Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Crossover Cover: The Nine Bears


T. B. Smith, an Assistant Commissioner with Scotland Yard, briefly meets Superintendent Elk, the protagonist of his own series of novels by Wallace, with his rank sometimes varying, including Detective Sgt. and Inspector. Elk is in the CU, so this novel brings in T. B. Smith, who went on to appear in The Admirable Carfew, The Secret House, and Kate Plus Ten

This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which is to 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!

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Crossover Cover: Gallows Thief

 

Are you a fan of Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series?

Then you'll love this standalone novel by him, which has a pair of links placing it in the same universe as Richard Sharpe's exploits!

For more information, be sure to purchase my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when it's 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!

Monday, May 29, 2023

Crossover Cover: You Will Never Leave Harlan Alive

 

Jonathan Maberry's story in this anthology takes place in 1989. Police Captain Bosch has left New York City and is now a county sheriff in Kentucky. Blue Diamond Security is mentioned.  Captain Bosch is from the movie C.H.U.D. Blue Diamond Security is from Maberry’s Joe Ledger series. Since Ledger is in the CU, so are the characters of C.H.U.D. and its sequel, C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud

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

Sunday, May 28, 2023

Crossover of the Week

Summer 1905

STAGECOACH MARY’S LAST RIDE-OUT 

Stagecoach Mary Fields teams up with a group of other famous individuals to clear the name of Jim Allen. Appearing or mentioned are: Durand; John Howdy; John Reid; Alfred Tabor; the Preacher; George Krumm; Black Jack Spade; Pete Reeves; Apache Gordon; Luke Oland; Jim Hoover; Duke Bagley; the White Wolf; the Ringo Kid; the Comanche Kid; the Tall Man; Hungry Hawkins; Long Sam Littlejohn; Tex Bulwer; Mazeppa; Shatterhand; Jim Kannah; Old Wawerly; Readestown; “that temple down in the Yucatan”; Don Muerte; the Coyote; Two-Gun Smith; Wah Lee; Tex Willer; Clementine Newton; Django Freeman; Chisolm; Tempest Cody; and Winoga. 

