Saturday, September 30, 2023

Crossover Cover: Night Fall

 

Are you a fan of Simon R. Green's books?

Then you may enjoy this finale for two of his series, the Secret Histories novels and the Nightside books, with plenty of connections to his other works and other fiction from various media!

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

Friday, September 29, 2023

Crossover TV Episode: Raga

 

This episode of Endeavour is set in June 1970. Chief Superintendent Bright mentions his service in Pankot and Chandrapore. Oxford’s Conservative candidate in the general election is Archibald-Lake. Ludo Talenti says cooking show host Oberon Prince is no Robert Danvers. The island of Vrakonisi is mentioned. Pankot is from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Bright’s service there was first mentioned in the episode “Prey.” Chandrapore is from E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India. Hugh Archibald-Lake is the Conservative candidate in The Wednesday Play episode “Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton,” a sequel to the earlier “Stand Up, Nigel Barton.” Robert Danvers is from Terence Frisby’s play There’s a Girl in My Soup. Vrakonisi is from Colonel Sun, the first-post Ian Fleming James Bond novel, written by Kingsley Amis as Robert Markham.  

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

Thursday, September 28, 2023

Crossover Cover: Avengelyne/Demonslayer: Angels of Mercy

 

Are you a fan of Rob Liefeld and Cathy Christian's comic book character Avengelyne?

Then you'll love this story teaming her with Marat Mychaels' character Demonslayer!

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

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Crossover Movie Poster: Revenge of the Zombies

 

Scott Warrington and his driver, Jeff Jackson, encounter Dr. Max Heinrich von Altermann, who is creating zombies for the Nazis. Jeff Jackson first appeared in the movie King of the Zombies, which was brought into the CU by Pete Rawlik’s story “The Ylourgne Accords.” 

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

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Crossover TV Episode: The Librarians and the Point of Salvation

 

Are you a fan of the TV series Leverage?

Then you'll love the shout-out to it in The Librarians episode "The Librarians and the Point of Salvation"!

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

Monday, September 25, 2023

Crossover Cover: Trilby

 

In this novel by George du Maurier, Miss Pinkerton’s Academy for Young Ladies, the Mall, Chiswick is mentioned. Trilby O’Ferrall is related to the Duchess of Towers. Miss Pinkerton’s Academy for Young Ladies is from William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair. Many if not all of Thackeray’s novels are connected by recurring characters and families. The Duchess of Towers is from du Maurier’s Peter Ibbetson

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! Much like the first two, this volume is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Sunday, September 24, 2023

Crossover of the Week

Summer 1935 

THE DOMINO LADY’S TRIPLE THREAT 

The Domino Lady battles a German American Bund targeting an old friend of her father. As Ellen Patrick, she meets two police detectives, one of whom is Chas Faraday. Last time Ellen stayed at the Waldorf-Anthony in New York, she met a strange and shadowy man named Kent, who saw a magician named Kosmo performing amazing feats with his cape while he (Kent) was serving in the court of the Czar. Later, Kent used a Baritsu move to save Ellen's life. Ellen meets two more cops, Sergeant Garcia and Patrolman Hawke, and reads an article in The Daily Sentinel. Detective Faraday tells Ellen he is thinking of leaving the Berkeley Police Department and has applied for police jobs in Neptune and Palm City. Patrolman Hawke tells Ellen stories about his aviator brother. 

