Crossover Cover: The Peaslee Papers

 

Are you a fan of the Halloween films?

Then you'll love this Cthulhu Mythos book by Peter Rawlik, which has ties to that series, as well as a number of other works!

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

Crossover Radio Episode: The Hollywood Story

 

New York City-based private eye Richard Diamond works a case on the coast, and says California has some good private eyes, such as Sam Spade and Pat Novak. Richard Diamond is already in the CU, and the references to Wold Newton Family member Sam Spade (from Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon and the radio series The Adventures of Sam Spade) and Pat Novak (from the radio show Pat Novak, for Hire) further cement his presence. 

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

Crossover of the Week

Winter 1925

THE CREEPING CRAWLERS OF CLAVERING 

Charles St. Cyprian, the Royal Occultist, and his assistant Ebe Gallowglass are summoned to Clavering Grange by Philip Wendy-Smythe. St. Cyprian carried his fair share of bags when he’d played batman for Carnacki. The Sign of Koth is marked on the billiards room door in jam. Wendy-Smythe has one of Vance’s monographs on elementals and has just completed the first English translation of The Book of Minor Grotesques. St. Cyprian says he’ll resolve matters in two shakes of a Shadmock’s tail and mentions the time a dog got into the Drones. He also traces the sign of Hloh in the air and takes the Voorish Sign out of a box decorated in Hyperborean iconography. The sound of rodents reminds Gallowglass of Exham Priory. 

Short story by Josh Reynolds in Shadmocks & Shivers: New Stories Inspired by the Stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Dave Brzeski, ed., Shadow Publishing, 2019. Clavering Grange is the setting of a series of books and stories by R. Chetwynd-Hayes. Thomas Carnacki is from William Hope Hodgson’s Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder. The Sign of Koth is from H. P. Lovecraft’s The Case of Charles Dexter Ward and “The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.” Vance is Alice and Claude Askew’s occult investigator Aylmer Vance. The Book of Minor Grotesques is a recurring tome in Reynolds’ fiction. The Shadmock is from Chetwynd-Hayes’ eponymous story in the linked collection The Monster Club. The Drones Club is from the works of P. G. Wodehouse. Hloh is from Margery Lawrence’s Miles Pennoyer stories. The Voorish Sign is from Lovecraft’s “The Dunwich Horror.” Hyperborea is from the fiction of Clark Ashton Smith. Exham Priory is from Lovecraft’s “The Rats in the Walls.” Since the Clavering Grange stories are in the CU, so are Chetwynd-Hayes’ tales of psychic detective Francis St. Clare and his sidekick Frederica Masters, who visited Clavering in “The Cringing Couple of Clavering.”

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

Crossover Cover: Sherlock Holmes: The Australian Casebook

 

The premise of this anthology is that Holmes and Watson spent several months in 1890, a year with supposedly little recorded data on Holmes’ cases, in Australia, originally to battle Guy Boothby's villain Dr. Nikola, but also solving several other cases along the way. Unfortunately, Baring-Gould placed no less than three cases in 1890, and too many crossover pastiches involving Holmes set in 1890 have been included in the CU for he and his Boswell to have spent more than a few days in Australia. Luckily, only two of the stories have crossovers. In Doug Elliott's "The Adventure of the Flash of Silver," Watson mentions the Nikola Formulae. In Christopher Sequeira's "The Dirranbandi Station Mystery," Holmes is hired to find a missing station hand. His client mentions bushrangers such as Captain Starlight, his colleague Warrigal, and Stingaree. Later, Holmes and Watson encounter Stingaree himself. Captain Starlight and Warrigal are from Rolf Boldrewood’s novel Robbery Under Arms. The Stingaree is from E. W. Hornung’s novel of the same name. 

These crossovers are two 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 Volume 1 and 2!

Crossover Comic: The Headless Horseman

 

Are you a fan of Washington Irving?

Then you'll love the Ibis the Invincible story in Whiz Comics #30, which pits the heroic magician against the Headless Horseman!

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

Crossover Movie Poster: Hatchet III

 

Amanda Perlman Fowler, a blogger and expert on urban legends, is killed by ghostly slasher Victor Crowley. Amanda Fowler is played by Caroline Williams, who has stated that Amanda is really Vanita “Stretch” Brock, her character from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, who changed her name and married and subsequently divorced Sheriff Louis Fowler. 

