Crossover of the Week

September-October 2012

A HELL WITHIN 

Sheriff Carl Price and mercenary turned private eye Wade Griffin combat a series of killings committed by a demon summoned by a madman. Griffin asks their ally, occult expert Carter Decamp, if Kharrn’s weapons can stop a demon, and if this has anything to do with the Moon-Eyes or the Old Ones. Carl and Griffin are aided by psychometrist Cindy Kane, whose father is also a medium. Decamp gives Griffin a demon-detecting compass once belonging to Thomas Carnacki. Decamp and his apprentice Charon, Griffin’s girlfriend, have brunch at a waffle house recommended to Decamp by an associate, Deacon Chalk. Browsing Decamp’s library, Cindy recognizes a lot of volumes that her father and Decamp’s mutual friend Adam has in his own collection, including Kirowan’s Myths of the Little People. Decamp possesses a silver-edged sword that once belonged to another occult investigator. Carl is attacked by Hellhounds, which are described as “the Black Dogs, Old Shuck, and the great beasts of the Baskervilles.” 

Novel by James A. Moore and Charles R. Rutledge, 2018. Kharrn is an immortal barbarian featured in several of Rutledge’s works. The Great Old Ones are from the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft. Carl and Griffin encountered one of the Great Old Ones, Shub-Niggurath, in their first appearance, Blind Shadows. Cindy Kane’s father is Elliot Kane, a medium and friend of Dr. Adam Spektor in Donald F. Glut’s comic book The Occult Files of Dr. Spektor. Thomas Carnacki is from William Hope Hodgson’s Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder. “Occult bounty hunter” Deacon Chalk is the protagonist of a series of novels by James R. Tuck. Kirowan is Robert E. Howard’s occult detective John Kirowan, who encountered the Little People in “The Children of the Night.” Blind Shadows implied Decamp’s sword was the same one once wielded by Manly Wade Wellman’s character Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant. The great beasts of the Baskervilles are a reference to Doyle and Watson’s Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. 

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

Crossover Cover: Captain Nemo

 

Are you a fan of Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea?

Then you'll love this novel by Czech author "J. M. Troska" (Jan Matzal), in which his inventor characters Arne Farin and Pavel Holan, the protagonists of two series that crossed over with each other, meet Captain Nemo!

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

Crossover Movie Poster: The Mistresses of Dr. Jekyll

 

This film is directed by Jesús Franco as "Jess Franck," one of his many pseudonyms. In the village of Holfen, Dr. Conrad Jekyll creates a monster based on the research of his mentor, Dr. Orloff. Holfen is also the setting of The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus and other films by Franco. Dr. Conrad Jekyll is doubtless a descendant of Dr. Henry Jekyll. Dr. Orloff is the villain of The Awful Dr. Orloff and several other films by Franco.

This crossover is one of hundreds that will be included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3! Like the first two volumes, this one is a fully official and 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!

Crossover Cover: The Island of the Day Before

 

Are you a fan of author Umberto Eco?

Then you'll love this novel, which contains not only a reference to his book The Name of the Rose, but also an appearance by a character from Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers!

For more information, consult my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3! Much like the first two books, this one is 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!

Crossover TV Episode: Apollo

 

In this episode of Endeavour set in late July of 1969, Chief Inspector Thursday says a murdered astrophysicist bought his faulty car from the Winsome Welshmen, Dudley and Dunstan. Dudley and Dunstan Dorchester, the Winsome Welshmen, are from the movie School for Scoundrels. The Bellini, a fictional car from that film, was previously mentioned in the Endeavour episode “Rocket.”

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

Crossover Cover: Too Many Detectives

 

Are you a fan of classic detective fiction?

Then you'll love this novel by Kyotaro Nishimura, in which Maigret, Ellery Queen, Hercule Poirot, and Kogoro Akechi battle Arsene Lupin and the Fiend with Twenty Faces!

