Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Crossover Cover: Cold Blood


 Are you a fan of the 1970s TV series Kolchak: The Night Stalker?

Then you'll love this comic, which has a shout-out to Carl Kolchak himself!

For more details, see my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3! As with the first two volumes, this book will be an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2 and will be published by Meteor House!

Monday, January 30, 2023

Crossover Movie: Lupin the 3rd vs. Cat's Eye


Lupin the 3rd vies with a trio of thieves known as Cat’s Eye (sisters Hitomi, Rui, and Ai Kisugi) and a group of arms dealers called Faden for a triptych painted by the siblings’ father that bears the key to a treasure once sought by the Nazis. Ryo Saeba stands nearby as Rui picks up Hitomi and Ai in her car. This film brings Tsukasa Hojo’s manga Cat’s Eye into the CU. Ryo Saeba is one of the protagonists of another series by Tsukasa, City Hunter, which has had several crossovers with Cat’s Eye

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

Sunday, January 29, 2023

Crossover of the Week

Autumn 1887 LES VAMPIRES DE PARIS Erik’s Angels of Music (La Marmoset, Sophy Kratides and Unorna) investigate a murder that appears to be the work of a vampire. Appearing or mentioned are: Montsou; Sybil Vane; Mr. Calhoun; Harold Latimer; Wilson Kemp; Sherlock Holmes; Paul Kratides; Scapinelli; Keyork Arabian; the power to cloud men’s minds in the mountain lamaseries of Tibet; strange orchids from the mangrove swamps of the Andaman Islands; the Scroll of Thoth; the Shout; Irene Adler; Trilby O’Ferrall; Christine Daaé; Olympia; Svengali; the Persian; Les Vampires; the Grand Vampire; Vénénos; the Hôtel du Libre Echange; Monsieur Morillon; Frederick Hohner; Ayda Heidari; Count Camille de Rosillon; Pontevedro; Dr. Geneviève Dieudonné; Inspector Raoul d’Aubert; the Black Coats; Sesostris, the Sorceress of Ecbatana; the lost treasure of Monte Cristo; Anatole Garron; Giovanni Jones; Monsieur Rémy; Dorabella; Clarimonde; Geraldine; the Count; Des Esseintes; the Marquis de Coulteray; Joséphine Balsamo; Gravelle; Dr. Michel Falke; Mircalla Karnstein; Abraham Van Helsing; the Princess Addhema; Firmin Richard; Jean Macquart; Simon Buquet; Bernard Hichcock; Patou; Inspecteur Legris; Monsieur Moncharmin; Jacques Rival; Henri Paillardin; Lord Ruthven; Sir Francis Varney; Ezzelin von Klatka; Inspecteur Bec; Chief Magistrate Barrière; and John Seward. Story by Kim Newman in Angels of Music, Titan Books, 2016. Erik, Christine Daaé, the Persian, Monsieur Rémy, Firmin Richard, and Armand Moncharmin are from Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera. La Marmoset and Mr. Calhoun are from Albert W. Aiken’s story “La Marmoset, the Detective Queen; or, the Lost Heir of Morel.” Sophy Kratides and her brother Paul, Harold Latimer, and Wilson Kemp are from Doyle and Watson’s Sherlock Holmes tale “The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter.” Irene Adler is from the Holmes story “A Scandal in Bohemia.” Ayda Heidari will later marry Bob Ferguson, as seen in “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire.” Unorna and Keyork Arabian are from F. Marion Crawford’s The Witch of Prague. Montsou is from Émile Zola’s novel Germinal. Jean Macquart is from Zola’s La Terre. Sybil Vane is from Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. Scapinelli is from the movie The Student of Prague. The power to cloud men’s minds was learned in Tibet by the shadowy vigilante. Strange orchids from the mangrove swamps of the Andaman Islands are from H. G. Wells’ “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid.” The Scroll of Thoth is from the 1932 film The Mummy. The Shout is from the British horror film of the same name. Trilby O’Ferrall and Svengali are from George du Maurier’s Trilby. Olympia is from Jacques Offenbach’s opera Tales of Hoffmann. Les Vampires, the Grand Vampire, and Vénénos are from the film serial Les Vampires. The Hôtel du Libre Echange is from Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallières’ play of the same name, as are Bastien Morillon and Henri Paillardin. Frederick Hohner is from the movie The Climax. Count Camille de Rosillon and Pontevedro are from Franz Lehár’s operetta The Merry Widow. Geneviève Dieudonné is from Newman’s Diogenes Club series and has a counterpart in the Anno Dracula Universe. Inspector Raoul d'Aubert and Anatole Garron are from the 1943 film version of The Phantom of the Opera. Simon Buquet is from the 1925 silent version of the novel. The Black Coats are from Paul Féval’s novels. The Princess Addhema is from Féval’s The Vampire Countess. Sesostris, the Sorceress of Ecbatana is from Aldous Huxley’s Crome Yellow. The lost treasure of Monte Cristo is from Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo. Giovanni Jones is from the Bugs Bunny cartoon “Long-Haired Hair”; this must be his CU counterpart. Dorabella is the title character of an episode of the 1970s British television series Supernatural. Clarimonde is from Théophile Gautier’s “La Morte Amoureuse.” Geraldine is from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “Christabel.” Here, the three female vampires are the Brides of Count Dracula. This story takes place during the events of Stoker’s novel. Abraham Van Helsing and John Seward are from Dracula. Professor Madame Saartje Van Helsing must be Abraham’s second wife; his first, Elizabeth, died in circumstances recounted in the Marvel Comics black-and-white magazine Dracula Lives! Jean des Esseintes is from J.-K. Huysmans’ A Rebours. The Marquis de Coulteray is from Gaston Leroux’s The Bloody Puppet. Joséphine Balsamo is from Maurice Leblanc’s Arsène Lupin novels. Gravelle is from the movie Charlie Chan at the Opera. Dr. Falke is from Johann Strauss II’s operetta Die Fledermaus. The first name Michel is derived from the 1946 film version of the operetta. Mircalla Karnstein is from J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla.” Bernard Hichcock is from the movie The Horrible Dr. Hichcock. Patou, a gendarme, is an ancestor of gendarme Nestor Patou from Marguerite Monnot and Alexandre Breffort’s musical Irma la Douce. Inspecteur Legris is from the movie The Man Who Could Cheat Death. Jacques Rival is from Guy de Maupassant’s Bel-Ami. Lord Ruthven is from John Polidori’s “The Vampyre.” Sir Francis Varney is from James Malcolm Rymer’s Varney the Vampire. Ezzelin von Klatka is from Anonymous’ story “The Mysterious Stranger.” Inspecteur Bec is from the 1986 TV movie adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” Paul Barrière is from Cole Porter’s musical Can-Can.

