Crossover of the Week

Winter 2019

KICKIN’ THE WILLY BOBO WITH...DILLON 

Author Derrick Ferguson interviews his “character” Dillon. Asked what living person he most admires, Dillon names Dr. Harry Wolper, who he studied under at the Northfield Institute for Advanced Research in California. He also mentions the North African country of Khusra. Dillon’s most treasured possession is a portrait of his mother that formerly hung in the New York branch of the Baltimore Gun Club, which he saw when he was there looking for Jim Anthony. When Ferguson asks Dillon his favorite writers, he responds with a long list: Jackson Bentley, Henry Chinaski, Jessica Fletcher, Jason King, Garth Marenghi, Robin Masters, Thom E. Gemcity, Kilgore Trout, and Nathan Zuckerman. 

Metafictional interview included in the introduction to Derrick Ferguson’s book Dillon Annual Collection 2019, Pro Se Productions, 2019. Dr. Harry Wolper is from the movie Creator. Besides Dillon’s adventures, Khusra also appears in the stories of Ferguson’s 1930s adventurer Fortune McCall. The Baltimore Gun Club is from Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon. Jim Anthony appeared in the pulp magazine Super-Detective. A young Dillon met Anthony at the New York branch of the Gun Club in Ferguson and Josh Reynolds’ The Vril Agenda. Jackson Bentley is from the movie Lawrence of Arabia. Henry Chinaski is author Charles Bukowski’s fictional alter ego. Jessica Fletcher is from the television series Murder, She Wrote. Jason King is from the TV series Department S and Jason King. Garth Marenghi is from the TV show Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace. Robin Masters is from the TV series Magnum, P.I. “Thom E. Gemcity” is the anagrammatic penname of Special Agent Timothy McGee on the TV series NCIS. Wold Newton Family member Kilgore Trout is a recurring character in Kurt Vonnegut’s novels. Nathan Zuckerman is a frequent protagonist of Philip Roth’s novels. 

This crossover writeup is one of hundreds included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Whistle Up the Devil

 

Are you a Golden Age of Mystery fan?

Then you'll love this novel, the first of two featuring amateur sleuth Algy Lawrence, which has references to Wilkie Collins' Sergeant Cuff, Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin, Clayton Rawson's Merlini, John Dickson Carr's Dr. Gideon Fell, Freeman Wills Crofts' Inspector French, and Rupert Penny's Chief Inspector Beale!

For more information, be sure to pick up a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Except for the Bones

 

Actor, director, and private investigator Alan Bernhardt meets Lt. Frank Hastings of the San Francisco Police Department. Lt. Hastings, who appears in his own series of novels by Wilcox, is in the CU through a team-up with Bill Pronzini’s Nameless Detective in Twospot, so Alan Bernhardt is in as well. 

This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Doc Ardan: The Troglodytes of Mount Everest/The Treasure of Black Lake

 

Are you a French pulp fiction fan?

Then you'll love this collection of two linked novels by Guy d'Armen featuring his character Francis "Doc" Ardan, which has shout-outs to a number of characters and places from French, British, and American popular fiction!

For more information, be sure to pick up a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover TV Episode: Watcher

 

In this episode of Star Trek: Picard set on April 12, 2024, Guinan closes her bar at 10 Forward Avenue and entrusts her pit bull Luna to her friend Dale. Dale is played by Brian Quinn, who previously played the role in the 12 Monkeys episode “Year of the Monkey” and the MacGyver episode “Mac + Desi + Riley + Aubrey.” The MacGyver reboot has crossed-over with the Hawaii Five-O reboot twice, which in turn twice crossed-over with the Magnum, P.I. reboot. All three series are incompatible with the original shows, which are all in the CU, so they must be set in an alternate universe. Hawaii Five-O also crossed-over with NCIS: Los Angeles twice. The various NCIS shows are in the CU, so the NCIS: Los Angeles characters must have counterparts in that AU. Obviously, Dale does as well. The TV version of 12 Monkeys ends with the time-traveling protagonists averting the disastrous future that they were trying to prevent throughout its run, so that presents no problem. The TV series is not in continuity with Terry Gilliam’s original film, which would be in its own universe. Swaford Single Malt Whiskey has appeared in both Star Trek: Picard and the MacGyver reboot.

