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It is the autumn of 1880, and Dr John Watson has just returned from Afghanistan. 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…

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The first of Lovegrove’s Cthulhu Casebooks series. This was my introduction to the idea of a mash-up between classic and modern stories.

In Shadwell Shadows we see the brilliant Holmes and loyal Watson that everyone is familiar with, but Lovegrove takes the characters and shakes up their worlds.

He takes their documented histories and adds new, darker elements among the old. These are the hidden stories which Watson could never commit to paper for fear of what they would do to humanity.

What if, while pursuing Doctor Moriarity, Holmes and Watson were actually on the trail of something much older…

Another Sherlock Holmes book featuring an encounter with the horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos. This time however, we have a full-length novel rather than a collection of short stories. This novel retells Watson’s first encounter with Holmes, adding the horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos to the venerable doctor’s past. An almost destitute Watson, on the tip of losing his sanity, meets Holmes and together they set about investigating a series of strange murders. From here they encounter a criminal empire with a drug lord at its center, and dark forces beyond human comprehension. I cannot get enough of Holmes versus…

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