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

Crossover Cover: Past Prologue

 

Are you a fan of Steve Berry's Cotton Malone series?

Then you'll love this story, which has him crossing time to encounter Jamie Fraser from Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series!

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

Crossover TV Episode: The Librarians and the Heart of Darkness

 

The Heisserer Index of “mystery houses” includes the House on Haunted Hill (where a group of paranormal researchers died in madness and terror) and the Dionaea House. The House on Haunted Hill is from the movie of the same name. Two people died in the House in the movie, but no one went insane, nor were any of the people gathered at the House paranormal researchers, so this must have been a separate incident at the same house. Dionaea House was the subject of a viral internet story by screenwriter Eric Heisserer (after whom the Index was named) from 2004-2006. 

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

Crossover Cover: Athena Voltaire and the Sorcerer Pope

Are you a Casablanca fan?

Then you'll love this comic, which has ties not only to that classic film, but also to Talbot Mundy's The Nine Unknown and Citizen Kane!

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

Crossover of the Week

Spring 1876

SOUL OF THE EAST 

 The Lone Ranger and Tonto deliver some outlaws to Marshal Dave Bliss, who is grateful he listened to Marshal County and trusted them. One of the best witnesses against the outlaws was killed in a gunfight with Swifty Morgan. Bliss says Morgan is one of the fastest guns, along with Herod, Mortimer, Grimm, Hickok, Holliday, and the Ranger himself. The Ranger, Tonto, and an Asian man whose life they saved are confronted by Sheriff Amos Polk, who will soon be leaving his post to become a judge. The Japanese man, Sora Nagamasa, tells the Ranger his would-be killers’ client, Clive Cooper, is one of the junior partners of the Cooper-Tillman Company, an American trading firm based in China, who are treated as underlings by the most powerful company there, Struans. Nagamasa is really Sora Minamoto, spy and soldier for the Emperor of Japan, who usually works under the shortened version of his name, Moto. 

Short story by Frank Schildiner in The Lone Ranger and Tonto: Frontier Justice, Matthew Baugh, ed., Moonstone Books, 2018. Marshal Dave Bliss is from the movie Hang 'Em High. Marshal County is the father of the title character of the television series The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. Swifty Morgan is from the movie Support Your Local Gunfighter. John Herod is from the movie The Quick and the Dead. Colonel Douglas Mortimer is from the film For a Few Dollars More. Judge Amos Polk is from the TV movies The Over-the-Hill Gang and The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again. The Cooper-Tillman Company and Struan and Sons are from James Clavell’s Tai-Pan. Sora Minamoto is an ancestor of John P. Marquand’s Japanese spy Mr. Moto, who appears under the name Minamoto in Schildiner’s chapbook Watch Your Back, Mr. Minamoto.

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

Crossover Cover: Challenge

 

Bulldog Drummond and Ronald Standish investigate the murder of a colleague of theirs who was traveling to Newhaven by boat. This 1937 novel by “Sapper” (H. C. McNeile) marks the third and final crossover between Drummond and Standish. 

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

Crossover Cover: A Three Pie Problem

 

Are you a Sherlock Holmes fan?

Then you'll love Brad Mengel's story in this anthology, "A Three Pie Problem," which has references to British story paper detectives Sexton Blake and Nelson Lee, as well as Klimo from Guy Boothby's A Prince of Swindlers!

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

Crossover TV Episode: The Jackal Job

 

In this episode of Leverage: Redemption, the Leverage team tries to find a legendary con artist who now has Alzheimer’s called the Jackal’s greatest score before her abusive caregiver can. One of the Jackal’s cons was in Beaumont-sur-Mer. The Jackal and Beaumont-sur-Mer are from the 1988 movie Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. In the film, the Jackal's real name is Janet Colgate and she's played by Glenne Headly, but in “The Jackal Job,” her real name is Stella Voleur, and she's played by Joanna Cassidy. Since the first syllables of the name “Janet Colgate” are “Ja” and “Col” (Jackal), and “voleur” is French for thief, both are likely aliases. 