Short story by Brad Mengel in Domino Lady Volume Two, Ron Fortier, ed., Airship 27 Productions, 2016. Chas Faraday is an ancestor of Michael Faraday, the protagonist of the TV series The Cape, which is set in Palm City. Kosmo is also from that series. The Waldorf-Anthony is the hotel owned by pulp hero Jim Anthony. Kent is the pulp hero of the shadows. Baritsu is a Japanese wrestling style from the Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of the Empty House.” The comic book story “The Conflagration Man,” a crossover between the shadowy vigilante and the bronze man, implied both heroes had learned Baritsu from Holmes. Philip José Farmer originally identified Holmes as one of Doc’s teachers in Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life. Baritsu was also mentioned in The Cape. Sergeant Garcia is a descendant of Sergeant Demetrio Lopez Garcia from Disney’s Zorro television series. Patrolman Hawke is the father of Matt Hawke, aka the Avenger, the hero of a series of Men’s Adventure paperbacks by Chet Cunningham. The Daily Sentinel is the Los Angeles edition of the Detroit newspaper published by Britt Reid, the Green Hornet. Neptune, California is the setting of the television series Veronica Mars. Patrolman Hawke’s aviator brother is the father of Stringfellow and St. John Hawke from the TV series Airwolf. This story takes place in summer, three years after the death of Ellen’s father, meaning 1935. 

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 Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Saturday, September 23, 2023

Crossover Movie Poster: A Few Good Men

 

Are you a Stephen King fan?

Then you may enjoy this film by Rob Reiner, which has an appearance by a book by the protagonist of King's novel Misery, which Reiner previously adapted!

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!

Friday, September 22, 2023

Crossover Cover: The Undercliffe Sentences

 

In Peter Cannon's story in this anthology, horror author Carl Dreadstone is the guest of honor at a fantasy convention in Brichester, England. Sauron is mentioned among Cthulhu Mythos deities such as Daoloth. Dreadstone recalls seeing Spinal Tap play in 1967. Carl Dreadstone was a “house name” under which several authors, including Ramsey Campbell, published adaptations of the classic Universal monster movies. Here, Dreadstone is a real person. Brichester is the setting of many of Campbell’s Cthulhu Mythos stories. Daoloth is also from Campbell’s Mythos fiction. Sauron is from J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. This story provides further proof that the legendary rock group Spinal Tap is in the CU.

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

Thursday, September 21, 2023

Crossover Cover: The Tall Texan

 

Are you a Western fan?

Then you'll love this entry in the Gunsmith series by "J. R. Roberts" (Robert J. Randisi), which has nods to not only two of Randisi's other series, but also the Canyon O'Grady books (written by various authors, including Randisi, under the penname Jon Sharpe) and the classic TV series The Wild Wild West!

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

Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Crossover Comic: The Secret of Monte Cristo

 

In this story in the British comic Knockout in 1949, an ex-crook brings Sexton Blake a parcel, and unknown parties kill the man and try to burgle the package from Blake’s safe. After an expert identifies the maker of the clockwork toy inside the box as the Count of Monte Cristo, Blake and Tinker foil another attempted theft, then go to Monte Cristo Island, where they meet the Count’s grandson, Edward Dantès, and his daughter Denise. Edward reveals the toy supposedly holds the secret to his grandfather’s treasure. The villain trying to get his own hands on the treasure turns out to be Edward’s half-brother Fernand. Edmond Dantès, the Count of Monte Cristo, is from Alexandre Dumas’ eponymous novel, which takes place in 1815-1838. Since Edward Dantès looks to be in at least his fifties and Blake and Tinker take a plane to Monte Cristo Island, this story likely takes place in the 1910s or 1920s. Presumably, Fernard Dantès was not named after his grandfather’s bitter rival Fernand Mondego. 

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!

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Crossover Cover: Geneva Force



Are you a fan of Men's Adventure novels?

Then you may enjoy this standalone novel by Joseph R. Rosenberger (which was originally supposed to be the first in a series), which has a reference to his character the Death Merchant!

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

Monday, September 18, 2023

Crossover Cover: The Old Bank House

 

In this novel by Angela Thirkell set in Anthony Trollope's fictional English county of Barsetshire, the Times runs correspondence about the need for a College of Empire Economics in Borrioboola-Gha, from Charles Dickens' Bleak House.