Story by Jess Nevins in Stagecoach Mary, 2016. Jim Allen (aka the White Wolf) appeared in stories by “Walker A. Tompkins” (Hal Dunning) in Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly. Durand appeared in three stories by Duane Hopkins in Short Stories in 1934. John Howdy is better known as Pa Howdy, whose tales were told by Laurence Donovan in Detective Fiction Weekly and G-Men Detective. John Reid is the former Lone Ranger. Alfred Tabor is Sonny Tabor, from Ward M. Stevens’” (Paul S. Powers) tales in Wild West Weekly. Captain William McDowell is Captain “Roaring Bill” McDowell from “Jackson Cole’s” (A. Leslie Scott) Jim Hatfield stories in Texas Rangers. The Preacher is Preacher Devlin, from L. L. Foreman’s stories in Western Aces and Western Story Magazine. George Krumm is the sidekick of “Andrew A. Griffin’s” (Paul S. Powers) Johnny Forty-Five, another Wild West Weekly character. Black Jack Spade is an alias used by Duke Buckland, whose two-gun exploits were recounted by Frederick C. Davis in Western Trails. Pete Reeves is from “David Manning’s” (Frederick Faust) Bull Hunter stories in Western Story Magazine. Apache Gordon is from George C. Henderson’s Apache and Wagonwheel stories in Wild West Weekly. Luke Oland is a foe of Marvel Comics’ Western hero the Two-Gun Kid. Jim Hoover is the title character of “Big Ben” (Willi Richard Sachse) and “F. L. Barwin’s” (Lisa Barthel Winkler and Fritz Barthel) German pulp magazine Alaska-Jim, ein Held der kanadischen Polizei. Duke Bagley appeared in stories by William R. Cox in Star Western. The Ringo Kid is either John Wayne’s character from Stagecoach or the Marvel Comics cowboy of that name. The Comanche Kid’s tales were told by Cherry Wilson in Western Story Magazine and Far West Stories. The Tall Man is from the Phantasm films. Hungry Hawkins is from the Hungry and Rusty stories by Samuel H. Nickels in Wild West Weekly. Bud Jones was the subject of a series of tales by J. Allan Dunn in Wild West Weekly. Long Sam Littlejohn is from Lee Bond’s stories in Texas Rangers. Tex Bulwer is from the German pulp Tex Bulwer, Abenteuer im Wilden Westen. Mazeppa is from the German pulp Texas Jack der Berühmteste Indianerkämper. Old Shatterhand is from Karl May’s Western novels. Jim Kannah is from “Suton Caryl’s” (Max Hody) Belgian pulp magazines Les Mysteres du Far-West; Jim Kannah, le Roi du Far-West; Les Drames du Mexique; and Les Mysteres du Far West (not the same title as the above). Old Wawerly is better known as the New Leatherstocking from the German pulp Der Neue Lederstrumpf. Readestown is from the Frank Reade, Jr. stories by “Noname” (Luis P. Senarens). “That temple down in the Yucatan” is from Dr. Adrian Mohr’s German pulp Rolf Rodewalds Reise um den Erdball. Don Muerte is from Harry F. Olmsted’s stories in Star Western. The Coyote is from the series of stories by “Carter Mulford” (José Mallorqui). Tucson “Two-Gun” Smith is one of the Three Mesquiteers, from William Colt McDonald’s stories and novels. Wah Lee, the Shooting Gallery Kid, was the subject of two stories by W. Ryerson Johnson in Street & Smith's Western Story Magazine in 1943. Tex Willer is the title character of Gianluigi Bonelli’s comic strip. Clementine Newton is related to one of the aides of the avenging pulp hero with malleable skin. Django Freeman is from the movie Django Unchained. Sam Chisolm is from the 2016 remake of The Magnificent Seven. Tempest Cody was a cowgirl who appeared in nine films in 1919. Winoga is from the German pulp Winoga, der Letzte Mohikaner. Many of the characters in Wild West Weekly crossed over with each other, establishing them in the same universe, including Austin Gridley’s Pete Rice, Sonny Tabor, Cleve Endicott’s Billy West and the boys of the Circle J Ranch, Charles E. Barnes’ Bar U Twins, Lee Bond’s Oklahoma Kid, Allan R. Bosworth’s Blackstone Bangs and his fictionalized version of Judge Roy Bean, William A. Todd’s Risky McKee, J. Allan Dunn’s Whistlin’ Kid and Sleepy Sloane, Paul S. Powers’ Kid Wolf, Johnny Forty-Five, the White Wolf, and Walker A. Tompkins’ Tommy Rockford and the Border Eagle. 

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!

Saturday, May 27, 2023

Crossover Covers: Vampirella vs. Reanimator

 




Are you a Vampirella fan?

Then you'll love this comic, in which she crosses paths with Herbert West of Reanimator fame!

For more information, be sure to pick up my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when it is published by Meteor House! 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!

Friday, May 26, 2023

Crossover Cover: Peace Talks

 

Harry Dresden battles the Cornerhounds, creatures from the Outside, whom he also refers to as the Hounds of Tindalos. The Hounds of Tindalos are from the eponymous Cthulhu Mythos story by Frank Belknap Long, although Harry mistakenly attributes it to H. P. Lovecraft.

For hundreds more crossovers like this, check out 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!

Thursday, May 25, 2023

Crossover Cover: Bulldog Drummond at Bay

 

Are you a fan of H. C. "Sapper" McNeile's Bulldog Drummond novels?

Then you'll love this book, which is the second team-up between Drummond and another of McNeile's series characters, Ronald Standish!

For more information, consult 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!

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Crossover Movie Poster: Little Rita of the West

 

In this musical comedy spaghetti western, gunslinger Little Rita, with the help of a tribe of Indians, attempts to rid the world of gold, which she and they view as the root of all evil. She battles Ringo and Django, killing them and taking their gold, then blowing it up along with all the other gold she’s gathered. Ringo (played by Kirk Morris) dresses, looks, and acts nothing like the different versions of Ringo played by Giuliano Gemma in A Pistol for Ringo and The Return of Ringo, but Django (played by Enzo Di Natale) dresses like Franco Nero’s version of the character, carries a coffin with a machine gun inside it, and has gold he stole from Mexicans who crushed his hands, an event that occurred in Sergio Corbucci’s original film. The portrayal of Ringo and Django as villains, and their deaths, make this an AU.

