{"id":4924,"date":"2017-12-20T14:51:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T14:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/?p=4924"},"modified":"2017-12-22T18:07:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T18:07:20","slug":"holmes-morlocks-and-menace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/holmes-morlocks-and-menace\/","title":{"rendered":"Holmes, Morlocks and Menace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weird book time again, with the classic, the speculative and the psychological. Today we have the Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the Realms of H G Wells<\/em> anthology, the unfinished work of Philip Jose Farmer<\/strong> finished in A Hole in Wednesday<\/em>, and Knucklebones<\/em> by Marni Scofidio<\/strong>. And a quick offer from Matthew Wingett<\/strong>, whose excellent book The Snow Witch<\/em> we covered recently – (http:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/the-snow-witch\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Snow Day Offer<\/h2>\n

Let\u2019s do Matt first. He says:<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a batch of hardback copies of the book which I am offering at the price of the paperback. So, what should be \u00a319.99 is reduced to half price at \u00a39.99. If you’d like a nice presentation copy of The Snow Witch, you can order it here. Postage in the UK is free.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\"SnowWitchwoocommerceimg\"<\/a>Here’s the link: https:\/\/www.lifeisamazing.co.uk\/product\/the-snow-witch-a-portsmouth-novel-hardback-by-matt-wingett<\/a><\/p>\n

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Holmes Goes Mad in Dorset<\/h1>\n

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Now, that Sherlock Holmes book. Many are the variants on Holmes\u2019 adventures \u2013 straight canonical tales interwoven with the timeline of Arthur Conan Doyle\u2019s<\/strong> original stories; tales which hint of the weird or supernatural but stay within bounds, and tales which go wild with psychic monstrosities, Mythos madness and alternative timelines. Belanger Books have come up a rather neat idea this time, which is to blend Conan Doyle\u2019s detective with the speculative work of H G Wells<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Friends and contemporaries, both writers were published in The Strand Magazine<\/em> a number of times. October 1898, for example, saw the first publication of Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘Round the Fire’ story no. 5, ‘The Story of the Black Doctor’, illustrated by Joseph Finnemore, and of H.G. Wells’ ‘Mr Ledbetter’s Vacation’, illustrated by Shepperson.<\/p>\n

Perhaps of more significance, Wells’s The First Men in the Moon<\/em> and Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles<\/em> were serialised in The Strand, in 1900\/1901 and 1901 respectively, before publication as complete novels. So the concept is rather appropriate, and Belanger have assembled a wide range of writers to do it justice.<\/p>\n

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\u201cImagine Holmes trying to solve the case of an invisible man attacking London – matching wits with a traveler from out of time – tracking down a human\/feline hybrid – using his deductive skills to help fight Martian and lunar invaders! These are just some of the stories included in Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the Realms of H.G. Wells. This one-of-a-kind two volume anthology features traditional Sherlock Holmes stories blended with one or more tales from H.G. Wells including:<\/em><\/p>\n