James Lovegrove, Author . Solaris $7.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-84416-747-0
Ancient Egyptian gods have defeated other gods (including Jehovah, Allah, Odin and Zeus), and now specific dieties control various earthly power blocs in Lovegrove’s thought-provoking futuristic adventure. The gods gain strength from their...
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James Lovegrove. Titan (www.titanbooks.com), $14.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-781165-43-0
Lovegrove's second Holmes pastiche is more traditional than its steampunk predecessor, 2013's The Stuff of Nightmares, and is mostly successful at portraying Holmes and Watson in character. In 1913, the doctor visits his retired friend on the Sussex
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James Lovegrove. Titan (titanbooks.com), $14.95 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-783295-03-6
In Lovegrove's entertaining third Sherlock Holmes pastiche (after 2014's Sherlock Holmes: The Gods of War), Malcolm Quantock, a professor at Oxford's Balliol College, claims to have invented a machine that's capable of solving crimes, and Lord...
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James Lovegrove. Titan, $19.99 trade paper (440p) ISBN 978-1-783295-93-7
British author Lovegrove (Sherlock Holmes: The Thinking Engine) attempts a thorough revision of the canon in this trilogy kickoff, but fails to effectively blend the world of the uber-rational Holmes with that of Lovecraft’s cosmic horrors. In a...
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James Lovegrove. Titan, $14.95 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-785653-37-7
In Lovegrove’s middling fifth Sherlock Holmes pastiche (after 2016’s Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows), Sir Osbert Woolfson, a judge, consults the Baker Street duo after his beloved 29-year-old daughter, Hannah, disappears. Given Hannah’s...
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James Lovegrove. Titan, $19.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-783295-95-1
Tone problems mar Lovegrove’s sequel to 2016’s The Cthulhu Casebooks: Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows, an ambitious attempt to graft H.P. Lovecraft’s supernatural cosmic horror onto Sherlock Holmes’s hyper-rational Victorian world. In this...
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Edited by Martin Rosenstock. Titan, $14.95 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-785659-03-4
This high-quality Sherlock Holmes pastiche anthology collects seven original novellas, most of which succeed in recreating the tone and personalities of Conan Doyle’s originals. The most memorable entry, Lyndsay Faye’s “Our Common Correspondent,”...
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Edited by Martin Rosenstock. Titan, $15.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-789098-74-7
The 12 gifted contributors to Rosenstock’s outstanding second all-original anthology (after 2019’s Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Seven) each depict a different chapter in Holmes’s life. Standouts include the opener, Stuart Douglas’s “The Adventure of
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James Lovegrove. Titan, $19.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-785658-02-0
In December 1890, Eve Allerthorpe, the 20-year-old heroine of this stellar Sherlock Holmes pastiche from Lovegrove (Sherlock Holmes: The Labyrinth of Death), travels from her family’s estate in Yorkshire, Fellscar Keep, to London, where she has the...
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James Lovegrove. Titan, $14.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-789092-00-4
Lovegrove, the author of Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon, a superior novel-length pastiche, is just as adept at conveying the spirit of the Holmes canon in short form, as shown in this solid collection of 12 original and reprinted stories....
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James Lovegrove. Titan, $19.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-789094-69-5
In 1894, five years after the events of The Hound of the Baskervilles, a terrifying creature again plagues Sir Henry Baskerville in Lovegrove’s uneven second traditional novel-length pastiche (after 2019’s Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon). A
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James Lovegrove. Titan, $19.99 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-789096-71-2
Lovegrove’s clever third novel-length pastiche (after 2020’s Sherlock Holmes & the Beast of the Stapletons) links winter-time mysteries from different years, each involving members of one family. In 1889, Timothy Wragge, a teacher at the preparatory
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