For more information, be sure to purchase 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 Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Covers: Hack/Slash vs. Vampirella

 

In Las Vegas, Cassie Hack and Vlad team up with Vampirella to stop the Blood Queen, who is stealing hearts to summon the god, Chaos. The Blood Queen is a fictionalized version of the historical Countess Elizabeth Bathory featured in a series published by Dynamite. The Countess has made several other appearances in the CU, most notably the movie Daughters of Darkness.

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

Crossover of the Week

Summer 1946
HANNAH AND HER MOTHER TAKE A VERY LONG LUNCH 
Hannah Peaslee Beckett is pulled from the path of an oncoming car through space (but not time) by her mother Alice Keezar, a time traveler, for lunch at Monk’s café in New York. Hannah says she preferred the coffee at the Nite Owl in L.A. in the '30s, but Alice replies they can’t go there anymore since the cook and waitress were killed in 1950. Alice tells Hannah her grandson will be called the next Einstein and will be raised by his parents on a dairy farm in Indiana. If Hannah goes back to her husband Sam and son John Samuel, they won’t go to the family farm in Indiana and John won’t meet Thelma Louise and have the children they need to have. 
Short story by Peter Rawlik in The Peaslee Papers: A Lovecraftian Chronicle, Lovecraft eZine Press, 2017. Hannah Peaslee and her mother Alice Keezar are from H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Out of Time.” Monk’s Café is from the TV series Seinfeld. The Nite Owl Café is from James Ellroy’s novel L.A. Confidential. By extension, the other novels in Ellroy’s L.A. Quartet (The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, and White Jazz), the Second L.A. Quartet (so far consisting of Perfidia and This Storm), the Underworld USA Trilogy (American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood’s a Rover), and the standalone novel Clandestine also take place in the CU. John Samuel Beckett and Thelma Louise Beckett are the parents of Sam Beckett, the protagonist of the TV series Quantum Leap. 

This crossover writeup is one of hundreds included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3! As with the first two volumes, this one is an official and 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!

Crossover Cover: Blitz

 

Are you a fan of the Urban Fantasy genre?

Then you'll love the third novel in Daniel O'Malley's Checquy Files series, which has crossovers with works running the gamut from the James Bond novels to the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks!

For more information, be sure to buy my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3! Like the first two volumes, this latest one is an AUTHORIZED companion to Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2 by Win Scott Eckert and will be published by Meteor House!

Crossover TV Episode: Love Boat

 

In this episode of NCIS, the agents are looking for the murderer of a Lieutenant aboard a destroyer. The victim’s cousin is from Derry, Maine, a town from the connected works of Stephen King. 

This crossover is one of hundreds discussed in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be released by Meteor House! Like the first two volumes released in 2016, this one is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's books Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2, published by Black Coat Press in 2010!

Crossover Cover: Blood of the Hummingbird

 

Are you a fan of author Frank Schildiner?

Then you'll love his story in this anthology, which has references to everything from the Conan stories to the World War II-set British sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!

For the 411, check out 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: Toys in the Attic

 

The first appearance of the post-Crisis on Infinite Earths version of Superman’s foe the Toyman. The Man of Steel is told about the villain by two unnamed British intelligence agents who are clearly John Steed and Emma Peel. In general, it is preferable to keep the few superheroes in the CU in their original publication era. This, combined with the fact that the end of the story ties in with a companywide crossover event called Millennium, makes this comic an AU. 

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

Crossover Cover: Pomfret Towers

 

Are you a fan of the works of William Makepeace Thackeray?

Then you'll love this novel, part of a series by Angela Thirkell set in Anthony Trollope's fictional English county of Barsetshire, that has a crossover nod to Thackeray's The History of Pendennis!

For more information, be sure to purchase a copy of 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 Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Movie Poster: Leprechaun 3

 

Father Bob is seen gambling at a Las Vegas casino. The Father first appeared in director Brian Trenchard-Smith's film Night of the Demons 2, which must take place after Leprechaun 3, since Bob is killed in the former. The Leprechaun films are in the CU through the one-shot Hack/Slash: Entry Wound, so the Night of the Demons films are as well.

