Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes
by Barbara Hambly, Kim Newman, Barbara Roden, Bob Madison, Christopher Sequeira, Chris Roberson, Peter Calamai
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Author: Barbara Hambly, Barbara Roden, Bob Madison, Chris Roberson, Christopher Sequeira, Kim Newman, Peter CalamaiEditor: Jeff Campbell
Editor: Charles Prepolec
Foreword: David Stuart Davies
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-10-01
ISBN: 1894063171
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
Book Reviews of Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes
Book Review: "It's been good to have an adventure with you. . . . They never let girls." --Mary Watson
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this book in Toronto because it had a Kim Newman story ("The Red Planet League") I hadn't seen before. I'll buy any Kim Newman story I see.
Like all of Newman's work, this story is entertaining, with allusions to classic Victorian science fiction and fantasy and 1950s Hollywood versions of it. It doesn't have the social criticism of Newman's best work (for instance the Zorro-werewolf story "Out of the Night, When the Full Moon is Bright" in The Mammoth Book of Werewolves (The Mammoth Book Series), or any of his stories about the Flower Power Antichrist Derek Leech, such as "Another Fish Story" in The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club), but the story does have the original idea of Professor Moriarty as hero with his criminal compatriot Colonel Moran as his biographer, à la Doctor Watson.
Several stories in Gaslight Grimoire have Holmes and Watson interacting with other heroes of their time, like Hesketh Pritchard's Flaxman Low and William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki the Ghost Finder.
My favorite story in this collection is Barbara Hambly's "The Lost Boy," which has a different Watson as narrator, and shows Holmes responding emotionally to a woman in a way that's consistent with the misogyny of the Conan Doyle stories. At the end of this story I felt sorry for two characters--three if you count the boy who never grew up.
The ending of the second story in the book, Christopher Sequeira's "His Last Arrow," completely surprised me. If you've ever wondered why Holmes can solve mysteries that are incomprehensible to everyone else, the answer is here.
"The Finishing Stroke" by M. J. Elliott will appeal to anyone who, like me, is fascinated by the various versions of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. (ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS: If that includes you, you should read Will Self's novel Dorian: An Imitation and see the movie Pact With the Devil starring Malcolm McDowell.)
All the stories in Gaslight Grimoire are enjoyable at the very least, and the book reminds me of what Oscar Wilde said: I can believe anything as long as it's truly incredible.
Summary of Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes
The fabled tin dispatch box of Dr. John H. Watson opens to reveal eleven all new tales of mystery and dark fantasy. Sherlock Holmes, master of deductive reasoning, confronts the irrational, the unexpected and the fantastic in the weird worlds of the Gaslight Grimoire.
"A wonderful addition to the bookshelf of any fan of
Sherlock Holmes or of the supernatural. Terrific stories, great variety, genuine
chills: it's all here."
- Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of HOMINIDS
"This book contains eleven of the most ingenious, imaginative and inspired
exploits yet committed to paper. Wonderful stuff!"
- Roger Johnson, BSI, Editor, The Sherlock Holmes Journal
Contributors:
Barbara Hambly
Christopher Sequeira
Barbara Roden
M. J. Elliott
Martin Powell
Chico Kidd & Rick Kennett
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