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

Saturday, January 28, 2023

Crossover Cover: The Black Bat Returns

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

Then you'll love this anthology of new stories featuring the character published by Moonstone Books, which includes tales in which the Bat encounters the Domino Lady, the Green Lama, Doctor Satan, the Golden Amazon, and the Purple Scar!

For more details, see my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House! Much like the first two volumes published in 2016, this book is an AUTHORIZED companion to Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2 by my dear friend Win Scott Eckert!
 

Friday, January 27, 2023

Crossover Cover: August Folly

 

Richard Tebben is spending his summer vacation from Oxford at his family home in Barsetshire. Mr. Fanshawe is the Dean of St. Paul’s College, Oxford: “As everyone knows, Paul’s is famous for the great row or disturbance which took place shortly before the Crimean War, in consequence of which row Charles Ravenshoe, a gentleman of good family in the West, was rusticated for a year.” Sparrow, the butler of the Palmer family, smokes Junior Whifflets. Angela Thirkell wrote many novels set in the fictional English county seen in Anthony Trollope’s The Chronicles of Barsetshire novels, which are in the CU through The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, among other works. Many of Thirkell’s novels feature descendants of Trollope’s characters. St. Paul’s College and Charles Ravenshoe are from Henry Kingsley’s novel Ravenshoe. St. Paul’s is mentioned in several of Thirkell’s novels. Whifflets cigarettes are from Dorothy L. Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey novel Murder Must Advertise.

This crossover, and hundreds more (including several other Barsetshire novels by Thirkell), will be covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3! As with the first two volumes, this tome is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's invaluable resources Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!


Thursday, January 26, 2023

Crossover Movie Poster: Santo and Blue Demon vs. the Monsters

 

Are you a fan of Mexican lucha libre movies?