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

Crossover Cover: Claws of Satan

 

Are you a fan of Clayton Rawson's mysteries starring magician the Great Merlini?

Then you'll love one of the stories in this collection, "Claws of Satan," which has a shout-out to Merlini!

For more information, make sure you purchase a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! 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: Revenant Season

 

Blade, Frank Drake, and Hannibal King, now occult investigators, battle Hydra’s Department of Occult Armaments. In D.O.A.’s headquarters, an announcement is made over the P.A.: “Attention religious artifacts division–observe safety guidelines when opening Arks of the Covenant! Don’t look into the light–” Blade, Drake, and King first appeared in the Marvel series Tomb of Dracula. The reference to the Ark of the Covenant and not looking into the light is an allusion to Raiders of the Lost Ark. Given its many appearances in the CU, the Ark, like the Maltese Falcon, seems to change hands often.

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

Crossover Movie Poster: Speed

 

Are you a fan of the Die Hard movies?

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

For more details, 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 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

Spring 1966

THE REVELATION OF THE YETI 

In Africa, Doctor Omega asks Barton Werper if he’s ever been to Vulcan. Werper says their guide is Robert John Kilgore, aka Ki-Gor, and that his biographical subject is the most famous Jungle Lord, but there were earlier ones in India, such as Mowgli. The Doctor mistakenly refers to Ki-Gor as “John-Gor.” Ki-Gor describes Werper’s father, Lt. Werper of the Belgian Army, as almost as poor of an abuser of the native peoples of Africa as that ivory trader in the Congo. Accompanying them on their search for the Yeti is Nora the Ape-Woman. The Doctor recalls meeting two other animal-human hybrids, Paula Dupree and Felifax. Ki-Gor once found a lost Egyptian civilization called Memphre which some say is, like Opar or Kor, one of the lost colonies of Karkosa. Ki-Gor says some claim that vile cults lurk at their destination of a kind unseen since the days of Solomon Kane. Werper remembers some of the names of the beings presumably worshipped by these cults, such as Cthulhu, Azathoth, and Dagon, members of the Great Old Ones. Doctor Omega tells his traveling companions about the Tcho-Tcho. Nora heard about the Jermyn family in the Congo. Through a dimensional shift, they find themselves on the Plateau of Leng. Nora identifies some runes as written in Aklo. According to the Doctor the Yeti are called the Mi-Go on Pluto, where they serve Yog-Sothoth. Omega speculates that a door he sees is a spatial portal, an artifact of the Ancients. A quartet of sorcerers consists of Doctor Karswell; Madame Palmyre, who worships an entity called Baal; Cristaldi, a Mexican warlock who once fought Dracula; and the Master, who worships a god called Manos. The Doctor is puzzled on hearing the Master’s name. 

Short story by Atom Mudman Bezecny in Tales of the Shadowmen Volume 12: Carte Blanche, Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier, eds., Black Coat Press, 2015; reprinted in French in Les Compagnons de l’Ombre (Tome 22), Jean-Marc Lofficier, ed., Rivière Blanche, 2018. Doctor Omega is from Arnould Galopin’s titular novel; Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier’s adaptation and translation identified him with the Doctor from the television series Doctor Who. Vulcan is from the Doctor Who serial “The Power of the Daleks.” The Doctor’s archenemy is his fellow Time Lord the Master. “Barton Werper” was the nom de plume used by Peter and Peg Scott for a series of unauthorized Tarzan novels in the 1960s. Robert Kilgour (spelled “Kilgore” here), aka Ki-Gor, appeared in tales by John Murray Reynolds and various authors using the pen name “John Peter Drummond” in the pulp Jungle Stories. Memphre is from the Ki-Gor tales. Mowgli is from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. Jongor is the hero of a series of novels by Robert Moore Williams. Lt. Werper is from Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar. The ivory trader in the Congo is Kurtz from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Nora the Ape-Woman is the title character of Félicien Champsaur’s novel. Paula Dupree is from the movies Captive Wild Woman, Jungle Woman, and The Jungle Captive. Felifax is from Paul Féval, fils’ Felifax, the Tiger-Man. Kor is from H. Rider Haggard’s She novels. “Karkosa” is a reference to the kingdom of Khokarsa from Philip José Farmer’s novels of Ancient Opar. Farmer meant Khokarsa to be the same location described in Ambrose Bierce’s “An Inhabitant of Carcosa.” Solomon Kane is Robert E. Howard’s Puritan adventurer. The Great Old Ones, including Cthulhu, Azathoth, Dagon, and Yog-Sothoth, and the Plateau of Leng are from H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. The Tcho-Tcho are from August Derleth’s contributions to the Mythos. The Jermyns are from Lovecraft’s “Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family.” The Aklo language is from Arthur Machen’s “The White People”; Lovecraft later used it in “The Dunwich Horror” and “The Haunter of the Dark.” The Mi-Go are from Lovecraft’s “The Whisperer in Darkness.” Craig Hinton’s Millennial Rites identified the Great Intelligence from the Doctor Who serial “The Abominable Snowmen” with Yog-Sothoth. The Ancients are from the movie Stargate and its television spin-offs. Karswell is from M. R. James’ “Casting the Runes.” Madame Palmyre and Baal are from Renée Dunan’s Baal. Cristaldi is from the movie Santo and Blue Demon vs. Dracula and the Wolf Man. The Master (not the Doctor’s foe) and Manos are from the movie Manos: The Hands of Fate.  