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! 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!

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Crossover Cover: Shi: Pandora's Box


Are you a fan of Billy Tucci's character Shi?

Then you'll love this comic, in which an ancestor of the heroine meets another comic book "bad girl" who's already been established as part of the CU, Pandora!

For more details, check out 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 indispensable works Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Monday, May 22, 2023

Crossover Cover: Guy Garrick

 

Scientific detective Guy Garrick wheels out a contraption he says is called a rayograph by “a detective of my acquaintance.” Garrick and his assistant Tom Marshall plant a false story in the New York Star.  Garrick’s acquaintance is Reeve’s other scientific detective, Craig Kennedy, who used the rayograph in The Dream Doctor. Kennedy’s sidekick Walter Jameson was a reporter for the New York Star. Since Craig Kennedy is in the CU, so is Guy Garrick.

For hundreds 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 AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Sunday, May 21, 2023

Crossover of the Week

November-December 4, 1804

NAPOLEON’S VAMPIRE HUNTERS 

Jean-Pierre Séverin, the director of the Paris Morgue, and exorcist Franz von Karnstein are recruited by Napoleon Bonaparte to prevent the vampire Marquis de Saint-Evremonde and his army of werewolves from taking his life before he can be crowned Emperor. Appearing or mentioned are a harridan knitting as people were guillotined, Kronos, Grost, Vicomte de Meilcour, Countess Mircalla of Styria, Baron Vordenburg, the Scholomance, the Deep School, the Rue Morgue, Estaminet de l’Epi-Scié, Châteaupers, a man named Thénardier and his wife, the Dark Academy, the Brotherhood of the Ram, the Necronomicon, Bertrand des Amis, the Vicomte de Valmont. Geof, Cabot, the legendary Monsieur de Bergerac, the Marquis de la Tour d’Azyr, Father Sandor, a being in a pale robe of indeterminate color and a yellow mask, Saint-Evremonde's descendant, the Domdaniel, Dr. Patou, and the Countess Marcian Gregoryi. 

Novel by Frank Schildiner, Black Coat Press, 2017. Jean-Pierre Séverin, Dr. Germain Patou, and Countess Marcian Gregoryi are from Paul Féval’s The Vampire Countess. The Estaminet de l’Epi-Scié is from Féval’s novels about the criminal conspiracy known as the Black Coats. The Karnstein family, including Countess Mircalla, and the Barons Vordenburg are from J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla.” The knitting harridan (Madame Defarge) and the Marquis de Saint-Evremonde's descendant (Charles Darnay) are from Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities. Captain Kronos and Professor Hieronymous Grost are from the movie Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter. The Vicomte de Meilcour is from Crébillon fils’ novel Strayings of the Heart and Mind, or Memoirs of M. De Meilcour. The Scholomance and the Deep School are supposedly real schools of magic mentioned in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Manly Wade Wellman’s John Thunstone stories, respectively. The Rue Morgue is from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” Captain Phoebus de Châteaupers is from Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre-dame. The Thénardiers are from Hugo’s Les Misérables. The Dark Academy is from the video game Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin. The Brotherhood of the Ram is from Dennis Wheatley’s The Satanist. The Necronomicon is the most infamous tome of H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. Bertrand des Amis and the Marquis de la Tour d’Azyr are from Rafael Sabatini’s Scaramouche. The Vicomte de Valmont is from Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ novel Dangerous Liaisons. “Cabot” is French for “Mutt,” making Cabot and Geof the title characters of Bud Fisher’s comic strip Mutt and Jeff. For an explanation of the duo’s longevity, see Dennis E. Power’s article “Immortal Befuddled,” found on the Wold Newton Universe: A Secret History website. Geof’s relative is the Vicomte de Valvert from Edmond Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac. Father Sandor is from the Hammer film Dracula: Prince of Darkness. Presumably the nineteenth century Sandor is a descendant of the eighteenth-century priest. The being in the pale robe and yellow mask is the King in Yellow, from Robert W. Chambers’ collection of the same name. The Domdaniel is from “Dom Chaves” (Denis Chavis) and Jacques Cazotte’s Arabian Tales; or, A Continuation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments

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

Saturday, May 20, 2023

Crossover Cover: The Great Gatsby

 

Are you a fan of the works of author F. Scott Fitzgerald?