This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Lair of the Bat

 

Are you a fan of the pulp hero the Black Bat?

Then you’ll love this comic, which has crossovers with other pulp heroes, a Golden Age comic book hero, and a New Pulp character!

For more information, make sure to pick up a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert’s Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: The Return of the Hound

 

In this story by Josh Reynolds, Charles St. Cyprian reads in a newspaper about the robbery of Thurlingham Hall last month, whose perpetrator St. Cyprian’s assistant Ebe Gallowglass describes as “that albino with the funny name.” When she suggests they apprehend him themselves, St. Cyprian replies that they'll leave that sort of thing to Blake and Lee and the rest of that lot. Sgt. Robert Ogden and his squad had been seconded to Carnacki during the War. The Si-Fan lurks in every opium den in Limehouse not owned by the Sisterhood of the Rats. St. Cyprian describes his old foe Dr. Gottlieb Hochmuller as “a vivisectionist and member in bad standing of the Kaiser’s pet sorcerous cabal, along with the likes of Erwin Torre or charlatans like Professor ten Brinken.” The albino with the funny name is Zenith the Albino, the archenemy of private detective Sexton Blake. In the story “The Strange Case of the Thurlingham Hall Robbery,” Zenith went up against Blake’s friend and fellow detective Nelson Lee. Thomas Carnacki is from William Hope Hodgson’s Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder. The Si-Fan is from Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu novels. Professor Jakob ten Brinken is from Hanns Heinz Ewers’ Alraune.

This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Happy Holidays! 

Crossover of the Week

December 24, 1783; December 24, 1928 

THE GIFT THAT KEPT ON TAKING 

In 1783, young Ebenezer Scrooge receives a monkey’s paw that will supposedly grant wishes as a Christmas gift from his father but abandons it after making two wishes. On Christmas Eve 1928, Fascinax investigates the deaths over the years of schoolchildren who have suffered the same fates as the subjects of Scrooge’s wishes more than a century ago. He believes the murderer to be a creature variously identified as the Krampus, Hans Trapp, Belsnickle, and Père Fouettard. The occult investigator believes the first victim this Christmas will be Pinkie Brown. The spirit of Scrooge tells Fascinax that toward the end of his life, an old friend and three spirits showed him the error of his ways, that a Mr. White and his wife have another monkey’s paw, and that this paw can undo the curse that has lasted for over a century. 

Short story by Matthew Dennion in Tales of the Shadowmen Volume 18: Eminences Grises, Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier, eds., Black Coat Press, 2021. Ebenezer Scrooge is from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. The Monkey’s Paw is from W. W. Jacobs’ story of the same name. Fascinax is the title character of a 1920s French pulp magazine by an anonymous author. The Krampus, Hans Trapp, Belsnickle, and Père Fouettard are all from European folklore. Pinkie Brown is from Graham Greene’s novel Brighton Rock, in which Pinkie takes over the gang of the late Kite, whose murder is described in Greene’s novel A Gun for Sale. 

This crossover writeup is one of hundreds included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Covers: The Billion Dollar Plot

 

Are you a fan of Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener's comic Atomic Robo?

Then you'll love this prequel story featuring dime novel inventors Frank Reade, Jr., Jack Wright, and Electric Bob!

For more information, be sure to pick up a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: The Problem of the Haunted Tepee

 

In this story by Edward D. Hoch, an aged Ben Snow meets Dr. Sam Hawthorne and tells him about an unexplained mystery from his past. Hoch’s character Ben Snow, an Old West gunslinger frequently mistaken for Billy the Kid, is in the CU through Rick Lai’s story “The Voice of Zarnak.” This crossover brings in another series character of Hoch’s, Dr. Sam Hawthorne, a physician and amateur sleuth in the New England town of Northmont. The Hawthorne stories “The Problem of the Haunted Bandstand” and “The Problem of the Voting Booth” identify Northmont’s neighboring town as Shinn Corners, the setting of The Glass Village, the first novel written by Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee under the Ellery Queen pseudonym that does not feature the fictional author and detective Ellery Queen. 

