"This Agency Stands Flat-Footed Upon The Ground"

Today's list: Sherlock Holmes stories and novels with a fantastic, science-fictional, or horrific twist.

Shadows Over Baker Street...Edited by Michael Reeves & John Pelan*

Sherlock Holmes Through Time And Space...Edited by Isaac Asimov

Sherlock Holmes In Orbit...Edited by Mike Resnik & Martin H. Greenberg

An East Wind Coming...Arthur Byron Cover

Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula...Loren D. Estleman**

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes...Loren D. Estleman

Seance For A Vampire...Fred Saberhagen***

*"Sherlock Holmes enters the dark, nightmare world of H. P. Lovecraft."

**Two different editions of this.

***Sequel to his The Holmes-Dracula Files.

"Those Narratives With Which You Have Afflicted A Long-Suffering Public"

I believe it was Loren D. Estleman who said somewhere that if Dr. Watson had written all the tales that have been posthumously assigned to him he would never have had time to actually join Sherlock Holmes on his cases. Here are some volumes of such collected efforts. There is no telling how many repetitions of tales are in these collections.

The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes...Collected by Peter Haining*

The Lost Adventures of Sherlock Holmes...Ken Greenwood**

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes...Collected by Roger Lancelyn Green

The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes...Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr

The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes...Edited by Marvin Kaye

The Game Is Afoot...Edited by Marvin Kaye

The Secret Cases of Sherlock Holmes...Donald Thomas

My Sherlock Holmes...Edited by Michael Kurland

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes...Edited by Martin Harry Greenburgh & Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh


*Three different copies of this.
**Two copies of this; the stories are based on radio scripts by Denis Green and Anthony Boucher, featuring the talents of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.

"What Ineffable Twaddle!"

Today's list of books: novels in the Baker Street Continuum.

The Return of Moriarity, by John Gardner*

The Revenge of Moriarity, by John Gardner

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, by Nicholas Meyer**

The Revenge of the Hound, by Michael Hardwick

Prisoner of the Devil, by Michael Hardwick

The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, by Michael Dibdin

Sherlock Holmes and the Thistle of Scotland, by L. B. Greenwood

The Moor, by Laurie R. King

Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery, by Larry Millett

Enter the Lion, by Michael P. Hodel & Sean M. Wright

The Case of the Baker Street Irregular, by Robert Newman

The Whitechapel Horrors, by Edward B. Hanna

A Samba for Sherlock, by Jo Soares

Against the Brotherhood, by Quinn Fawcett***


*Not the Grendel John Garnder, another guy.
**Two copies of this one, different covers.
***As usual, normal type for paperbacks, italics for soft covers, and bold for hardbacks.

"A Battered Tin Dispatch Box"

When my sister and her family returned from their yearly visit to Florida, they came bearing two plastic eighteen gallon tubs from my brother Kenny. One had a bizarre collection that included a huge colonial American flag, a quilted smoking cap, and a rubber bendy monk. The other had a load of approximately fifty books, most of them about Sherlock Holmes. Kenny had received them as part of a legacy from a good friend of his who had recently, tragically passed away way too soon, and he sent them to me as a fitting home with a Holmes enthusiast. I'm going to spend the next few posts cataloging them.

The first group consists of books about Sherlock Holmes and his world.

The Encyclopedia Sherlockiana and The Ultimate Sherlock Holmes Encyclopedia, by Jack Tracy. Both really the same book, published in slightly different format. I actually already have a third, paperback edition of this.

The Sherlock Holmes Encyclopedia, by Orlando Park. Much the same, but less detailed and no illustrations.

Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street, by William S. Baring-Gould. Famous 1962 fictional biography of Holmes, by the same man who produced the annotated Sherlock Holmes. Full of interesting metafictional fancies, such as the claim that Holmes was the father (by Irene Adler) of Nero Wolfe.

Sherlock Holmes by Gas-Lamp: Highlights from the First Four Decades of The Baker Street Journal, edited by Philip A. Shreffler. From the proceedings of the premier Sherlockian organization.

A Sherlock Holmes Companion, Edited by Peter Haining. An eclectic scrapbook of puzzles, ponderings, parodies, and pictures featuring the great detective collected by one of the greatest fanboys to ever live.

The Films of Sherlock Holmes, by Chris Steinbrunner and Norman Michaels. An older book that ends in about the mid-Seventies. As such, it is interesting as a snapshot of a time, and of Holmes from a certain point of view in time.

Sherlock Holmes & much more, by Doris E. Cook. A book on the actor William Gillette, with special emphasis on his career as the first famous personator of Sherlock Holmes.

The next group: novels written in the Holmesian vein.