Then you may already know that his most famous work has a nod to one of his other novels, This Side of Paradise!

For more information, be sure to purchase my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when it is 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!

Friday, May 19, 2023

Crossover Cover: The Uncrowned King

 

In the winter of 1794, a tall Englishman brings the young Dauphin, Louis XVII, to the Priory Church of Gmünd. In 1860, Louis’s widow conspires to place their son on the throne of France. When he is captured and imprisoned by Napoleon III’s secret police, his maternal half-brother must assume his identity. The tall Englishman is the Scarlet Pimpernel, whose rescue of the Dauphin was seen in Orczy’s Eldorado.

For lots more cool crossovers like this, check out 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!

Thursday, May 18, 2023

Crossover Cover: Appleby at Allington (aka Death by Water)

 

Are you a fan of Michael Innes' Sir John Appleby mysteries?

Then you'll love this novel, which has nods to William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair and D. H. Lawrence's The Lost Girl!

For more information, consult my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to 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!

Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Crossover TV Episode: Death of a Great Dane

 

In this episode of The Avengers, John Steed identifies Sir James Mann's car as a '61 Hirondel. The Hirondel is the fictional automobile driven by the Saint in Leslie Charteris' novels.

This crossover 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 official and fully AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Crossover Cover: Criminal Macabre/Count Crowley: From the Pit They Came

 

Are you a fan of Steve Niles' comic Criminal Macabre?

Then you'll love this crossover between its protagonist, Cal McDonald, and the title character of David Dastmalchian and Lukas Ketner's comic Count Crowley!

For more information, be sure to pick up a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when it is 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!

Monday, May 15, 2023

Crossover Cover: The Shield of Time

 

Manse Everard, debriefing a Time Patrol agent, says that he will be “securing the Altamont case... It’s in 1912. World War One is brewing. The Germans think they've found a spy who can infiltrate the opposition, an Irish-American called Altamont. Actually, he’s an English agent, and in the end will turn the tables on them very neatly. The trouble from our viewpoint is, he’s too observant and smart. He’s uncovered certain odd goings-on. They could lead him to our military studies group in those years. A member of the group knows me and asked me to come help work up something to divert the man’s attention. Nothing major. Mainly we’ll have to do it in such a way that he doesn’t deduce something still curiouser is afoot. It should be kind of fun.” Altamont is the alias used by Sherlock Holmes in Doyle’s “His Last Bow.”

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! 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!