Then you'll love this film, which pits El Santo and Blue Demon against a host of creatures, including a Frankenstein monster!

For more details, see my upcoming book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, coming from Meteor House. As with the first two volumes, this book is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes One and Two!

Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Crossover Cover: Captain Alatriste



In March 1623, Spanish swordsman for hire Captain Diego Alatriste is paid to kill two men, but ultimately refuses to do so. The men turn out to be the visiting Prince of Wales and Marquis of Buckingham. The narrator, Íñigo Balboa, Alatriste’s squire, telling the reader of Buckingham’s outrageous behavior, says he “would get his comeuppance in his own country, when some years later a Puritan lieutenant named Felton – upholding, they say, the honor of a certain Milady de Winter – gave him what he deserved; more stabs in the gut than a missal has prayers.” The reference to Milady de Winter establishes that the Alatriste books take place in the same universe as Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers.

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

Crossover TV Episode: The Librarians and the Tears of a Clown

 

Are you a Star Trek fan?

Then you'll love this episode of The Librarians that has a nod to the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Catspaw!"    

For more details, see my upcoming book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3! All three volumes are published by Meteor House and are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's books Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Monday, January 23, 2023

Crossover Cover: A Girl Died Laughing


Archaeologist Sheridan Dinard says to Assistant District Attorney Addison Alby, “I had the pleasure of meeting you once, Alby...at Mr. Philo Vance’s, with Mr. Markham.” The reference to S. S. Van Dine’s sleuth Philo Vance and his friend District Attorney John F.-X. Markham brings this book into the CU.

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

Sunday, January 22, 2023

Crossover of the Week

July 1922

THE BIZARRE ADVENTURE OF THE OCTAGON HOUSE 

Sherlock Holmes meets Denis Nayland Smith at Scotland Yard. Smith has carefully studied Limehouse, particularly the Devil Doctor who permeates that region. Besides Solar Pons and Dr. Lyndon Parker, Holmes enlists the aid of the Belgian consultant at 14 Farraway Street, whose friend Captain Hastings married and moved to Argentina the previous autumn, and who is himself investigating the Doctor, whom his biographer would later disguise under the name Li Chang Yen. Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie insist on being involved. At Scotland Yard, Dr. Watson nods at Inspectors Charles Parker (a relation of Dr. Parker), Stanislaus Oates, and Jimmy Japp, who says M. Poirot has additional information about the Aberystwyth case. Holmes and Watson seek information on soils from Dr. John Thorndyke and his assistant Dr. Christopher Jervis. Another of Thorndyke’s helpers is researcher Nathaniel Polton. As they leave Thorndyke’s home, Holmes and Watson run into Superintendent Miller. Watson says that a few weeks later, he, Holmes, Pons, Parker, Thorndyke, Jervis, Nayland Smith, and Petrie visited the now-empty Colsworth estate. Lord Peter was invited to attend, but he declined, and in his place came an American, either twenty-two or twenty-three years of age, named Jones who recently completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago and was soon planning to attend a graduate program in linguistics at the Sorbonne. 

Story by Dr. Watson, edited by David Marcum in The Meeting of the Minds: Cases of Sherlock Holmes & Solar Pons I, David Marcum, ed., Belanger Books, 2021. Sir Denis Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie are Dr. Fu Manchu’s archenemies in Sax Rohmer’s novels. The Devil Doctor made several unnamed appearances in August Derleth’s Solar Pons stories. The Belgian consultant is Hercule Poirot. Li Chang Yen battled Poirot in Agatha Christie’s The Big Four. Rick Lai identified Li Chang Yen with Fu Manchu in his essay “Partners in Crime: Fu Manchu and Carl Peterson.” Captain Arthur Hastings and Inspector James Japp are from the Poirot books. The Aberystwyth case is mentioned in Christie’s Murder on the Links. Chief Inspector Charles Parker is the friend and brother-in-law of Dorothy L. Sayers’ detective Lord Peter Wimsey. Inspector Stanislaus Oates is from Margery Allingham’s Albert Campion books. Drs. Thorndyke and Jervis, Nathaniel Polton, and Superintendent Miller are from R. Austin Freeman’s detective novels. Jones is Indiana Jones. Indy would in fact be twenty-three in July 1922.