This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Covers: Billy Summers

 

Are you a Stephen King fan?

Then you'll love this novel, which has ties to several of his other works, as well as his daughter-in-law Kelly Braffet's novel Save Yourself!

For more information, be sure to purchase a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! All three books are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Covers: Pellucidar: Across Savage Seas

 

In 1930, Gretchen von Harben accompanies Jason Gridley and Captain Jason Connover on an expedition to Pellucidar aboard the airship Favonia. Gretchen’s brother Erich and Lord Greystoke are mentioned. An outcast group of Oparians once tried to appoint Gretchen their priestess of the Flaming God. The Favonia departed from Tyler Shipyards and Aeronautics in Santa Monica. Gretchen meets Omlot the Sagoth, who speaks a variation of Mangani, and Nadok the Voraki. Gretchen once contemplated killing a renegade Oparian named Gulm. In 1950, Gretchen relates this story to her and Nadok’s daughter Victory, who the Mahar Tu-al-sa showed an ancient tablet when she was younger. Gretchen von Harben and Gulm are from Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins with Jad-Bal-Ja, the Golden Lion. Jason Gridley is a recurring character across Burroughs’ various series. The Favonia’s namesake and Erich von Harben are from Tarzan and the Lost Empire. Opar and the mangani are from the Tarzan books. Tyler Shipyards and Aeronautics is a reference to the company owned by Bowen Tyler’s family in Burroughs’ Caspak trilogy. Victory Harben is an original character appearing in the Swords of Eternity super-arc running through several of the new Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe novels. Victory met Tu-al-sa, who first appeared in Burroughs’ novel Pellucidar, in Win Scott Eckert’s novel Tarzan: Battle for Pellucidar. 

This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Full Moonster

 

Are you a Ghostbusters fan?

Then you'll love this novel in Nick Pollotta's Bureau 13 series, which has a reference to that film, as well as Bram Stoker's Dracula!

For more information, be sure to purchase a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! Like its predecessors, this volume is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Covers: The Glencannon-Tugboat Annie Affair

 

In this story by Norman Reilly Raine and Guy Gilpatric, Tugboat Annie Brennan crosses paths with Colin Glencannon, a Scottish engineer aboard the tramp steamer Inchcliffe Castle. Raine’s character Tugboat Annie is in the CU, so this crossover brings in Gilpatric’s character Colin Glencannon. 

This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover of the Week

June 1981

KUMIHO 

Carl Kolchak encounters the fox-maiden from Korean mythology, which can assume the form of a beautiful woman. Tony Vincenzo sends Kolchak to Chicago to cover the de Grandin Metaphysical Symposium. Tony tells Carl there are going to be some important metaphysical speakers there, including John Thunstone, William Sebastian, and Harry Snowden. The moderator is a tall, blonde man named Rhodes. The Kumiho’s former lover shows Kolchak a book called The Darkness Out of the East. Captain Joseph “Mad Dog” Siska is learning tai chi from Master Li Sung. An old contact of Kolchak’s lends him a dog named Casca. 

Short story by Matthew Baugh in Kolchak the Night Stalker: Passages of the Macabre, Dave Ulanski and Tracey Hill, eds., Moonstone Books, 2016. The de Grandin Metaphysical Symposium is named after Seabury Quinn’s occult investigator Jules de Grandin. John Thunstone is one of Manly Wade Wellman’s occult detectives. Thunstone’s The Darkness Out of the East appears in the Jules de Grandin story “The Green God’s Ring.” William Sebastian is from the TV movie Spectre. Harry Snowden is from the TV movies Fear No Evil and Ritual of Evil. Dr. Michael Rhodes is from the TV series The Sixth Sense. Li Sung is a blind martial arts master played by Mako in The Incredible Hulk episodes “Another Path” and “The Disciple.” Mako also played a Triad leader named Li Sung in the Kung Fu: The Legend Continues episodes “Tournament” and “Veil of Tears.” This Li Sung could see and was a descendant of the emperor’s nephew killed by the first Kwai Chang Caine in the original Kung Fu. The two Li Sungs are probably related. Casca is named after the immortal mercenary from Barry Sadler’s novels. This story takes place during Kolchak’s tenure with the Hollywood Dispatch, in a year where June 4 falls on a Thursday. 1981 is the first year after the original run of Kolchak: The Night Stalker that fits that parameter. 