Sunday, May 14, 2023

Crossover of the Week

Autumn 1922-Winter 1923 

THE SECRETS OF DREARCLIFF GRANGE SCHOOL 

Amy Thomsett, a young girl with the ability to levitate both herself and other people and objects, is enrolled at the Drearcliff Grange School, where she finds that she is not the only student with an Unusual Talent. Forming a secret society called the Moth Club with her friends and taking the alias of the Kentish Glory, she must thwart a takeover of the school by Antoinette Rowley Rayne and her followers, the Black Skirts. Appearing or mentioned are: Miss Violet "Fossil" Borrodale; Lucinda Tregellis d’Aulney, aka the Aviatrix; Irene Dobson; Luna Bartendale; the book My Nine Nights in a Harem; Captain Dennis Rattray, aka Blackfist; the Blue Streak; Lord Piltdown; Ticia Frump; Miss Catriona Kaye; Hans von Hellhund, the Demon Ace; Dr. Shade; night-gaunts; Sally Nikola’s father, the Fifth Most Dangerous Man in the World; Janice Marsh; Singapore Charlie’s; the Scarlet Pimpernel; Zorro; Shrewsbury College; the Old Ones; the Deep Ones; Anthony Zenith; the Mausoleum; Egdon Heath; Isidore Persano and his Worm Unknown to Science; Mr. Roderick Spode; the Mystic Maharajah; Innsmouth, Massachusetts; the Ghidorah, a Black Skirt triad; a rhedosaurus; the Diogenes Club; the Esoteric Order of Dagon; the Black Quorum; the Blood Banner Society; the movie She-Strangler of Shanghai; Box Brothers Bank; Dr. Mabuse; Captain Geoffrey Jeperson; Haghi; the Onion Men; Olivia Gibberne; Di’en Ching; Winnerden Flats; Moria Kratides; the Hydes of March; Buggleskelly; the Duel of the Seven Stars; Ariadne; Hilda Courtney; Lydia Marlowe; Anne Sercombe; Anne D’Arbanvilliers-Cleaver; Cassandra, Heather, and Priscilla Wilding; Susan Foreman; Alraune Ten Brincken; Vera Claythorne; Cunegonde Quive-Smith; and Elva Kyle. 

Novel by Kim Newman, Titan Books, 2015. Violet Borrodale is from Newman’s “Richard Riddle, Boy Detective in 'The Case of the French Spy’.” The Splendid Six, whose members include the Aviatrix, Blackfist, the Blue Streak, Lord Piltdown, and the Mystic Maharajah, are from Newman’s Diogenes Club story “Clubland Heroes.” Hans von Hellhund is from “Clubland Heroes”; an AU version is mentioned in “Coastal City.” Irene Dobson is from Newman’s story “Is There Anybody There?” Luna Bartendale is from Jessie Douglas Kerruish’s novel The Undying Monster. My Nine Nights in a Harem is mentioned in several of Newman’s works. Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the d’Urbervilles reveals that it was authored by Colonel Sebastian Moran. Ticia Frump is the future Morticia Addams from Charles Addams’ comic strip The Addams Family and subsequent TV and movie spin-offs; Frump is Morticia’s maiden name. Catriona Kaye is from the Diogenes Club tales. The Club itself is from Doyle and Watson’s Sherlock Holmes tale “The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter,” which features Sophy Kratides, Moria Kratides’ mother. Dr. Shade is from Newman’s “The Original Dr. Shade.” Night-gaunts and the Old Ones are from H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. Sally Nikola's father is Guy Boothby’s villain Dr. Antonio Nikola. Janice Marsh, a member of the Marsh family of Innsmouth, Massachusetts that has interbred with the aquatic Deep Ones in Lovecraft’s “The Shadow over Innsmouth,” is from Newman’s “The Big Fish” and “Another Fish Story.” She-Strangler of Shanghai is from “The Big Fish.” The Esoteric Order of Dagon is from Lovecraft’s story. Singapore Charlie’s is from Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu novels. The Scarlet Pimpernel and Zorro need no introduction. Shrewsbury College is from Dorothy L. Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey novel Gaudy Night. Anthony Zenith is Zenith the Albino, detective Sexton Blake’s archenemy. Blake went up against the Black Quorum in the serial Mystery of No. 13 Caversham Square by Pierre Quiroule. The League of the Onion Men battled Blake in a storyline by Gwyn Evans. The Mausoleum is from the Diogenes Club tale “Sorcerer Conjurer Wizard Witch.” Egdon Heath is from Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native and Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall. Isidore (originally Isadora) Persano and the worm unknown to science are from the Holmes story “The Problem of Thor Bridge.” Roderick Spode is from P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves books. The Ghidorah is named after the monster from the Godzilla film Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster. Since the massive destruction of public property in Japan seen in most Godzilla films is not compatible with the CU, Godzilla and Ghidorah’s rampages must have been fewer, more isolated, and less destructive than the movies depicted. The rhedosaurus is from the movie The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. The Blood Banner Society is from Newman’s contributions (written as Jack Yeovil) to the novel series based on the miniature wargame Dark Futures. That game takes place in a universe that diverged from ours in 1960, so this must be the CU version of the Society. Box Brothers Bank is from Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the d’Urbervilles. Dr. Mabuse is from Norbert Jacques’ novels, as well as a series of films. Captain Geoffrey Jeperson is the adoptive father of Richard Jeperson, the title character of Newman’s collection The Man from the Diogenes Club. Haghi is from Fritz Lang’s film Spione. Olivia Gibberne is probably related to Professor Gibberne from H. G. Wells’ “The New Accelerator.” Dien Ch’ing is a CU version of the character from Newman’s Warhammer novel Beasts in Velvet, written under the Yeovil pseudonym. Winnerden Flats is from the British science fiction television serial Quatermass II. The Hydes of March are likely connected to Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Buggleskelly is from the movie Oh, Mr. Porter! The Duel of the Seven Stars refers to Newman’s serial novella Seven Stars. The Seven Stars themselves are originally from Bram Stoker’s The Jewel of Seven Stars. Ariadne is from Newman’s novel Bad Dreams. Hilda Courtney is from the movie Dressed to Kill, while Lydia Marlowe is from The Woman in Green; both films star Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. Anne Sercombe is British spy George Smiley’s wife in John le Carré’s spy novels, though there her first name is spelled “Ann.” Anne D’Arbanvilliers-Cleaver is possibly the sister of Richard “Clever Dick” Cleaver, the final member of the Splendid Six, whose aunt Rebecca D’Arbanvilliers appears in the Diogenes Club story “The Gypsies in the Wood.” Cassandra, Heather, and Priscilla Wilding are presumably related to Heather Wilding from Newman’s “The Serial Murders,” “Going to Series,” The Quorum, and “Cold Snap.” Susan Foreman is Doctor Who’s granddaughter. Alraune Ten Brincken is from Hanns Heinz Ewers’ Alraune. Vera Claythorne is from Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. Cunegonde Quive-Smith is likely related to Major Quive-Smith from the movie Man Hunt. Elva Kyle may be related to Selina Kyle, the original Batman’s foe (and later second wife) the Catwoman, who once used the alias “Elva Barr.” 