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

Sunday, September 17, 2023

Crossover of the Week

July 20, 1963

THE COLOR OUT IN SPACE 

American astronaut Magnolia Jones comes to Arkham, Northumberland in 1963 at the request of Human Protection League (HPL) agent and Women’s Royal Air Force member Mabel Peabody for a space mission to rescue Yuri Gagarin, who is being menaced by a member of the Colour Out of Space’s race. Also appearing or mentioned are: Tarooma; Dr. Maxwell Edison Gardner; Dirk McQuickly; the British Experimental Rocket Group; the Q-I, 1953; the M-76, 1956; the Q-II, 1958; Flasheart; Prof Q; Lonsdale College, Oxford; “tekeli-li!”; the magnetic anomalies in Tycho and Olduvai Gorge; Doktor Merkwürdigliebe; Zellaby; the Midwich changelings incident; an “Inventor”; Fendelman Industries; a ship from Mars that crashed to Earth under modern London five million years ago; Haven, Maine; Ivor Dare; Harriman Nelson; the “Saliva Tree Incursion” at Cottersall, Norfolk, England, in 1896; Gizhinsk; the SSRN Seaview; Captain Crane; and Peabody’s niece Jocelyn. 

Short story by Stephen Baxter in The Lovecraft Squad: Waiting, Pegasus Books, 2017. Magnolia Jones is an ancestor of the character of the same name (aka Melody Angel) from the television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, which takes place in a potential future for the CU. Tarooma and the Q-I are references to the British science fiction television serial The Quatermass Experiment. Dr. Bernard Quatermass is the head of the British Experimental Rocket Group. The Q-II and the ship from Mars that crashed to Earth under modern London five million years ago refer to Quatermass and the Pit. Dr. Maxwell Edison Gardner is Maxwell Edison from the Beatles’ song “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,” revealed here to be a descendant of Nahum Gardner from H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space.” Dirk McQuickly is the Paul McCartney stand-in in the Beatles parody the Rutles, first seen in the television series Rutland Weekend Television. The M-76 is from No Man Friday by Rex Gordon. Lord Flasheart is from the Blackadder Goes Forth episode “Private Plane.” Lonsdale College, Oxford is from the television series Inspector Morse, based on Colin Dexter’s novels. “Tekeli-li!” is a phrase from Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, later used by Lovecraft in “At the Mountains of Madness.” The magnetic anomalies in Tycho and the Olduvai Gorge are from Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, which must be an AU, although elements of it (or counterparts thereof) have been referenced in several CU works. Doktor Merkwürdigliebe is the original name of the title character of the movie Dr. Strangelove, which ends with all of humanity being wiped out in a nuclear conflagration. However, Emmanuel Gorlier’s “A Present for Hitler” establishes that Merkwürdigliebe has a CU counterpart. Gordon Zellaby, Midwich, the Inventor, and Gizhinsk are from John Wyndham’s The Midwich Cuckoos. Fendelman Industries is from the Doctor Who serial “Image of the Fendahl.” Haven, Maine is from Stephen King’s The Tommyknockers. Ivor Dare and Professor Jocelyn Mabel Peabody are from the British science fiction comic book Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future, which takes place in the then-future of the 1990s, in a world where travel to and from other worlds is common. These versions of Ivor and Jocelyn must be CU counterparts to the ones from the comic. Admiral Harriman Nelson, the SSRN Seaview, and Captain Lee Crane are from the TV series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, which was set in the then-future of the 1970s. These must be the CU versions of the characters and ship from the show. The Saliva Tree Incursion is from Brian Aldiss’ The Saliva Tree

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 Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Saturday, September 16, 2023

Crossover Cover: Kriminalissimo

 

Spy Alan Ford battles the skeleton-costumed master thief Kriminal.  Kriminal is already in the CU, so this crossover brings in Alan Ford. Both characters were created by Max Bunker and Magnus. 

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

Friday, September 15, 2023

Crossover Covers: The Curse of Quetzalcoatl

 






Are you a fan of the TV series Kung Fu?

Then you'll love the backup story running through these issues, in which the western hero the Phantom Rider encounters El Aguila, an ancestor of the modern Marvel hero of that name, with an allusion to Kwai Chang Caine along the way!