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

Crossover Cover: Initials Only

 

Policeman Caleb Sweetwater investigates the mysterious death of a young heiress with the help of veteran cop Ebenezer Gryce. This 1911 novel by Anna Katharine Green teams up her two series detectives, Caleb Sweetwater and Ebenezer Gryce, who would meet again in the 1917 novel The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow. Since Gryce is in the CU, so is Sweetwater. 

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

Crossover Cover: Deep State

 

Are you a fan of the Friday the 13th films?

Then you'll love this novella in Christopher Farnsworth's The President's Vampire series, which has a reference to Crystal Lake, New Jersey, among other crossovers!

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

Crossover Cover: Designs of the Blood Eagle

Semi-Dual and his aides Gordon Glace and Jim Bryce battle a villain called the Blood Eagle, who is using a Hyde formula to remove inhibitions. Semi’s ally Hiwot says Robert Louis Stevenson’s account of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was based in fact. At Semi’s request, Gordon and Jim enlist the aid of Professor Xenophon Xerxes Zapt. Semi has been corresponding with a young explorer named Croft, who will soon attempt to reach Sirius, having sensed his soulmate calling to him. Occult detective Semi-Dual (or Prince Abdul Omar, to use his real name) appeared in tales by J. U. Giesy and Junius B. Smith in The Cavalier and Argosy All-Story Weekly from 1912-1934. Professor Xenophon Xerxes Zapt was the subject of four comedic stories by Giesy in All-Story Magazine and Weird Tales from 1915-1925. Croft is Jason Croft, the protagonist of Giesy's novels Palos of the Dog Star Pack, The Mouthpiece of Zitu, and Jason, Son of Jason. Semi-Dual and Mr. Hyde are in the CU, so this novel brings in Professor Zapt and Jason Croft.

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

Crossover Cover: Fated

 

Are you a fan of Jim Butcher's series The Dresden Files?

Then you'll love the first novel in Benedict Jacka's Alex Verus series, which has a shout-out to Harry Dresden!

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

Crossover Cover: Through Mirrors Darkly

 

The barbarian-king Rogan and the ex-Amish magus Levi Stoltzfus have very similar adventures separated by millennia. Rogan says Kharrn would have helped him, but he was arrested. Rogan was cocreated by Keene and Steven L. Shrewsbury. Levi Stoltzfus is a recurring character of Keene’s. The immortal barbarian Kharrn is from Charles R. Rutledge’s fiction. 

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

Crossover Covers: Going Underground

 

Are you a Doctor Who fan?

Then you'll love "Going Underground," the first storyline of Gordon Rennie and Dom Reardon's comic Caballistics, Inc., which references not only that show, but also the Quatermass serials and the Cthulhu Mythos!

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 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

Spring 2008

NEKROPOLIS 

Ex-Cleveland policeman Matthew Richter is now a zombie P.I. in Nekropolis, a city founded centuries ago by wizards and monsters within a pocket dimension of eternal night where monsters live openly. Appearing or mentioned are Carl; Erich Zann; a Gill-Man; the Transparent Woman; the Mariner; Dr. Moreau; the Phantom of the Paradise; Victor Baron; a female descendant of Dr. Jekyll who uses a version of her forebear’s formula to change genders; and Marley’s ghost. 