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! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2 by Win Scott Eckert!

Saturday, May 13, 2023

Crossover Movie Poster: The Mantrap

 

Are you a Sherlock Holmes fan?

Then you may enjoy this 1943 mystery film, featuring Sir Humphrey Quilp, a former student of Holmes and Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard!

For more info, be sure to read 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!

Friday, May 12, 2023

Crossover TV Episode: Rage

 

In this episode of the Kung Fu revival, Dennis Soong serves his fiancée Althea Shen a dinner that includes a vintage Belloq wine. In Raiders of the Lost Ark, René Belloq serves Marion Ravenwood wine from his family’s vineyards. The modern Kung Fu series is a re-imagining rather than a reboot of the original, set in the twenty-first century with completely original storylines, so there is no reason why its protagonist, Althea’s sister Nicky, could not exist in the same universe as Kwai Chang Caine.

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

Thursday, May 11, 2023

Crossover Covers: Zorro in the Land That Time Forgot

 






Are you a fan of Johnston McCulley's swashbuckling hero of Old California, Zorro?

Then you'll love this miniseries, in which the hero has an adventure in Edgar Rice Burroughs' land of Caspak!

For more information, check out 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!

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Crossover Cover: Like Count Palmieri

 

In this story by Anthony Boucher, private investigator Nick Noble must prevent the theft of a rare recording of Lena Geyer singing Rossini’s Cenicienta. Lena Geyer is the titular opera singer from Marcia Davenport’s novel Of Lena Geyer. Lena was also mentioned in Boucher’s Sherlock Holmes pastiche “The Anomaly of the Empty Man.”

This crossover is one of hundreds covered 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!

Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Crossover Cover: La Guerre du Pacifique n'Aura Pas Lieu

 

Are you a fan of Belgian author Jean Ray?

Then you'll love this novel by his friend Henri Vernes, which has a shout-out to one of his most famous works, Malpertuis!

For more information, see my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3! 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 and will be published by Meteor House!