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

Crossover of the Week

Winter 2018
THE LIBRARIANS AND THE POT OF GOLD 
The Librarians must find a leprechaun’s long-lost pot of gold before their old foes the Serpent Brotherhood can get their hands on it. Before that, the team deals with a seeming haunting at the Paris Opera House by a party that is seeking the only copy of the Phantom’s concerto, Don Juan Triumphant. The new Opera Ghost reveals to Jake Stone and Ezekiel Jones that he is the descendant of Erik and Christine Daaé, the consummation of whose relationship Gaston Leroux left out of his novel. Cassandra Cillian, before directly encountering the new Opera Ghost, wonders if the book was based on a real person who is still around, like with Dorian Gray. The Librarians’ Guardian, Colonel Eve Baird, having trouble reaching Jake and Ezekiel on her phone, remembers running into the same problem while buried alive beneath the Mountains of Madness. The Librarians play Trivial Pursuit; all three of them have mastered the Geography category, though Baird doubts there are too many Geography questions concerning Shangri-La, El Dorado, or the Bermuda Triangle. The Library holds everything from Penelope’s unfinished tapestry to Prufrock’s intimidating peach. Included in the Hibernian Wing is a copy of Bram Stoker’s book The Lair of the White Worm, which Jenkins describes as, “One of his lesser works, to be frank, but not nearly as fictional as generally believed.” Serpent Brotherhood member Max Lambton knows that magic wishes, be they granted by fairies, devils, djinns, or a mummified monkey’s paw, almost invariably backfire on the wisher, no matter how carefully the wish is phrased. Jenkins says a chasm he and Cassandra encounter reminds him of a bottomless pit he once encountered while in pursuit of a certain grail. Stone, battling Max, adopts a fighting stance taught to him by none other than the Monkey King himself. Ezekiel cracks a Glenn-Rieder X-3000 vault. 
2018 novel by Greg Cox. Erik the Opera Ghost, Christine Daaé, and Don Juan Triumphant are from Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera. Dorian Gray is from Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. The Mountains of Madness are from H. P. Lovecraft’s novella “At the Mountains of Madness.” Shangri-La is from James Hilton’s Lost Horizon. Penelope’s unfinished tapestry is from Homer’s The Odyssey. Prufrock’s intimidating peach is from T. S. Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” The events of Bram Stoker’s novel The Lair of the White Worm have been established as part of the CU. The mummified monkey’s paw is from W. W. Jacobs’ “The Monkey’s Paw.” The mention of a bottomless pit in conjunction with the Holy Grail is a reference to the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, is from Wu Cheng’en’s Journey to the West. Glenn-Rieder security systems are from the TV series Leverage. 

This crossover writeup is one of hundreds found in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3! As with 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 and will be published by Meteor House!

Crossover Cover: Black and White Ball

 

Are you a fan of Loren D. Estleman's novels about private eye Amos Walker?

Then you'll love this novel, in which Walker meets another of Estleman's series characters, hitman Peter Macklin!

For more information, check out my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3! As with the first two volumes, this one is a fully official and 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!

Crossover Covers: G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero vs the Six Million Dollar Man

The terrorist organization COBRA takes control of bionic OSI agent Steve Austin, forcing G.I. Joe to intervene. After being freed of COBRA’s influence, Steve, about to sacrifice his life, asks the Joes to tell Jaime Sommers he loves her, though in the end he survives. Jaime Sommers is the Bionic Woman. Based on a theater marquee promoting the movie Time Bandits, this story takes place in 1981.

This crossover is one among hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3! As with the first two books, this one is 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!

Crossover Cover: Sherlock Holmes & the Green Lama: The Heir Apparent

 

Are you a fan of Kendell Crossen's pulp hero the Green Lama?

Then you'll love this novel in which the future Lama, Jethro Dumont, teams up with Sherlock Holmes!