This crossover writeup is one of hundreds included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! Like its predecessors, this volume is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: The Ethiopian

 

Are you a fan of Italian comic artist Hugo Pratt?

Then you'll love this story in his series Corto Maltese, which has appearances by characters from his comics Ann of the Jungle and The Scorpions of the Desert!

For more information, be sure to pick up a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: For the Sake of the Game

 

This anthology of Sherlock Holmes stories includes three tales with crossovers. 

In F. Paul Wilson's "The Adventure of the Abu Qir Sapphire," an aging Holmes must help an archaeologist clear his name when he is framed for stealing the Abu Qir sapphire by the mysterious Madame de Medici, whom Holmes previously encountered in 1879. They trace her to the Limehouse residence of Zani Chada. In both a flashback to 1879 and the present day, Madame de Medici writes Holmes a four-line letter after their encounters. The first lines of each letter spell out "SREM," and Holmes believes they contain a clue to her identity. Madame de Medici is from Sax Rohmer’s stories “The Key of the Temple of Heaven,” “The Black Mandarin,” and “The Treasure of Taia.” Zani Chada was arrested by Chief Inspector Red Kerry in Rohmer's “Kerry’s Kid,” set in 1921. In “The Key of the Temple of Heaven,” set in 1922, Madame de Medici was temporarily living in Chada’s former house. The house later passed to Burma Chang, who was murdered in Yellow Shadows. The Compendium of Srem is an occult tome from Wilson’s Repairman Jack series. Madame de Medici went up against Jack and Heather Graham’s P.I. Michael Quinn in Wilson and Graham’s story “Infernal Night.”

The other two crossover stories are both AUs. In Duane Swierczynski's "Tough Guy Ballet,"set in December 1987, an L.A.P.D. detective apprehends a serial killer whose M.O. differs every time with the help of a teenage girl. As it turns out, both the murderer and the girl are possessed by the souls of others. In the girl’s case, she bears the soul of not only the cop’s partner, who was murdered by their quarry, but several other cops and detectives, including “this big fat guy who’s obsessed with orchids, and some alcoholic lady named Nora, and this British guy who plays the violin and seems to know everything about everyone..." The British guy is Holmes. The orchid enthusiast is Nero Wolfe, while Nora is Nora Charles from Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man. Holmes’ last recorded appearance in the CU is the 1986 comic book story “The Doomsday Book,” in which he meets Batman and Robin, the Elongated Man, and Slam Bradley. Since it seems probable a future crossover pastiche will have Holmes alive even later, I am counting this as an AU. 

In Zoe Sharp's "Hounded," Sharp’s series character, ex-soldier turned bodyguard Charlotte “Charlie” Fox, becomes involved in Sherlock Holmes’ investigation of the Hound of the Baskervilles when Beryl Stapleton’s mother hires her to rescue her daughter from her husband Jack. This story updates Doyle’s tale to the twenty-first century, with Watson blogging about Holmes’ cases and serving in Iraq as well as Afghanistan.

These crossovers are only three of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Movie Poster: Repo Man

 

Are you a fan of William S. Burroughs' writing?

Then you'll love this film, which has shout-outs to two characters from Naked Lunch!    

For more information, be sure to pick up a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover TV Episode: Harvest

 

In this episode of Endeavour set in September 1967, Dr. Tristan Berger has a surgery in King's Abbot, the setting of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! Like the first two volumes, this one is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Very Important Corpses

 

Are you a fan of '60s Mexican genre cinema?

Then you'll love this book, which among other crossovers has a reference to the horror film The Brainiac!

