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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Dec 19, 2009 22:51:59 GMT
I've already mentioned this one in the They That Dwell thread, but now Dark Regions Press have just made my second book available for pre-order - The Impossible Casebook of Sherlock Holmes - a quartet of novella length accounts of the detective's encounters with the uncanny and the supernatural. (I say my book, but really my main input was to transcribe a number of documents written by the late Dr. John H. Watson, which were found in sealed envelopes in a battered old tin dispatch box earlier in the year (full details of the discovery are in the book's foreword). This has taken some months, since the good doctor's handwriting was practically indecipherable in places - though I hope the few places where I had to fill in the blanks are consistent with the original accounts.) www.darkregions.com/sherlock_holmes.html
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Jun 29, 2010 18:41:39 GMT
('Great Scott,' cried Holmes, 'I deduce that devilish fiend McGachey's indulging in another piece of shameless self promotion. Hand me your old service revolver, Watson, and be quick about it!')My Holmes book - now retitled Sherlock Holmes - The Impossible Cases - is due to start shipping this week. Featuring four novellas in which the world's foremost detective encounters mysteries which may not be quite of this world, a preface by Dr Watson detailing his companion's insistence that these memoirs be repressed, and the background to the discovery of these long-concealed accounts. www.darkregions.com/products/Sherlock-Holmes-The-Impossible-Cases-by-Daniel-McGachey.htmlI'm very excited about seeing this in print. And I'm grateful to Larry Albert and Jim French for providing CDs of the 75 minute version of the Imagination Theater production of one of the stories - The Voice in the Smoke - signed by John Patrick Lowrie and Larry Albert, I.T.'s Holmes and Watson, which will go out to purchasers of the Deluxe Edition. jimfrenchproductions.com/zc137m/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1052&zenid=dpg7tfo577f1d5567otoelm123
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Post by dem bones on Jun 29, 2010 21:44:25 GMT
... to give it a bit more oomph Daniel McGachey - Sherlock Holmes: The Impossible Cases (Dark Regions, June, 2010) M Wayne Miller Blurb: When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
In these recently discovered accounts, sealed and hidden from prying eyes for almost eighty years, Dr. John H. Watson puts pen to paper once more, as he accompanies his friend, that most rational of detectives, Mr. Sherlock Holmes in the utterly irrational realm of the otherworldly, the uncanny, and the supernatural.
Enter the gaslit world of Holmes and Watson - a world caught halfway between the bright glare of science and logic and the darker clutches of superstition and fear - a world of unknown creatures, secret seances, ancient curses, and forbidden knowledge - where the enquiring mind of the world's first consulting detective must search for the answer to some new and challenging questions...
What was it about the loathsome contents of a match-box that sent an apparently fearless man stark staring mad?
How can Sherlock Holmes be called upon to investigate a murder where the victim is his client, and where the murder has already taken place?
What is it that lies in the darkness of an ancient burial mound, and can it really bring about death to any who would disturb its resting place?
Can mere words in a stolen manuscript really open men's minds to maddeningly terrifying visions of a world beyond our own?
In order to find the solutions to these problems, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson may yet discover that sometimes it is not so easy to eliminate the impossible!very well done, lurks!
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 29, 2010 22:26:54 GMT
Excellent. Well done Lurker. Looks like it could be a real winner
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Jul 14, 2010 18:40:17 GMT
Thanks, Craig, and thanks for posting up the cover and blurb, Dem. Got my copies last week, and, if anything, I'm even more pleased with the traditional looking hardback, which has the feel of a real vintage book (and also has Wayne Miller's 'Red Barrow Horror' cover art as a frontispiece).
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