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

Thursday, September 14, 2023

Crossover TV Episode: Dark Shadows

 

In episode 944 of Dark Shadows, Jeb Hawkes, leader of the Leviathans, hears a werewolf howling, and recites a poem: “Even a man that’s pure of heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms, and the moon is full and bright.” The poem is a variation on the one first heard in the movie The Wolf Man. This version first appeared in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man. Megan Todd quotes the poem once again in Episode 961.

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! Like the first two, this volume is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Crossover Cover: Guilty as Hell

 

Are you a fan of Batton Lash's comic book Supernatural Law?

Then you'll love the story in this comic by Lash and Michael T. Gilbert that has its protagonists, Alanna Wolff and Jeff Byrd, encountering Gilbert's hero Mr. Monster!

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

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Crossover Movie Poster: Raising Arizona

 

H. I. McDunnough, who works at Hudsucker Industries, robs a convenience store whose alarm button bears the name Odegard-Trend Security. Hudsucker Industries would later be featured in the Coen Bros.’ film The Hudsucker Proxy, which is in the CU through a connection to Barton Fink. Odegard-Trend Security is from Sam Raimi’s film Crimewave, co-written by the Coens, which itself has a reference to Raimi’s film Evil Dead II

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!

Monday, September 11, 2023

Crossover Cover: The Starvel Hollow Tragedy

 

Are you a fan of Freeman Wills Crofts' Inspector French novels?

Then you'll love this book in the series, which has appearances by characters from Crofts' standalone novels The Ponson Case and The Pit-Prop Syndicate!

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

Sunday, September 10, 2023

Crossover of the Week

April 1923

THE HAUNTING OF DREARCLIFF GRANGE SCHOOL 

Drearcliff Grange School student Amy Thomsett, aka the Kentish Glory, and her fellow members of the Moth Club take part in the Great Game, an annual contest of skill between their school and others and must deal with the mysterious ghostly figure known as the Broken Doll. Appearing or mentioned are: Lucinda Tregellis-d’Aulney, aka the Aviatrix; Dr. Shade; Ariadne; Richard Cleaver, aka Clever Dick; the Diogenes Club; Janice Marsh; the Black Sow of Under-London; the Undertaking; Miss Violet “Fossil” Borrodale; Dennis Rattray, aka Blackfist; Maurice Wyvil; Moll Flanders; the Old Jago; Bert Stevens; Enoch Drebber; Lauriston Gardens; Jefferson Hope; Dr. Watson; the Splendid Six; Lord Piltdown; Jennifer God; Lord Leaves; Hans von Hellhund; Number 347, Piccadilly; Geoffrey Jeperson; Count DeVille; “Necro-nommi-con des Mortis”; Valmouth; the Hurstpierpoint Hotel; Sir Wilfrid Teazle; Mark Robarts’ A Counterblast to Agnosticism; Brichester; Colonel Clay; Sophy Kratides; Graustark; “a cove with either too many or too few names”; the Moriarty Mob; Sebastian Moran; Johnny Barlowe; the Opera Ghost Agency; Erik de Boscherville, aka the Phantom; Silver Blaze; Uncle Satt; Thomas Carnacki; the Mausoleum; the Royal North Surrey Regiment; Sir Boris de Bruin; the Department of Supplies; Sally Nikola’s dad; a Rolls-Royce ShadowShark; Colonel Zenf; Mr. John Bronze; the Angel Down Changeling; Queen Tera; the Mystic Maharajah; Lydia Marlowe; Anne Sercombe; Anne D’Arbanvilliers-Cleaver; Cassandra, Heather, and Priscilla Wilding; Thelma Guildmar; Giulietta Nefaria; Vera Claythorne; and Cunegonde Quive-Smith. 