For more information, be sure to pick up a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Bucking the Tiger

 

Quotes about Doc Holliday and his acquaintances are provided by Marshal Dan Troop, Flint McCullough, Jace Pearson, John Yuma, Wm. Munny, Ethan Edwards, Pike Bishop, and Josh Randall. Doc describes Billy the Kid as dressed like Paladin. Sallie Chisum has basset hounds named Augustus and Woodrow. Marshal Dan Troop is from the TV series Lawman. Flint McCullough is from the television series Wagon Train. Jace Pearson is from the radio and TV show Tales of the Texas Rangers. John (or Johnny) Yuma is from the TV series The Rebel. William Munny is from the movie Unforgiven. Ethan Edwards is from the film The Searchers. Pike Bishop is from the film The Wild Bunch. Josh Randall is from the TV series Wanted: Dead or Alive. Paladin is from the radio and TV series Have Gun – Will Travel. The basset hounds Augustus and Woodrow are named after Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call from Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove novels.

This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover of the Week

Summer 1967

YORKSHIRE STONES AND AMERICAN BARONS 

A Colonel and Sergeant summon Johnny Rich and May. The Colonel says the third Baron Tennington is in danger, but Johnny corrects him, saying that he has been dead for centuries, that one of his ancestors was familiar with the 11th Baron in 1795, and that the Colonel is talking about Stephen Tennington, the third Baron Darrowby. Johnny’s father mentored him in occult matters. May, who is of Manchu and English descent and has a contentious relationship with her grandfather and mother, dons a shooter’s vest with over a dozen small pockets, a smaller version of one worn by one of Johnny’s relatives, an adventurer of some note in the past. Their enemy, Jill Pole, is a Pict who worships the Moon-Woman. Johnny carries a sword cane whose silver blade, supposedly one of several forged by St. Dunstan, bears the inscription, “Sic pereant omnes inimici tui,” or “Thus perish all your enemies.” Johnny and May encounter another of the Moon-Woman's subjects, Thun Bronze Spear, son of Ka-Nu, son of Ka-Nu, who mentions King Bran and Gonar the Ancient. Johnny knows a French Japanese criminal who frequently uses grappling hooks in his thefts. 

Short story by Frank Schildiner in Johnny Rich, Pro Se Productions, 2018. The Colonel and Sergeant are Colonel Ross and Harry Palmer from Len Deighton’s spy novels. George Edward Rutherford, the 11th Baron Tennington, is from Philip José Farmer’s Tarzan Alive. The 11th Baron, who was present at the Wold Newton meteor strike in 1795, has several famous descendants, including Lord Greystoke and Professor Challenger. Darrowby, Yorkshire is from James Herriot’s It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet. Johnny Rich’s father is Dennis Wheatley’s occult adventurer the Duke de Richleau. May’s grandfather is Fu Manchu, and her mother is the Devil Doctor’s daughter Fah Lo Suee. Johnny’s relative is a certain golden-eyed pulp superman. The Moon-Woman is from Robert E. Howard’s Bran Mak Morn story “Worms of the Earth.” Ka-Nu is from Howard’s Kull stories. Gonar is from the Bran Mak Morn stories. Two of St. Dunstan’s other silver blades are carried by Manly Wade Wellman’s occult detectives Judge Pursuivant and John Thunstone. The French Japanese criminal is Monkey Punch’s manga character Lupin III, the grandson of Maurice Leblanc’s gentleman thief Arsène Lupin. 

This crossover writeup is one of hundreds included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Brighter Than the Sun

 

Are you a Sherlock Holmes fan?

Then you'll love Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier's epilogue to their adaptation of this novel, which has a passing Holmes reference!

For more information, be sure to pick up a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: The Club Dumas

 

Professional book hunter Lucas Corso acquired a very rare 1870 edition of Astarloa’s A Treatise on Fencing for bookseller Varo Borja a couple months ago. This 1993 novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte is in the CU through Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.’s “In the Devil’s Garden,” Frank Schildiner’s The Triumph of Frankenstein, and Pete Rawlik’s “By the Light of the Moon.” Don Jaime Astarloa is the protagonist of Pérez-Reverte’s The Fencing Master.

This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: A Double Affair

 

Are you a fan of George du Maurier's fiction?

Then you'll love this novel by Angela Thirkell, taking place in Anthony Trollope's fictional English county of Barsetshire, which has a reference to du Maurier's novel Peter Ibbetson!