Monday, May 8, 2023

Crossover Cover: Project Millipede

 

In May 1944, Atomic Robo’s sometime ally Sparrow, an agent of British Intelligence, must destroy a subterranean Nazi artillery cannon. At one point, a German seemingly shoots her, but she kills him. She explains her survival: “Latest from Q Branch. Bulletproof jacket.” Q Branch is from Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels.

This crossover, and hundreds more, are covered 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 Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Sunday, May 7, 2023

Crossover of the Week

Winter 1939

THE CASE OF THE PAINTED LADIES 

Anthony Bathurst investigates the murder of Stock Exchange operator Aubrey Coventry. Chief Inspector Andrew MacMorran says, “We may be on to something” to Bathurst, who replies, “If we go all Poirot and use our little grey cells—we shall be—undoubtedly.” Bathurst later remembers Holmes’ disparaging comments to Watson about Lecoq, and later still quotes to MacMorran Holmes’ statement about a person’s “brain-attic.” As part of his plan to trap the killer, he arranges to be a guest on a radio quiz show, along with three other detectives: Reginald Fortune, Colonel Anthony Ruthven Gethryn, and Philip Trent. 

1940 novel by Brian Flynn. Given the other crossovers, there is no reason why Bathurst’s reference to Poirot could not be to a real fellow sleuth. Holmes’ comments, including the one about Emile Gaboriau’s detective Monsieur Lecoq, are recorded in Doyle and Watson’s A Study in Scarlet. H. C. Bailey’s Reginald Fortune, Philip MacDonald’s Colonel Gethryn, and E. C. Bentley’s Philip Trent are all in the CU already.

This crossover writeup is one of hundreds found 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 Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2 by Win Scott Eckert!

Saturday, May 6, 2023

Crossover Cover: Kill Me in Tokyo

 

Are you a fan of Richard S. Prather's novels about private eye Shell Scott?

Then you'll love this novel, the first in Earl Norman's series about Japan-based P.I. Burns Bannion, which has a reference to Scott as a real person!

For more information, check out my 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 Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Friday, May 5, 2023

Crossover Cover: Basketful of Heads

 







In September 1983, four inmates from Shawshank Prison on a work detail escape. Shawshank Prison is from “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” and other works by write Joe Hill’s father Stephen King.
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 Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Thursday, May 4, 2023

Crossover Cover: Wings for the Dead

 

Are you a fan of Robert J. Hogan's G-8 novels?

Then you'll love this one, one of several stories where the flying spy meets his fellow aviator the Red Falcon!

For more information, consult my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by the swell folks at Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Crossover Movie Poster: Blood

 

In 1884, Dr. Lawrence Orlovsky and his wife Regina move from Budapest to a house in America. Regina needs blood to survive, so Lawrence and their servants inject her with extracts from a blood-drinking plant he’s growing. Lawrence has inherited the curse of lycanthropy from his father, Lawrence Talbot, while Regina is a vampire like her own father, Count Dracula. Later, Dr. Frankenstein buys the Orlovsky house. Given the 1884 date, this Lawrence Talbot can’t be the same one seen in The Wolf Man and other works, but since we know Larry isn’t the only werewolf in the family, he must be a relative. Regina might be the daughter of one of Dracula’s soul-clones rather than the true Lord of the Vampires. Dr. Frankenstein is another member of the lineage of monster makers.

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! And for those interested, here's a link to my review of the film!

Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Crossover Cover: Island of the Damned

 

Are you a fan of Men's Adventure novels?

Then you may enjoy this entry in Joseph Rosenberger's Death Merchant series, which contains a shout-out to Mark Roberts and Chet Cunningham's character the Penetrator!

For more details, check out my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House! As with its predecessors, this volume is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Monday, May 1, 2023

Crossover Cover: The Deeds of the Disturber

 

In 1896, Amelia Peabody and her husband Radcliffe Emerson investigate the case of a supposedly cursed mummy in the British Museum alongside Inspector Cuff, who plans to retire and grow roses like his eminent grandfather before him. Cuff's grandfather is Sergeant Cuff from Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone.

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!