For more details, consult my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House! Much 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 TV Episode: A Virus Among Us

 

In this episode of the TV series The Pretender, Jarod joins a disease control organization to investigate the murder of a virologist who belonged to the group. Among the diseases they combated was the Motaba virus, a Level Four pathogen. The Motaba Virus is from the movie Outbreak. Since The Pretender takes place in the CU, so does Outbreak. The Pretender also had three crossovers with the show Profiler, bringing it in as well.

For more crossovers like this, check out my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are official and AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: The Cavalier's Cup

 

Are you a fan of John Dickson Carr's detective fiction?

Then you'll love the last novel in his Sir Henry Merrivale series, written as Carter Dickson, which has an appearance by a character from one of Carr's Dr. Gideon Fell novels!

For more information, 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 official and AUTHORIZED companion to Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2 by Win Scott Eckert!

Crossover Movie Poster: Out of the Past

 

Meta Carson reads Isobel Sedbusk’s book Murder on the Footbridge, which first appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1941 movie Suspicion. Jake Cutter read the same book in the Tales of the Gold Monkey episode “The Sultan of Swat.” The book also appears in the movie The Notorious Landlady.

This crossover is one among hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! Much 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 of the Week

Autumn 1940

THE STUFF THAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF 

Private eye Steve Donnelly, investigating his partner’s murder, becomes involved in the struggle between worshippers of the Great Old Ones called the Olde Fellowes over a statue of Cthulhu. One of the Olde Fellowes, Constantine Garland, names various objects that, like the statue, can bestow upon the bearer unimaginable power and are being sought by the Nazis, including the Scroll of Thoth, the Lament Configuration, the Ark of the Covenant, the Eye of Agomotto, and the Spear of Destiny. A mysterious barman comes to Steve’s rescue, and says he knows his granddaughter. Steve, befuddled, says he’s thirty-three, but the barman replies he won’t always be. 

Short story by Peter Atkins in The Lovecraft Squad: Waiting, Pegasus Books, 2017. Steve Donnelly is the grandfather of Atkins’ modern lesbian P.I. Kitty Donnelly. The Scroll of Thoth is from the 1932 film The Mummy. The Lament Configuration is from the Hellraiser films, based on Clive Barker’s “The Hellbound Heart.” Not coincidentally, Atkins wrote or co-wrote the scripts for Hellbound: Hellraiser II, Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, and Hellraiser: Bloodline. The Ark of the Covenant is from the Book of Exodus, but given the other references, this is probably a specific allusion to the first Indiana Jones film, Raiders of the Lost Ark. The Eye of Agamotto (to use the correct spelling) is one of the mystic talismans wielded by Marvel Comics’ Sorcerer Supreme, Dr. Stephen Strange. The barman is Atkins’ character Dr. James Arcadia, who has been described as somewhat akin to an occult version of Doctor Who. 

This crossover writeup is one of hundreds included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be released by Meteor House! Much 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: Search for the Beast

 

Are you a fan of the late great New Pulp author Derrick Ferguson?

Then you'll love this film novelization by him that adds in nods to Joel Jenkins' rock stars/mercenaries the Gantlet Brothers and the Joan Crawford film Berserk!

For more information, consult 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 Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell

 

Sherlock Holmes battles the Cenobites from the Hellraiser films, based on Clive Barker’s “The Hellbound Heart.” Henri D’Amour, apparently an ancestor of Barker’s detective Harry D’Amour, appears. The fates revealed for Professor Moriarty and Colonel Moran are at odds with their post-1896 appearances in the CU. Watson references the events of Guy Ritchie’s 2009 film Sherlock Holmes, which does not fit with the continuity of Doyle’s stories. Moriarty, taunting Holmes with his failures, mentions Enola, a reference to Nancy Springer’s series of novels about Enola Holmes, Sherlock’s younger sister. In Springer’s novels, Enola and her brothers’ mother is Lady Eudoria Vernet Holmes, while in the CU, the Holmes siblings’ mother is the former Violet Rutherford. Therefore, this novel must take place in an alternate universe.

