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Shadows Over Baker Street

by · 2003

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Sherlock Holmesenters the nightmare world of H.P. Lovecraft

New Tales of Terror!

What would happen if Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's peerless detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his allies were to find themselves faced with Lovecraftian mysteries whose solutions lay not only beyond the grasp of logic, but beyond sanity itself. In this collection of original tales, twenty of today's cutting-edge writers provide answers to that burning question.

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Contributors include Neil Gaiman, Brian Stableford, Poppy Z. Bright, Barbara Hambly, Steve Perry, and Caitlin R. Kierman. These and other masters of horror, mystery, fantasy and science fiction spin dark tales within a terrifyingly surreal universe.

Includes the Hugo Award-winning story A Study in Emeraldby Neil Gaiman.

Cover design: David Stevenson

Cover Illustration: John Jude Palencar

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horrorhorrorMore like thisLess of thisBritish mysteryBritish mysteryMore like thisLess of thismysterymysteryMore like thisLess of thisfantasyfantasyMore like thisLess of thiscosmic horrorcosmic horrorMore like thisLess of this
Themes
gothicgothicMore like thisLess of this
Setting
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Audience
adultyoung adult
Length
long · 438 pages
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