2009 novel by Tim Waggoner. Carl is Carl Kolchak, who now runs a newspaper in Nekropolis. Erich Zann is from H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Music of Erich Zann.” The Gill-Men are from the movie Creature from the Black Lagoon and its sequels. The Transparent Woman is a descendant of H. G. Wells’ Invisible Man who botched her ancestor’s formula so that only her skin turned invisible, not her organs and skeleton. The Mariner is from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Dr. Moreau is either the doctor from H. G. Wells’ novel or a descendant. The Phantom of the Paradise is from the movie of the same name. Victor Baron is one of the monsters created by the Frankenstein family, now living in the Nekropolis and carrying on his creator’s work. Dr. Jekyll needs no introduction. Jacob Marley’s ghost is from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Nekropolis is similar to the Nightside, from Simon R. Green’s series of novels, but the relationship between the two has yet to be revealed. 

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

Crossover Cover: What Happened at Hazelwood

Inspector Cadover investigates the murder of Sir George Simney. Inspector Appleby is mentioned several times. Innes’ series character Sir John Appleby is solidly in the CU already. Cadover reappeared in The Journeying Boy, which also contained references to Appleby, and then actually met Sir John in A Private View and “The Key.”

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

Crossover TV Episode: Passions

 

Are you a Dark Shadows fan?

Then you'll love the January 15, 2004 episode of the soap opera Passions, which has a line confirming the two series take place in the same universe!

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

Crossover Covers: The Blood of Carthage

 

A portrait of Hellboy hangs in Giles’ apartment. The painting of Hellboy, seen in #23, provides further proof a version of Hellboy exists in the CU, although not all his solo exploits or crossovers with other characters can be included. 

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! 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 Movie Poster: Reefer Madness

 

Are you a fan of exploitation movies?

Then you'll love this infamous film, which has nods to both Dick Tracy and the James Cagney movie Something to Sing About!

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

Crossover Cover: Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju

 

Today is my birthday, so to celebrate, I’m doing something special, by posting an excerpt from Appendix 1 of the new book, “The Anno Dracula Universe and Character Guide.” Enjoy!

Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju (Titan Books, 2019)

• Richard Jeperson is from Newman’s The Man from the Diogenes Club

• Christina Light (Roderick Hudson and The Princess Casamassima by Henry James)

• Cham-Cham and Mima are from the movie Perfect Blue

• Sprünt is from the TV series Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge

• Yōkai (monsters from Japanese legend)

• Hyakume (yōkai)

• Triffids (The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham)

• Voltan (Jack Palance, Hawk the Slayer)

• The Chatsubo Bar (Neuromancer by William Gibson)

• Dr. Jogoro Komoda (Tatsumi Hijikata, Horrors of Malformed Men)

• Merkwerdichliebe (Dr. Merkwürdigliebe, aka Dr. Strangelove; Peter Sellers, Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)

• Kate Reed

• Geneviève Dieudonné

• The Macedonia (The Sea-Wolf by Jack London)

• Sunway Systems is from the movie Cypher 

• Syrie Van Epp (Elizabeth Shepherd, The Corridor People)

• Wings Over the World is from the movie Things to Come

• Groover’s is from the movie Au Pair Girls 

• Millarca is the title character of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla”

• The Daikaiju Building is in the shape of Gojira, aka Godzilla 

• The Monk (vampire and early foe of Batman)

• Taguchi (Kenji Mizuhashi, Pulse)

• Ishikawa (Shutaro Ishikawa; Ken Ogata, My Soul Is Slashed)

• Karl the Chiropterid is meant to be Karl Fei-Ong from the anime Blood+

• John Blaylock (David Bowie, The Hunger)

• Mycroft Holmes

• Caleb Croft (Michael Pataki, Grave of the Vampire)

• Lord Ruthven (“The Vampyre” by John Polidori)

• Drearcliff Grange is from Newman's Drearcliff Grange School series

• Yuki-Onna (yōkai; also played by Keiko Kishi in the movie Kwaidan)