For more information, be sure to pick up a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Covers: Final Phase

 

The Black Bat battles the Black Sun Cult alongside the Phantom Detective, I. V. Frost, the Domino Lady, Nighthawk, Ki-Gor and Helene, Captain Hazzard’s aides, and Jim Anthony. The Phantom Detective listens to a radio broadcast by Diane Elliott. Nighthawk is from Fortier’s novel Nighthawk: Burning Skies. This crossover brings him into the CU. Diane Elliott is Operator No. 5’s girlfriend. In an amusing moment that is more of an in-joke than a true crossover, the Domino Lady tells the Phantom Detective that she’s always thought the use of a spotlight signal to summon him was a great idea, and that she’s surprised some other masked mystery man hasn’t stolen it from him, a foreshadowing of Commissioner Gordon’s use of the Batsignal to summon Batman.

This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover TV Episode: The Librarians and the Crown of King Arthur

 

Are you a fan of the TV series Leverage?

Then you'll love the pilot for The Librarians, which has an appearance by a distinctive object from that show! 

For more information, be sure to check out my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Movie Poster: Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood

 

Rick Dalton smokes Capitol W Lights, while Cliff Booth drinks Old Chattanooga Tennessee Lager, both of which were first seen in Tarantino’s film Death Proof. Margot Robbie reprises her role as Laura Cameron from the TV series Pan Am, making and serving Rick a drink on his flight back from Italy, although her face is not seen, because Robbie also plays Sharon Tate in the film. An ad for Tarantino’s ubiquitous fast food restaurant Big Kahuna Burger is on the side of a bus. The closing credits are shown over Rick filming a commercial for Red Apple Cigarettes, another recurring Tarantino brand. The ending of this film veers into alternate history, making it an alternate universe to the CU.

This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover of the Week

Summer 1903

A PIRATE’S LIFE 

Dr. Eric Palmer is brought before Captain Nemo and Robur, who need his help to investigate a murder at the Pirate’s Conference they are hosting, which is held every fifty years, and whose attendees include sea and air pirates. James Gunn and Archibald Haddock escort Palmer to the scene of the crime. The dead man is the Dread Pirate Roberts, who is supposedly over three-hundred-years-old, but part of a succession of men who have used that identity. Others attending the conference include the German Captain Mors and members of the Singh Brotherhood. Palmer asks Gunn about pirate dynasties, and the latter names the Turners and Sala’s band of women. Gunn introduces Palmer to the Nautilus’ first mate, Mister Ishmael. Captain James Hook asks Palmer about his progress on the case. The alleged Dread Pirate Roberts was really Manfred von Warteck, whose family aspires to rival the great criminal brotherhoods of Europe, such as the Black Coats. 

Short story by Travis Hiltz in Tales of the Shadowmen Volume 16: Voir Dire, Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier, eds., Black Coat Press, 2020; reprinted in French in Les Compagnons de l’Ombre (Tome 27), Jean-Marc Lofficier, ed., Rivière Blanche, 2020. Dr. Eric Palmer is from Paul Féval, fils’ novel Felifax, the Tiger-Man. Captain Nemo and his submarine, the Nautilus, are from Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues under the Sea and The Mysterious Island. Robur is from Verne’s Robur the Conqueror and Master of the World. James Gunn is a descendant of Ben Gunn from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Archibald Haddock is from Hergé’s comic The Adventures of Tintin. The Dread Pirate Roberts is from William Goldman’s The Princess Bride. Captain Mors is a German pulp hero. The Singh Brotherhood and Sala’s group, the Sky Band, are from Lee Falk’s comic strip The Phantom. The Turners are from the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. Ishmael is from Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s comic book The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen portrayed Ishmael as the Nautilus’ first mate. Captain James Hook is from J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan. Manfred von Warteck is related to Baron Glô von Warteck, the villain of Jean de La Hire’s The Nyctalope vs. Lucifer. The Black Coats are from a series of novels by Paul Féval. 

This crossover writeup is one of hundreds included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Moon Over Bourbon Street

 

Are you an urban fantasy fan?

Then you'll love this entry in John G. Hartness' Bubba the Monster Hunter series, which has a shout out to James R. Tuck's character Deacon Chalk!

For more information, be sure to purchase a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: The Red Widow Murders

 

Sir Henry “H. M.” Merrivale meets Dr. Michael Tairlaine. Dr. Tairlaine first appeared in Carr’s non-series novel The Bowstring Murders.