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

Saturday, January 21, 2023

Crossover Covers: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest






Are you a fan of Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's comic book The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Then you may enjoy this final chapter of the series, picking up directly after the events of Volume 3: Century!

For a fuller write-up of this comic, check out the appendix on alternate universes in my forthcoming book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3! As with the first two volumes, this book is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's invaluable tomes Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2 and will be published by the awesome folks at Meteor House!

Friday, January 20, 2023

Crossover Cover: Burglars Can't Be Choosers

 

Burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr breaks into an apartment with a Rabson lock. Said lock is from Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe novels and would be mentioned in several subsequent Bernie Rhodenbarr books.

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

Thursday, January 19, 2023

Crossover Cover: Reanimatrix

 

Are you a fan of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos?

Then you'll love this novel, which not only references people, places, and things from Mythos works from Lovecraft's all the way to modern authors', but also a large number of references to non-Mythos works, from The Big Sleep to Dirty Dancing, and from Psycho to The Dukes of Hazzard!

All the details can be found in my forthcoming book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, coming from Meteor House! As with the first two volumes, this book is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Crossover Covers: The Crow/Hack/Slash: She Wears Shadows

 




When Vlad is wounded, Cassie Hack reluctantly teams up with Marcus Grieves, a revenant empowered for vengeance by a mystical crow, to take down another such individual who refused to return to the afterlife after getting revenge on her killer. James O’Barr’s comic book The Crow is already in the CU through crossovers with Razor and Sonja Blue, and this story further cements its inclusion. Cassie says she has been hunting slashers for about six years, which would place this exploit in 2009. 

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

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Crossover Cover: Jeeves and the Leap of Faith

 

Are you a fan of P. G. Wodehouse's comic novels featuring Bertie Wooster and his valet Reginald Jeeves?

Then you'll love this new authorized novel featuring the duo that has references to two of Evelyn Waugh's novels, as well as P. L. Travers' Mary Poppins books!

All the details can be found in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published in the not-too-distant future 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!

Monday, January 16, 2023

Crossover Cover: The Gold Ogre

Doc Savage is recruited by four teenage boys – Don Worth, B. Elmer Dexter, Morris “Mental” Byron, and Leander “Funny” Tucker – to discover the truth behind little gold men who are abducting people, including Don’s father. Before contacting Doc, the youngsters discuss “mysteries, and people who were famous at solving them. Don Worth took little interest in the conversation while it referred to the G-men, Scotland Yard, Sherlock Holmes, and others.” Don then brings up Doc. Doc Savage, the FBI, and Scotland Yard are real within the context of this novel, suggesting Sherlock Holmes is as well. 

This is one of the hundreds of crossovers that will be covered in my book Crossovers Expanded Volume 3: A Secret Chronology of the World. All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companion books to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Sunday, January 15, 2023

Crossover of the Week

This post is dedicated to the late great Derrick Ferguson. Derrick was a great guy, a great author, and a great film critic. He always had praise for my work, particularly my ability to spot references in his own stories. His passing in 2021 was a great loss, and I miss him so much.

Autumn 2002

DILLON AND THE LEGEND OF THE GOLDEN BELL 

Dillon embarks on a mission to acquire the legendary Golden Bell of Malacar to end the country of Xonira’s civil war. Appearing or mentioned are: Hazzard Laboratories; the Banzai Institute; the Henderson Institute of Alternative Technologies; the Lupin Casino; the Khusran army; a black double-breasted Marley Brooks suit; Comanapracil; Professor Simon Kane, aka the Scarf; Intelligence One; Sovereign City; Lowell O’Neal, the author who writes up Regency’s adventures in a series of popular novels; Sylvester Henderson and his brother Mongrel Henderson; the Gantlet Brothers; Max Damage, Seth Armstrong, and Damage, Inc.; Damon St. Cloud and his reporter girlfriend Sasha Benbow in Denbrook; Tenku Beer; Sutter Cane; Liz Sheridan; Johnny Kelly; Omega Elite; Triplets of Belleville; a huge Bowie knife with a well-worn bone handle that had once been owned by the notorious Cole Younger; the Hand of Midas; Steve Austin; and the Behinder. 