• Detective Yoshitaka Azuma is a combination of Detective Azuma from Violent Cop with Detective Yoshitaka Nishi from Hana-Bi, both played by Takeshi Kitano

• Jiiji the Pimp (Shinya Tsukamoto, Ichi the Killer)

• Captain Takeda (Shun Sugata, Confessions of a Dog)

• Tenjo Kudari (yōkai)

• Officer Kamikura (Ichigo Kamikura; Osamu Mukai, S: The Last Policeman)

• The Sakis are from the Sukeban Deka film series

• Urufu Inugami (Akira Inugami; Wolf Guy by Kazumasa Hirai and Hisashi Sakaguchi)

• Big Thinks is from Newman’s Diogenes Club story “Tomorrow Town”

• WOTAN is from the Doctor Who serial “The War Machines”

• The General is from The Prisoner episode of the same name

• REMAK is from The Avengers episode “Killer”

• Gargantuabots are from Newman’s story “Gargantuabots vs. the Nice Mice”

• Erzulie Bronze is the daughter of Nefertiti Bronze from Newman’s contributions to The Lovecraft Squad mosaic novel series

• The Trenchcoat Twosome (the Trenchcoat Twins, played by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley video series)

• The Bowmans is from the titular Hancock episode

• Six-tentacled octopus by the Golden Gate Bridge (It Came from Beneath the Sea)

• Giant ape above the Bullring (King Kong)

• Flimsy-winged reptile tethered in the Tivoli Gardens (Reptilicus)

• The vampire killed by electricity in the Arctic Circle in 1951 is a reference to the movie The Thing from Another World 

• Lefty is the titular appendage from The Outer Limits episode “Demon with a Glass Hand,” written by Harlan Ellison

• The Starship Protector, Dr. Lazarus, and Galaxy Quest are from the movie Galaxy Quest

• The Eyeheads are from Naoki Urasawa’s manga 20th Century Boys 

• Unwin-Fujikawa Chemicals is derived from Unwin Chemicals in Newman’s novel Bad Dreams 

• Mr. Horowitz, aka Mr. Horror and Iron Mouth (Jaws; Richard Kiel, The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker; the character was based on Sol “Horror” Horowitz from Ian Fleming's original novel The Spy Who Loved Me)

• Dr. Kiyokazu Akiba (Kōichi Satō, Infection)

• General Gokemidoro is from the movie Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell

• The Uchoten Hotel is from the movie of the same name, as are Tokiko (Keiko Toda) and Zenbu (Toshiyuki Nishida)

• Colonel Golgotha is the title character of Takao Saito's manga Golgo 13

• Derek (Peter Jackson, Bad Taste)

• O-Ren Blake, aka Cottonmouth, is a conflation of O-Ren “Cottonmouth” Ishii from Kill Bill: Vol. 1 with Sadie Blake from Rise: Blood Hunter; Lucy Liu played both characters

• Killer (Light “Kira” Yagami; Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata)

• Furīman (Crying Freeman by Kazuo Koike and Ryoichi Ikegami)

• Panty-Mask (Ryôhei Suzuki, Hentai Kamen and Hentai Kamen: The Abnormal Crisis)

• Mikaeris, aka the Butler (Sebastian Michaelis; Black Butler by Yana Toboso)

• Kurokawa, aka Caterpillar (“The Caterpillar” by Edogawa Rampo)

• Mizuno, aka Astro-Man (Yoshio Tsuchiya, The Human Vapor)

• Hanjuro, the Black Ninja (David Chung, Ninja III: The Domination)

• Simon Molinar (Jason Carter, Demon Under Glass)

• Brilliant-Smith (Dick Tracy by Chester Gould)

• Dr. Septimus Pretorius (Ernest Thesiger, Bride of Frankenstein)

• Henry Jekyll (Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson)

• Senator John Blutarski (John Belushi, National Lampoon’s Animal House)

• Don Sebastian de Villanueva (vampire in novels by Les Daniels)

• Xochitl (Rosa Arenas, The Aztec Mummy, The Curse of the Aztec Mummy, and The Aztec Mummy Against the Humanoid Robot)

