Meet the strange detectives! Dr. Drayk solves a mystery from another continent that haunts an English lord. Delamare and Bainbridge have four adventures involving everything from white hands that appear in the night to werewolves and faeries that seek a young woman to create a new age of evil. The Athenodorians are a secret group that guard the world from all things occult and nasty. Led by the dapper Baron von Klarnstein, we also meet his sword-swinging and aeroplane flying daughter, Orestia, Paul McNab and a host of others who cross America to find and stop “The Phantom Legion”. In the tradition of Sherlock Holmes to Doc Savage, this book is a Pulp homage filled with mystery and monsters.
contents:
PROLOGUE I
SCIENCE IS THE TREE OF DEATH
PROLOGUE II
WHOSE WHITENESS SO BECAME THEM
THE FORMS OF THINGS UNKNOWN
THE WOUNDS HIS BODY BEARS
CAMERA EXPLIQUE
PROLOGUE III
THE CASE OF THE PHANTOM LEGION Review
THE CASE OF THE BLUE MAN Review
EPILOGUE
AFTERWORD
From the Afterword:
When one finishes all the Sherlock Holmes stories you are faced with a choice. You can dust off your fingers and say, “Well done!” and move on. Or you can pick up the first faux Holmes you find. Whether that’s August Derleth Solar Pons or any number of new pastiches, it’s up to you. Second-hand Holmes is much like pastiche Conan (the barbarian, not Artie Doyle). The details are there but none of the fire.
There is a third choice. Michael Moorcock knows it. Alan Moore knows it. Kim Newman. Mark Gatiss. Guy Adams. Even Philip Jose Farmer knew it. You let all that fun mutate in your brain and you take it to the next level. This is not pastiching. I don’t try to write Conan Doyle. We are different people, separated by too many generations. My tongue is far too stuck in my cheek to ever be good Sherlock.
And then there are the monsters. Everything I write has monsters. Doyle liked monsters too but not in the Sherlock stories. The closest we got was a fake ghost hound or a poisonous snake. Still, his Monster of Blue John Gap was a corker. Which is just my way of saying that everything goes into the soup: detectives, monsters, Saki and his delightful sarcasm, old facts, strange ideas. It is best served hot (unlike revenge) with croutons.
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