This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2! 

Crossover Cover: Phileas Fogg and the Heart of Osra

 

Are you a Jules Verne fan?

Then you'll love this novella, Joshua M. Reynolds' second follow-up to Philip Jose Farmer's The Other Log of Phileas Fogg, in which Fogg has an adventure in the kingdom of Ruritania from Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda, Rupert of Hentzau, and The Heart of Princess Osra!

For more information, including coverage of the other crossovers in the book, be sure to purchase a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Covers: Le Pilote Sans Visage/Jari Dans la Tourmente

Race car driver Michel Vaillant meets Jari Lorrain at a tennis tournament where Jari’s guardian, pro Jimmy Torrent, is competing. This meeting is shown from Jari’s point of view in Raymond Reding’s “Jari dans la tourmente” in Le Journal de Tintin in 1958, and from Michel Vaillant’s point of view in “Le Pilote sans visage” by Jean Graton in the same magazine in 1959. The latter was reprinted as a standalone album in 1960. Graton’s comic Michel Vaillant is in the CU through Derrick Ferguson’s “Dillon and the Judas Chalice,” so Reding’s Jari is also in. 

This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Quello Che Non T'Aspetti

 

Are you an Italian comic fan?

Then you'll love this story, which teams the antiheroes Kriminal and Satanik, both created by Max Bunker and Magnus!

For more information, be sure to purchase a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Movie Poster: The Hudsucker Proxy

Karl Mundt narrates a newsreel about Hudsucker Industries. Karl “Madman” Mundt is from the Coen Brothers’ film Barton Fink, which is in the CU through a connection to The Big Lebowski.

This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2! 

Crossover of the Week

Summer 1888

THE CASE OF MRS. NORTON 

The former Irene Adler hires Erik’s Opera Ghost Agency (whose current operatives are Ayda Heidari, Ysabel de Ferre, and Hagar Stanley) to determine whether her husband Godfrey Norton is the good man he appears. Appearing or mentioned are the Persian; the Countess de Cagliostro; Liddle, Neal, & Liddle; the King of Bohemia; A. J. Raffles; Professor Moriarty; Sherlock Holmes; Trilby; Coppélius; Spallanzani; Olympia; Irma Vep; Les Vampires; La Marmoset; and Mr. Calhoun. 

Story by Kim Newman in Angels of Music, Titan Books, 2016. Erik and the Persian are from Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera. Irene Adler, her husband Godfrey Norton, and the King of Bohemia are from Doyle and Watson’s Sherlock Holmes tale “A Scandal in Bohemia.” Ayda Heidari is the future wife of Bob Ferguson from “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire.” Professor Moriarty is Holmes’ greatest foe. Ysabel de Ferre is a foe of detective Sexton Blake. Hagar Stanley is from Fergus Hume’s Hagar of the Pawn-Shop. Josephine Balsamo, the Countess of Cagliostro, is the archenemy of Maurice Leblanc’s gentleman burglar Arsène Lupin. Liddle, Neal, & Liddle is from Arthur Morrison’s Martin Hewitt story “The Case of Laker, Absconded.” A. J. Raffles is E. W. Hornung’s amateur cracksman. Trilby O’Ferrall is from George du Maurier’s Trilby. Coppélius, Spallanzani, and Olympia are from Jacques Offenbach’s opera Tales of Hoffmann. Irma Vep and Les Vampires are from Louis Feuillade’s silent film serial named for the latter. La Marmoset and Mr. Calhoun are from Albert W. Aiken’s “La Marmoset, the Detective Queen; or, The Lost Heir of Morel.” 

This crossover writeup is one of hundreds included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover TV Episode: Zenana

 

Are you a fan of the classic Universal monster movies?

Then you'll love this episode of Endeavour, which has a nod to The Wolf Man, as well as Charles Dickens' Bleak House!

For more information, be sure to pick up a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

My first short story!

My contributor copy of the anthology containing my first published fiction has arrived, and I could not be more delighted! Six more days until it hits the streets! And yes, of course I wrote up my own story for Crossovers Expanded Volume 3. :)