• Mitsuru Fujiwara (Ghost Talker’s Daydream by Saki Okuse and Sankichi Meguro)

• The Opera Ghost Agency is from Newman’s Angels of Music

• The Unnameables are from Newman’s stories “The Big Fish” and “Moon Moon Moon”

• Germany’s Lohmann Branch is named after Inspector Karl Lohmann, played by Otto Wernicke in M and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 

• Russia’s Night Watch (World of Watches series by Sergei Lukyanenko)

• Kogorō Akechi, the Boy Detectives Club, the Fiend with Twenty Faces, and the Black Lizard from Edogawa Rampo’s mystery novels

• Giant vampire turtle (Gamera)

• Kaname Kuran (Vampire Knight by Matsuri Hino)

• Subaru Sumiyagi (Subaru Sumeragi; Tokyo Babylon by Clamp)

• Kyoichi Kagenuma (Ryuhei Matsuda, Nightmare Detective and Nightmare Detective 2)

• Professor Brian O’Blivion (Jack Creley, Videodrome)

• Higo Yanagi (yōkai)

• Albert “Smiler” Watson is a conflation of the title character of the Sergeant Cork episode “The Case of Albert Watson, V.C.” with Smiler Washington from the TV movie Chips with Everything, both played by Ronald Lacey

• Kuchisake (yōkai)

• Rider Kuuga (Joe Odagiri, Kamen Rider Kuuga)

• Suzan Arashi is based on Susan Storm, aka the Invisible Girl, of the Marvel superteam the Fantastic Four

• Commander Hamish Bond (James Bond)

• Cousin Helen (Helen “Hallie” Takahama, aka Jolt, member of the Marvel superhero team the Thunderbolts)

• Tsunako Shiki (Sunako Kirishiki; Shiki by Fuyumi Ono)

• Cthulhu, Dagon, and Azathoth are from H. P. Lovecraft’s Mythos

• Lady Asaji Washizu (Isuzu Yamada) and Spider Forest are from the movie Throne of Blood

• Fray Sebastian and Kichijiro (Silence by Shūsaku Endō)

• O-Same (yōkai)

• Higanjima Island (Higanjima by Kōji Matsumoto)

• Heike Ziss is from Newman’s Drearcliff Grange School books

• Charlotte (Jennifer Ulrich, We Are the Night)

• Callie (Callie Webb; Parker Posey, For Your Consideration)

• Jennifer Jolie (Parker Posey, Scream 3)

• The movie The Hobbs End Horror is based on Sutter Cane’s novel of the same name in the movie In the Mouth of Madness

• Derek Leech (recurring evil media mogul in Newman’s work)

• The Broken Doll and Carleton Knowles are from The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School

• Olof Carlsen (The Space Vampires by Colin Wilson)

• Louise Teazle is from Newman’s novel An English Ghost Story

• Anthony Peak is an alias for the title character of the manga Lupin the Third by Monkey Punch

• Andrew A. Thomason is based on Thomas A. Anderson, aka Neo, Keanu Reeves’ character in the movie The Matrix and its sequels

• The Niide Clinic is named after Dr. Kyojō Niide, Toshiro Mifune’s character in Red Beard

• Tetch (Jervis Tetch, aka the Mad Hatter, one of Batman’s foes)

• Middle-aged, sad-faced American actor and younger woman with pink-tinged hair (Bob Harris and Charlotte; Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson, Lost in Translation)

• Takashi Kamata, aka DK (Brian Tee, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift)

• Kageyama (Akira Kageyama; Hayato Ichihara, Yakuza Apocalypse)

• Sergeant Kankichi (Ryotsu Kankichi; Kochikame by Osamu Akimoto)

• Officer Ota (Isao Ota; Patlabor by Masami Yuki)

• Officer Brenten and the puma girls (Charles Brenten, AnnaPuma, and UniPuma; Dominion by Masamune Shirow)

• Officer Nakajima (Ken Nakajima; You’re Under Arrest by Kōsuke Fujishima)

• Lady Oyotsu (yōkai)

• Charles Strickland (The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham)

• Asato Yamamura is a combination of Ai Asato from Kochikame with Sadako Yamamura from the Ring novel series by Koji Suzuki