Novel by Derrick Ferguson, 2010; revised Deluxe Edition published by PulpWork Press in 2015. Hazzard Laboratories is run by Paul Chadwick’s pulp hero Captain Hazzard, whose adventures have been continued by Ron Fortier. The Banzai Institute is from the movie The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. The Henderson Institute of Alternative Technologies is run by Dr. Sylvester Henderson, whose brother, Charalambides “Mongrel” Henderson, is featured in Ferguson’s serialized novel “A Man Called Mongrel,” appearing in the Mystery Men (& Women) anthology series. The Lupin Casino is presumably named for Maurice Leblanc’s gentleman burglar Arsène Lupin or one of his relatives, such as his grandson Lupin III. Ferguson’s 1930s adventurer Fortune McCall is a member of the royal family of the African nation of Khusra. The Marley Brooks fashion company must have been founded by one of the bronze man’s aides, who was known for his sartorial splendor. A man wearing a Marley Brooks suit also appears in Howard Hopkins’ Green Ghost story “Ghost of a Chance.” Comanapracil is from “Believe in the Stars,” an episode of the sitcom 30 Rock. The Scarf is mentioned in the first Fortune McCall story, “The Scarlet Courtesan of Sovereign City.” Intelligence One is from Ferguson’s stories “The Knobloch Collection Assignment” and “The Magic of Madness,” the latter of which also features Fortune McCall. Sovereign City is the site of a novel imprint published by Pro Se Press; McCall is one of Sovereign’s heroes. Regency (who is in fact Lowell O’Neal) is a former member of Omega Elite, which is mentioned in several of Ferguson’s works. He appears in Ferguson’s story “In Need of a Friend.” The Gantlet Brothers, a family of rock stars who moonlight as mercenaries, appear in a series of books by Joel Jenkins. Max Damage, Seth Armstrong, and Damage, Inc. are from Jenkins’ Damage Inc. series. Damon St. Cloud and Sasha Benbow are from Jenkins’ Denbrook Supernatural series. The city of Denbrook was the setting of several serialized novels by different authors (including Ferguson and Jenkins) on the Frontier Publishing website and was created by Mike McGee. Tenku Beer is from the movie Kill Bill: Vol. 1. Sutter Cane is from the movie In the Mouth of Madness. Liz (or Lil) Sheridan and Johnny Kelly are from the movie Johnny Dangerously. The Triplets of Belleville are from the French animated film of the same name. Cole Younger was a real outlaw of the Old West, but his Bowie knife is from the movie The Long Riders. The Hand of Midas is from the animated film Aladdin and the King of Thieves. The TV series Once Upon a Time in Wonderland features a counterpart of the villainous Jafar from Disney’s Aladdin movies. Since that show takes place in the CU, the Hand of Midas referenced here probably hails from Fairy Tale Land, as does Once Upon a Time in Wonderland’s version of Jafar. Steve Austin is the Six Million Dollar Man. The Behinder is from Manly Wade Wellman’s Silver John story “The Desrick on Yandro.”

This write-up, and many more, can be found in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House. As with the first two volumes, this book is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's works Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2.

Saturday, January 14, 2023

Crossover Cover: Deadly Season

 

Are you a Sherlock Holmes fan?

Then you'll love this book in Tim Champlin's series about Wells Fargo messenger Jay McGraw, in which McGraw meets Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in San Francisco in 1885!

For further details, consult my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House. As with the first two volumes, this book is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's essential tomes Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Friday, January 13, 2023

Crossover Movie Poster: Stitches


A clown called Stitches is accidentally killed at a ten-year-old named Tom’s birthday party. Six years later, he returns from the grave seeking revenge. The now-teenage Tom takes a medication called Hypnocil to deal with his visions of Stitches. Hypnocil is from the movies A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and Freddy vs. Jason. Since Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees are in the CU, so is Stitches.

This crossover is only one of hundreds found in my forthcoming book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3! As with the first two volumes, this tome is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's books Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Thursday, January 12, 2023

Crossover Cover: The Documents in the Case

 

Are you a fan of Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries?

Then you'll love this standalone novel cowritten by Sayers that has an appearance by a character from the Wimsey books!

All the details can be found in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published ASAP by Meteor House! As with the first two volumes, this entry is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's seminal books Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes One and Two.

Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Crossover Movie Poster: The Hateful Eight

 

Minnie Mink and Bob both smoke Red Apple tobacco. Oswaldo Mobray’s real name is English Pete Hicox. Red Apple Cigarettes are a recurring brand in Tarantino’s films. English Pete Hicox is an ancestor of Lt. Archie Hicox from Inglourious Basterds.
This is only one of hundreds of works covered in my forthcoming book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3. As with the first two volumes, this book is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's books Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Vols. 1 and 2 and will be published by Meteor House!

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Crossover Covers: Charlie's Angels vs. the Bionic Woman

 





Are you a fan of '70s genre TV?

Then you'll love this comic, which crosses over the heroines of two iconic shows of that era!

All the details can be found in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Vol. 3, coming ASAP from Meteor House. As with the first two volumes, this book is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's superb books Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Vols. 1 and 2, so if you loved those, this book will be a must read!

Monday, January 9, 2023

Crossover TV episode: Case Files

 

In this episode of Twin Peaks: The Return, Richard Horne, the son of Special Agent Dale Cooper’s doppelganger Mr. C and Audrey Horne, gives the corrupt Deputy Chad Broxford money in a Morley Cigarettes package. Morley Cigarettes have appeared in numerous television series and movies, most famously The X-Files. Twin Peaks: The Return is set twenty-five years after the original Twin Peaks, which took place in 1989. 

This is only one of hundreds of works covered in my forthcoming book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Vol. 3, to be published by Meteor House. As with the first two books, this volume is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's books Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Vols. 1 and 2!

Sunday, January 8, 2023

Crossover of the Week

Summer 1940
THE TRIUMPH OF FRANKENSTEIN 
Gouroull, the inhuman monster created by Victor Frankenstein, travels to the South American country of San Pedro and enlists his creator’s relative Dr. Elizabeth Frankenstein to make him a mate. Appearing or mentioned are a French werewolf, Hans, a dead Spanish Templar, the Kane newspapers, the Daily Beast, a giant rat killing people in Dutch East India, Selenian vampire tongue, the Pretorius Apothecary, Karnstein Castle, the Deep Ones, General Juan Murillo, Szell, West, Dr. Janos Rukh, Jack, Alfie Alperin, Sherlock Holmes, Hidalgo, the Pine people, the Ancients, “A foreign colonel named Bozo or something,” Lyte & Tremain, Captain Jack of the English Navy, Dracula, some booksellers called Ceniza, Moreau, a blind German engineer, a woman in Japan, Fritz, Fen-Chu, a faraway plateau surrounded by dreadful giant lizards, Clarke, Gladys, Wooster, mnophka, the black lotus, Clyde Burke, Spratt, Daka, a doctor who created an artificial woman from the spilled sperm of a hanged man, a circus knife-thrower, and Nephren-Ka. 
Novel by Frank Schildiner, Black Coat Press, 2017. Gouroull is the version of the Frankenstein monster seen in novels by Jean-Claude Carrière. San Pedro and its former President, Juan Murillo, are from Doyle and Watson’s Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge.” The giant rat in Dutch East India is a nod to the Giant Rat of Sumatra, mentioned in the Holmes story “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire.” The blind German engineer is Von Herder, the designer of Colonel Sebastian Moran’s air gun in “The Adventure of the Empty House.” The French werewolf is Bertrand Caillet from Guy Endore’s The Werewolf of Paris. Hans is Hans Beckert from the movie M. The mummified Spanish Templars are from the Blind Dead Spanish horror film series. The Kane newspapers are from Orson Welles’ classic film Citizen Kane. The Daily Beast is from Evelyn Waugh’s novel Scoop. Selene is from Paul Féval’s Vampire City. The Pretorius Apothecary refers to Dr. Septimus Pretorius from the movie Bride of Frankenstein. The Karnstein family is from J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla.” The Deep Ones from H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow over Innsmouth.” Dr. Christian Szell is from William Goldman’s novel Marathon Man. West is the title character of Lovecraft’s “Herbert West – Reanimator.” Dr. Janos Rukh is from the movie The Invisible Ray. Jack Woltz is from Mario Puzo’s novel The Godfather. Alfie Alperin is from the movie Sunset. Hidalgo is from the Doc Savage novels. The Pine People are the Shonokins from Manly Wade Wellman’s John Thunstone stories. The Ancients are from Wellman’s Silver John story “Shiver in the Pines.” The Colonel is Colonel Bozzo-Corona, the leader of the criminal society known as the Black Coats in Féval’s novels. Lyte & Tremain is a reference to Esther Forbes’ novel Johnny Tremain. Captain Jack of the English Navy is Captain Jack Aubrey from Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin novels. Dracula is self-explanatory. This novel utilizes Chuck Loridans’ “soul-clone” theory, created to reconcile several seemingly contradictory Dracula stories into a single continuity. The Ceniza family is from Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s novel The Club Dumas. Moreau is from H. G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau. The woman in Japan is Dr. Kanoto Yoshimuta, the future Madame Atomos, from André Caroff’s novels. Fritz assisted Dr. Henry Frankenstein in his original experiments, as seen in the 1931 Universal film Frankenstein. Fen-Chu is from George Fronval’s L’Enigmatique Fen-Chu. The faraway plateau is Maple White Land from Arthur Conan Doyle and Edward D. Malone’s The Lost World. Bob “Doc” Clarke is better known as the Crimson Mask, whose battle against crime was chronicled by Norman A. Daniels and other authors writing as “Frank Johnson” in Detective Novels Magazine from August 1940-April 1944. Gladys is the future Mrs. Gladys Kravitz from the TV series Bewitched. Bertie Wooster is from P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves books. Mnophka is from Clark Ashton Smith’s “The Plutonian Drug.” The black lotus is from Robert E. Howard’s Conan stories. Burke is an agent of a certain slouch-hatted mystery man. Dr. Lancelot Spratt is from the Doctor books by Richard Gordon. Dr. Tito Daka is the villain of the 1943 Batman serial. Elizabeth’s doctor friend in Germany is Jakob ten Brinken from Hanns Heinz Ewers’ Alraune. The circus knife-thrower is Alonzo the Armless from the movie The Unknown. Nephren-Ka is from Lovecraft’s “The Haunter of the Dark.” 
This crossover write-up, and hundreds more, can be found in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Vol. 3, to be published ASAP by Meteor House!

