nilchance

Varying quality by author. Occasional skanky race issues seemed to be inherited from Lovecraft himself.

from RandyStafford

Originally I was going to pass on this collection since the concept sounded too gimmicky. But then I read and was impressed by the odd mood of Neil Gaiman's award-winning "A Study in Emerald", so I decided to give it a try. Besides no less reverential a Lovecraft scholar than Peter Cannon combine...