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James Lovegrove wrote a three books "alternate history" in which Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson encountered the Cthulhu Mythos, starting with The Shadwell Shadows. I thought he did a pretty good job of bringing those not entirely dissimilar worlds together.
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anilEhilated posted:That may be, but it's not horror. They're bog-standard adventure romps with props borrowed from Lovecraft. The premise of the Holmes stories being sanitized versions of what really happened is cool but the books never capitalize on it. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I thought the books did an excellent job of creating and maintaining a Lovecraftian atmosphere of dread and not quite hopelessness. It was interesting to see Watson contrasting the way things appeared in the stories with the hosed up circumstances of how things actually were. The trilogy kind of makes me want to head over to RPoL.net and see if I can find a Cthulhu by Gaslight game that's active and accepting players. I figure that if True Detective Season One and The Immortal Hulk count, this trilogy (and it is a trilogy with a beginning middle and end) should certainly count as well. Meanwhile I'm expecting the latest in Jonathan Maberry's Joe Ledger series to arrive Nov. 5 After starting out as an action/syfy-horror series, it's introduced several elements that seem to be slowly turning it into something out of Delta Green. That is very much a good thing. Everyone fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Oct 30, 2019 |
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Oct 30, 2019 22:58
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Drunken Baker posted:Just a little thing I was pondering the other day thinking back on Brian Hodge's "World of Hurt". What's the crossover where theological horror becomes cosmic? The path to cosmic Ant Hell runs through the boner.
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