Novel by Kim Newman, Titan Books, 2018. The Splendid Six, consisting of the Aviatrix, Clever Dick, Blackfist, Lord Piltdown, the Blue Streak, and the Mystic Maharajah, are from Newman’s Diogenes Club story “Clubland Heroes.” Hans von Hellhund is also from that story; an AU counterpart is mentioned in “Coastal City.” Dr. Shade is from Newman’s “The Original Dr. Shade.” Ariadne is from Newman’s Bad Dreams. The Diogenes Club and Sophy Kratides are from Doyle and Watson’s Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter.” Bert Stevens is from the Holmes story “The Adventure of the Norwood Builder.” Enoch Drebber, Lauriston Gardens, and Jefferson Hope are from Holmes’ first appearance, A Study in Scarlet. Colonel Sebastian Moran is Professor Moriarty’s lieutenant from “The Adventure of the Empty House.” Silver Blaze is from the Holmes tale “The Adventure of Silver Blaze.” The Undertaking is from the Diogenes Club stories “Angel Down, Sussex” and “Sorcerer Conjurer Wizard Witch.” The Angel Down Changeling is from the former story. The Mausoleum is from the latter story. Violet Borrodale is from Newman’s “Richard Riddle, Boy Detective in ‘The Case of the French Spy.’” Janice Marsh, a member of the Marsh family seen in H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow over Innsmouth,” is from Newman’s “The Big Fish” and “Another Fish Story.” The Black Sow of Under-London is the Beast of London from Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere. Maurice Wyvil is from William Harrison Ainsworth’s Old St. Paul's. Moll Flanders is the title character of Daniel Defoe’s novel. The Old Jago is from Arthur Morrison’s A Child of the Jago. “Jennifer God” is a reference to vampire Geneviève Dieudonné from the Diogenes Club stories, who also has a counterpart in the Anno Dracula Universe. Lord Leaves is from the Diogenes Club stories “Soho Golem" and “Cold Snap.” Number 347, Piccadilly was Dracula’s home in London in Bram Stoker’s novel. “Count DeVille” was the alias Dracula used to buy the house. Geoffrey Jeperson is the adoptive father of Richard Jeperson, a 1960s and 1970s agent of the Diogenes Club seen in Newman’s The Man from the Diogenes Club. Richard Jeperson drives a Rolls-Royce ShadowShark. “Necro-nommi-con des Mortis” is a reference to the Necronomicon Ex Mortis from the Evil Dead movies; the book appears under the variant name Necronomicon des Mortes in the Angel episode "Hell Bound." Valmouth is from Ronald Firbank’s novel of the same name. One of the characters in the book is Mrs. Eulalia Hurstpierpoint. Sir Wilfrid Teazle is an ancestor of Louise Magellan Teazle from Newman’s An English Ghost Story. Mark Robarts is from Anthony Trollope’s Framley Parsonage. A Counterblast to Agnosticism is from Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Brichester University is from Ramsey Campbell’s Cthulhu Mythos stories. Colonel Clay is from Grant Allen’s An African Millionaire. Graustark is a European kingdom in novels by George Barr McCutcheon. The “cove with either too many or too few names” is the Man with No Name from Sergio Leone’s films dubbed “the Dollars Trilogy”: A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Johnny Barlowe is from Ilya Surguchev and Frederick Albert Swan’s The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo. The Opera Ghost Agency is from Newman’s Angels of Music. Erik is from Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera. Uncle Satt and Sir Boris de Bruin are from the Diogenes Club story “The Gypsies in the Wood.” Thomas Carnacki is from William Hope Hodgson’s Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder. The Royal North Surrey Regiment is from A. E. W. Mason’s The Four Feathers. The Department of Supplies is from Newman’s Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the d’Urbervilles. Sally Nikola’s father is Guy Boothby’s villain Dr. Nikola. Colonel Zenf is from “Sorcerer Conjurer Wizard Witch” and “Cold Snap.” John Bronze is from Newman’s contributions to The Lovecraft Squad mosaic novel series, created by Stephen Jones. Queen Tera is from Stoker’s The Jewel of Seven Stars. Lydia Marlowe is from the Sherlock Holmes movie The Woman in Green. Anne (or Ann) Sercombe is the future wife of John le Carré’s spy George Smiley. Anne D’Arbanvilliers-Cleaver may be the sister of Clever Dick, whose aunt, Rebecca D’Arbanvilliers-Cleaver, appears in “The Gypsies in the Wood.” Cassandra, Heather, and Priscilla Wilding are likely related to Newman’s recurring character Heather Wilding. Thelma Guildmar is from the 1922 movie Thelma. Giulietta Nefaria, aka Whitney Frost, is better known as Madame Masque, a foe and onetime love interest of the Marvel Comics hero Iron Man. Vera Claythorne is from Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. Cunegonde Quive-Smith must be related to Major Quive-Smith from the movie Man Hunt