This crossover, and hundreds more like it, are covered in my 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 Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Movie Poster: Ace in the Hole

 

Are you a fan of Billy Wilder's classic film noir Double Indemnity?

Then you'll love the connection to it in this film!

For more information, see my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! Like the ones before it, this volume is an AUTHORIZED companion to Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2 by Win Scott Eckert!

Crossover Cover: Beyond the Grave

 

In April 1894, John Quincannon, Sabina Carpenter’s partner in the San Francisco-based firm Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services, is hired by Felipe Velasquez to find a treasure chest containing valuable religious icons that Velasquez’ father had a priest bury in 1846, during the Bear Flag Revolution. Unfortunately, he fails in his task. In 1986, Elena Oliverez, director of the Museum of Mexican Art in Santa Barbara, wins a marriage coffer in an auction that contains Quincannon’s notes on the case. Elena faces danger as she tries to find the treasure herself. Elena Oliverez previously appeared in Muller’s novels The Tree of Death and The Legend of the Slain Soldiers, as well as the short story “The Sanchez Sacraments.” Muller and Pronzini’s Carpenter and Quincannon mysteries are in the CU through a crossover with Sherlock Holmes, so this novel brings in Elena Oliverez.

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

Crossover Cover: Bane Enters the Ring

Are you a fan of the 1960s Batman TV series?

Then you'll love this issue of the Batman '66 comic book that has appearances by El Santo and Mil Mascaras!

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

Crossover TV Episode: M.A.D.

 

In this episode of Veronica Mars, Logan Echolls’ father’s boat is docked at the Albacore Club on Catalina. The Albacore Club is originally from the movie Chinatown. Since Veronica Mars is in the CU, so is private eye J. J. “Jake” Gittes, the protagonist of Chinatown and its sequel, The Two Jakes.

This crossover, and hundreds more like it, are covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be a Meteor House release! Much like its predecessors, this latest volume is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover of the Week

Winter 1990
DWELLING IN THE DARK 
Peyton Westlake, aka Darkman, meets with gangster Frank White disguised as his lawyer Joey Dalesio, who he diverted to another location after his meeting with Arty Clay. The vigilante is trying to find out who Robert Durant’s superior was. White and Durant are both members of the Black Coats, whose leader is Colonel Bozzo-Corona. Westlake spends the next several months traveling the country, clashing with Marsellus Wallace and posing as a fixer for Keyser Söze. He also gets valuable information on Gordon Gekko by posing as various employees of Jackson Steinem & Co., after two unsuccessful attempts to question him, first while impersonating FBI Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast and later as reporter Carl Kolchak. Westlake comes face-to-face with the Colonel and his executioner, the Marchef. The Colonel mentions Westlake’s girlfriend, Julie Hastings, and says the last person who was able to hold his own against the Marchef was the Nyctalope. 
Short story by Matthew Dennion in Tales of the Shadowmen Volume 16: Voir Dire, Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier, eds., Black Coat Press, 2019; reprinted in French in Les Compagnons de l’Ombre (Tome 27), Jean-Marc Lofficier, ed., Rivière Blanche, 2020. Darkman is from the titular movie and its sequels, as are Robert Durant and Julie Hastings. Frank White, Joey Dalesio, and Arty Clay are from the movie King of New York. The Black Coats, Colonel Bozzo-Corona, and the Marchef are from Paul Féval’s crime novels. Marsellus Wallace is from the film Pulp Fiction. Keyser Söze is from the movie The Usual Suspects. Gordon Gekko and Jackson Steinem & Co. are from the movie Wall Street. Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast is the protagonist of a series of novels by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Carl Kolchak is from the TV series Kolchak: The Night Stalker. The Nyctalope is Jean de La Hire’s pulp hero. 

This crossover writeup is one of hundreds included 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 latest one is an AUTHORIZED continuation of Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Das Verschwinden des Doktor Jekyll

 

Are you a fan of Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde?

Then you might enjoy this issue of the German pulp magazine Detektiv John Spurlock in which Jekyll appears!

For more information, see 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 Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2 by Win Scott Eckert!

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