Saturday, January 7, 2023

Crossover Covers: Anno Dracula

 







Are you a fan of Kim Newman's alternate history vampire series Anno Dracula?

Then you'll love these additions to that series, which will be covered in an appendix entitled "The Anno Dracula Universe and Character Guide" in my forthcoming book Crossovers Expanded Vol. 3, to be published by Meteor House!

Friday, January 6, 2023

Crossover Cover: The Instrument of Death

 

In 1896, Sherlock Holmes goes up against the mesmerist Dr. Gustav Caligari, who has turned an innocent man into a murderous somnambulist. At the end of this case, Watson reports that Caligari, having fled the hangman, eventually settled in Germany, where he created another somnambulistic killer named Cesare before being captured and placed in an insane asylum. Dr. Caligari and Cesare are from Robert Wiene’s 1920 German silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

This novel is only one of hundreds of works that will be covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Vol. 3, the third AUTHORIZED companion volume to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Vols. 1 and 2. As with the first two volumes, Vol. 3 will be published by the fine folks at Meteor House!

Thursday, January 5, 2023

Crossover Cover: Tarzan: Battle for Pellucidar

 

Are you a fan of the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs?

Then you'll love this novel by the creator of the Crossover Universe, Win Scott Eckert! An official Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe novel published by ERB, Inc., it pits Tarzan against Nazis in Pellucidar. Many other Burroughs works are referenced, as well as a few other authorized pastiches that have been integrated into the ERB Universe and some original stories of Burroughs' characters in other media, such as comic strips and animation.

All the details can be found in my book Crossovers Expanded Vol. 3, coming from Meteor House ASAP!

Wednesday, January 4, 2023

Crossover TV Episode: Prey

 

In this episode of Endeavour set in early June 1967, Chief Superintendent Bright recounts how he once encountered a man-eating tiger “in India, before the war. I was a young subaltern in the colonial police. Not far from Pankot, where there’d been all that Thuggee business in '35.” Pankot and the Thuggee business there in 1935 are a direct reference to the movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

As you may be able to guess from the above, I am officially resurrecting the Crossover Universe blog to share previews and teasers for Crossovers Expanded Vol. 3. More to come, so keep an eye out!