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, September 9, 2023

Crossover Movie Poster: Body Bags


One of the segments of this anthology TV movie co-directed by John Carpenter is "The Gas Station," in which a young female gas station employee has a run-in with a killer who escaped from a mental hospital in Haddonfield, Illinois. Haddonfield, Illinois is the setting of Carpenter’s film Halloween. Since the Halloween movies take place in the CU, so do the three stories in Body Bags, which take place in the same universe per the film’s bookends. 

This crossover is one of hundreds discussed 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!

Friday, September 8, 2023

Crossover Cover: Away with the Fairies

 

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

Then you'll love this book in Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher series, which has a nod to the Wimsey book Murder Must Advertise!

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

Thursday, September 7, 2023

Crossover TV Episode: Prelude

 

In this episode of Endeavour, Endeavour Morse investigates a case involving the Oxford Concert Orchestra and its leader, composer and conductor Sir Alexander Lermontov. Morse finds a bill from the Englischer Hof hotel in Meiringen, Switzerland. Carshall New Town and Burridge’s Department Store are mentioned.  Sir Alexander Lermontov is likely meant to be a relative of the equally controlling ballet owner Boris Lermontov from the film The Red Shoes. The Englischer Hof is from Doyle and Watson’s Sherlock Holmes tale “The Final Problem.” Carshall New Town is the setting of Angus Wilson’s Late Call. Burridge’s Department Store is from the movie Trouble in Store

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! Like its predecessors, this third volume is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Crossover Cover: Shi: Pandora's Box

 


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

Then you'll love this comic, in which an ancestor and predecessor of hers encounters another comic book "Bad Girl" who's already in the Crossover Universe, Pandora!

For more information, be sure to purchase a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! Much like 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!

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Crossover Cover: Lisey's Story

 

Appearing or mentioned are Castle Rock; Deep Cut Road; Gilead; “Bool! The end”; Derry; Michael Noonan; Dark Score Lake; Norris Ridgewick; Andy Clutterbuck; Kingdom; Tashmore Pond; Shooter’s Knob, Tennessee; Cleaves Mills; Harlow; Motton; and a Nite-Owl store. Castle Rock, Derry, Harlow, and Motton are recurring Maine towns in King’s fiction. Deep Cut Road is a CU version of the landmark from Dreamcatcher, which takes place in an AU. Gilead and the phrase “Bool! The end” are from the Dark Tower books, once again confirming Mid-World as an alternate reality to the CU. Michael Noonan and Dark Score Lake are from Bag of Bones. Norris Ridgewick is from The Dark Half, Needful Things, Gerald’s Game, and Bag of Bones. Andy Clutterbuck is from The Dark Half, Needful Things, and “It Grows on You.” Kingdom Hospital is from the television miniseries Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital. Tashmore Pond is from Firestarter. Shooter’s Knob, Tennessee is from “Secret Window, Secret Garden.” Cleaves Mills is from The Dead Zone. The Nite-Owl store is mentioned in a few of King’s works.

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

Monday, September 4, 2023

Crossover Cover: The Further Adventures of Ned Land

 

Are you a Jules Verne fan?

Then you'll love this anthology of stories featuring Ned Land, the Canadian harpooner from 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, which includes stories with connections to the Cthulhu Mythos, From the Earth to the Moon, the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Empty House," and Journey to the Center of the Earth!