• Sophie Fukami is from the anime Kado: The Right Answer 

• Dessert is from the movie Suicide Club 

• The Bronx Warriors are from the movie 1990: The Bronx Warriors

• The Baseball Furies are from the movie The Warriors

• de Boscherville (Erik the Opera Ghost; The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux)

• Anck-es-en-Amon (Zita Johann, The Mummy)

• Petrox Oil is from the 1976 remake of King Kong 

• The North Sea Jennifer disaster refers to the movie North Sea Hijack

• Sonja Blaue (Sonja Blue, monster-hunting vampire in novels by Nancy A. Collins)

• Oily Maniac Hair Tonic is named after the movie Oily Maniac 

• The Moth (Mothra, Japanese movie monster)

• The Pterror (Rodan, another cinematic monster)

• The Tri-Kappa (King Ghidorah, still another Japanese cinema monster)

• The Ferat automobile company is from the Czech film Ferat Vampire 

• Rex Mifune is better known as Racer X from the anime Speed Racer 

• Furano, the Frankenstein Girl (Keiko Furano; Eri Otoguro, Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl)

• Varanit Gorasu, the Indescribable Man, evokes the films Varan the Unbelievable and Gorath

• Aki Nijūhachi-gō is the title character of Katsuhiro Otomo’s manga Akira 

• Bokonism (Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut)

• Asa Vajda (Barbara Steele, Black Sunday)

• Herbert von Krolock (Iain Quarrier, Dance of the Vampires)

• Lester Shortlion (Lestat de Lioncourt; The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice)

• Angel de la Guardia (Ron Perlman, Cronos)

• Georgia Rae Drumgo, a conflation of Georgia Rae Mahoney from the television series Homicide: Life on the Street and Evelda Drumgo from the movie Hannibal, both played by Hazellle Goodman 

• Abura Sumashi (yōkai)

• Kasa-obake (yōkai)

• Perkin Murdleigh is based on Muttley from the cartoon Wacky Races 

• Mr. Omochi (Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb)

• Chesse Beru (Chesse Belle; Seraph of the End by Takaya Kagami and Yamato Yamamoto)

• Tsukamoto is meant to be the unnamed metal fetishist played by Shinya Tsukamoto in his film Tetsuo: The Iron Man

• The predator vampire that permanently shapeshifted into a lift in Amsterdam in the 1980s is a reference to the Dutch film De Lift

• Count Oblensky (Waldemar Wohlfahrt, The Horrible Sexy Vampire)

• Kah Pai Mei is a conflation of Kah from the movie The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires with Pai Mei from Chinese legend and film

• Sesshō Seki (yōkai)

• General Ichimonji (Hidetora Ichimonji; Tatsuya Nakadai, Ran)

• Mowgli of Seoni (The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling)

• The Blue Water Pendant is from the anime Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water; the Nemo Collection refers to Captain Nemo, who besides being from Jules Verne’s novels also appears in that series

• Munch’s Lady of the Shroud is named after Bram Stoker’s novel

• The Mausoleum is from Newman’s “Sorcerer Conjurer Wizard Witch”

• Wingman Paul Metcalf is better known as Captain Scarlet from the TV series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons; the Seraphs are based on the Angels from that series

• Wing Navigator Hayata (Shin Hayata; Susumu Kurobe, Ultraman)

• Dr. Devilers (Alain Delon, Shock Treatment [1973 film])

• Drusilla Zark (Juliet Landau, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel; the surname is derived from Juliet’s father Martin Landau’s villain in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode “The Bat Cave Affair”) 

• The Silver Sentinel is based on Klaatu’s flying saucer in the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still 

• The EvangeLions are named after the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion

• Wing Captain Gardner (Grant Gardner, aka Captain America; Dick Purcell, Captain America [1943 serial])

• The Loren Mansion is from the movie House on Haunted Hill 

• Kostaki (“The Pale-Faced Lady” by Alexandre Dumas)

• The Daughter of the Dragon (Fah Lo Suee, Dr. Fu Manchu’s daughter)

• The Ska-tastics are from the Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated episode “Dance of the Undead”

• Skerra Island is from Newman’s Diogenes Club story “Swellhead”

• An attractive archaeologist (Lara Croft, Tomb Raider)

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!