Since reading this title, I have discovered many more books on the subject. I purchased this because it was on sale so completely obvious to the whole Cthulhu/Holmes fandom that it seems to exist. I also want a few of the Lovecraftian tales, so merging them seems to be a match made in heaven. To the point that I may have to revisit them soon. Forces that can be summoned, if one is brave – or mad – enough to dare…Īs a late teen, I remember reading the Sherlock holmes story and enjoying them. Yet both he and Watson are soon forced to accept that there are forces at work far more powerful than they could ever have imagined. Holmes deduces a connection between the deaths and a sinister drug lord who is seeking to expand his criminal empire. Moreover, there are disturbing reports of creeping shadows that inspire dread in any who stray too close. Several bodies have been found, the victims appearing to have starved to death over several weeks, and yet they were reported alive and well mere days before. Badly injured and desperate to forget a nightmarish expedition that left him doubting his sanity, Watson is close to destitution when he meets the extraordinary Sherlock Holmes, who is investigating a series of deaths in the Shadwell district of London.
Title: Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadowsīlurb: It is the autumn of 1880, and Dr John Watson has just returned from Afghanistan. What happens when Watson and Holmes come face to face with Cosmic Horrors? Everyone's favourite detective will face off against Lovecraftian threats in the opening title of a new to me series by James Lovegrove. Dusting off the old Kindle to delve into an intriguing re-imagining of Sherlock Holmes. It is only by learning what truly happened on that fateful New England voyage that Holmes and Watson will uncover the truth, and learn who is behind the Miskatonic monstrosity.Time for something a little different. Yet how has he ended up in London, without his wits? And when the man is taken from Bedlam by forces beyond normal mortal comprehension, it becomes clear that there is far more to the case than one disturbed Bostonian. The detectives discover that the inmate was once a scientist, a student of Miskatonic University, and one of two survivors of a doomed voyage down the Miskatonic River to capture the semi-mythical shoggoth. Moreover, the man is horribly scarred and has no memory of who he is. Yet the companions do not hesitate when they are called to the infamous Bedlam lunatic asylum, where they find an inmate speaking in R'lyehian, the language of the Old Ones. It is the spring of 1895, and more than a decade of combating eldritch entities has cost Dr John Watson his beloved wife Mary, and nearly broken the health of Sherlock Holmes. The stunning new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Odin, in which the worlds of Arthur Conan Doyle and H.P.
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