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

Sunday, September 3, 2023

Crossover of the Week

Autumn 1939

THE GREEN LAMA: CRIMSON CIRCLE 

The Green Lama battles a scientific enclave called the Collective that threatens not only him, but his aides as well, and has recruited several of his former allies and enemies. Lt. John Caraway wonders where Rick Masters is when you need him. The Lama broke the central tenet of his faith when he murdered Karl Heydrich in R’lyeh. The Collective can confirm his work against the Medusa Council in 1935. An unpublished article by Betty Dale of the Herald-Tribune correctly postulates that the Lama is really Jethro Dumont. The hero tells Gary Brown and his wife Evangl Stewart-Brown about his battle with Cthulhu. The Collective is based in Black Rock. Morgue attendant Dan Rohn refers to the Tipton murders. When Dumont left America years ago, there were more pressing matters to deal with, such as whether Wentworth and Van Sloan would ever get married. Not too long before the Green Lama debuted, a predecessor of his encountered a killer matching the description of Collective member Omega. In a flashback, Evangl reminds herself to ask her friend Diane Elliott of the Amalgamated Press about the Lama’s battle with the Medusa Council, and Evangl’s mother says vigilantism “seems to be going around with the bat fellow and that doctor gentleman.” The Lama’s lover Jean Farrell remembers running from a shoggoth in R’lyeh. At the Herald-Tribune offices back in the present, Betty Dale talks to her fellow journalist Luke Jaconetti. Commissioner Woods has an impassioned conversation with former Commissioner turned Governor Kirkpatrick. Detective Crevier says, “When it comes to vigilantes, copycats are a dime a dozen. You remember how many guys we had running around with a black fedora and trenchcoat back in the day?” Dr. Barry Dale, a researcher on atomic energy and Betty’s brother, meets with the President to brief him on the Collective, and tells him the Intelligence Service Command has denied any knowledge of them. Nyarlathotep appears before the Collective. 

Novel by Adam Lance Garcia, Moonstone Books, 2015. The Green Lama is Kendell Foster Crossen’s pulp hero. Rick Masters had his own backup feature in Spark Publications’ Green Lama comic. R’lyeh, Cthulhu, the shoggoth, and Nyarlathotep are from H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. The Lama’s battle against the Medusa Council was seen in the anthology Day of the Destroyers, edited by Gary Phillips. The Intelligence Service Command is from the same book. Reporter Betty Dale is Secret Agent X’s girlfriend. Black Rock first appeared in Garcia’s story “The Black Rock Conspiracy,” included in the anthology The New Adventures of Foster Fade, the Crime Spectacularist. Fade appeared in stories by Lester Dent in All Detective Magazine. In “The Black Rock Conspiracy,” Fade battled an unnamed Omega. The Tipton Murders are a reference to Garcia’s other story from that anthology, “Dead Men’s Guns.” Wentworth and Van Sloan are Richard Wentworth, aka the Spider, and his beloved Nita Van Sloan. Governor (formerly Commissioner) Stanley Kirkpatrick is also from the Spider novels. Diane Elliott is Operator #5’s girlfriend. “The bat fellow” is the Black Bat, while “that doctor gentleman” is the pulp hero commonly known as “Doc.” Luke Jaconetti first appeared in “The Black Rock Conspiracy” before appearing in Garcia’s The Green Lama: Scions, as well as Day of the Destroyers. Detective Crevier is referring to the shadowy hero, the Spider, and possibly others. Barry Dale is the alter ego of another Spark Publications hero, Atoman, created by Crossen and Jerry Robinson. His appearance here foreshadows his future superhuman identity. 

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, September 2, 2023

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 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!

Friday, September 1, 2023

Crossover Cover: King of the Road

 

Are you a Kolchak: The Night Stalker fan?

Then you'll love this entry in R. S. Belcher's Brotherhood of the Wheel series, which has connections to not only that classic show, but also Belcher's Nightwise books, the Cthulhu Mythos, and The X-Files!

For more information, check out my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House! Just like the first two volumes, this one is an official and AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's invaluable tomes Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!