Crossover Cover: Phileas Fogg and the Heart of Osra

 

Are you a Jules Verne fan?

Then you'll love this novella, Joshua M. Reynolds' second follow-up to Philip Jose Farmer's The Other Log of Phileas Fogg, in which Fogg has an adventure in the kingdom of Ruritania from Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda, Rupert of Hentzau, and The Heart of Princess Osra!

For more information, including coverage of the other crossovers in the book, 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 Covers: Le Pilote Sans Visage/Jari Dans la Tourmente

Race car driver Michel Vaillant meets Jari Lorrain at a tennis tournament where Jari’s guardian, pro Jimmy Torrent, is competing. This meeting is shown from Jari’s point of view in Raymond Reding’s “Jari dans la tourmente” in Le Journal de Tintin in 1958, and from Michel Vaillant’s point of view in “Le Pilote sans visage” by Jean Graton in the same magazine in 1959. The latter was reprinted as a standalone album in 1960. Graton’s comic Michel Vaillant is in the CU through Derrick Ferguson’s “Dillon and the Judas Chalice,” so Reding’s Jari is also in. 

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: Quello Che Non T'Aspetti

 

Are you an Italian comic fan?

Then you'll love this story, which teams the antiheroes Kriminal and Satanik, both created by Max Bunker and Magnus!

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 Movie Poster: The Hudsucker Proxy

Karl Mundt narrates a newsreel about Hudsucker Industries. Karl “Madman” Mundt is from the Coen Brothers’ film Barton Fink, which is in the CU through a connection to The Big Lebowski.

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

Summer 1888

THE CASE OF MRS. NORTON 

The former Irene Adler hires Erik’s Opera Ghost Agency (whose current operatives are Ayda Heidari, Ysabel de Ferre, and Hagar Stanley) to determine whether her husband Godfrey Norton is the good man he appears. Appearing or mentioned are the Persian; the Countess de Cagliostro; Liddle, Neal, & Liddle; the King of Bohemia; A. J. Raffles; Professor Moriarty; Sherlock Holmes; Trilby; Coppélius; Spallanzani; Olympia; Irma Vep; Les Vampires; La Marmoset; and Mr. Calhoun. 

Story by Kim Newman in Angels of Music, Titan Books, 2016. Erik and the Persian are from Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera. Irene Adler, her husband Godfrey Norton, and the King of Bohemia are from Doyle and Watson’s Sherlock Holmes tale “A Scandal in Bohemia.” Ayda Heidari is the future wife of Bob Ferguson from “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire.” Professor Moriarty is Holmes’ greatest foe. Ysabel de Ferre is a foe of detective Sexton Blake. Hagar Stanley is from Fergus Hume’s Hagar of the Pawn-Shop. Josephine Balsamo, the Countess of Cagliostro, is the archenemy of Maurice Leblanc’s gentleman burglar Arsène Lupin. Liddle, Neal, & Liddle is from Arthur Morrison’s Martin Hewitt story “The Case of Laker, Absconded.” A. J. Raffles is E. W. Hornung’s amateur cracksman. Trilby O’Ferrall is from George du Maurier’s Trilby. Coppélius, Spallanzani, and Olympia are from Jacques Offenbach’s opera Tales of Hoffmann. Irma Vep and Les Vampires are from Louis Feuillade’s silent film serial named for the latter. La Marmoset and Mr. Calhoun are from Albert W. Aiken’s “La Marmoset, the Detective Queen; or, The Lost Heir of Morel.” 

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 TV Episode: Zenana

 

Are you a fan of the classic Universal monster movies?

Then you'll love this episode of Endeavour, which has a nod to The Wolf Man, as well as Charles Dickens' Bleak House!

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 Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

My first short story!

My contributor copy of the anthology containing my first published fiction has arrived, and I could not be more delighted! Six more days until it hits the streets! And yes, of course I wrote up my own story for Crossovers Expanded Volume 3. :)

Crossover Cover: Demon Weather

 

The Portuguese sea-captain Luis da Silva battles Francisco Batista, a sorcerer with a grudge against him. Batista thinks of others who created artificial men: Paracelsus, Roger Bacon, the Qabbalists, Albertus Magnus, and Victor Frankenstein. Reference is made to da Silva meeting Arkright. Since the other creators of artificial men who Batista thinks of are all historical figures, Victor Frankenstein must be as well. Da Silva met Arkright (from William Hope Hodgson’s Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder) in Kidd’s story “Arkright’s Tale.”

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: Money from Holme

 

Are you a fan of mystery author Michael Innes?

Then you'll love this standalone novel by him, which has a character who also appears in his Sir John Appleby 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 Cover: Athena Voltaire Pulp Tales

 

Steve Bryant's comics about 1930s adventurer and aviatrix Athena Voltaire are already solidly in the CU. This anthology of prose stories featuring the character has three tales with crossovers. 

In Mike Oliveri's "Just a Quick Pick Up," Athena is hired by a wealthy man to retrieve something important to him from a remote coastal town. Both Athena’s client and the townsfolk have amphibious features. At the end of this adventure, Athena vows not to return to Innsmouth anytime soon. Of course, this is a nod to Lovecraft's "The Shadow over Innsmouth." 

In Bryant's own story, "The Plot Twist Peril," Athena tells Harry Warner about some of her past exploits that he might be able to use as the basis for a film. One such tale has Athena battling the Pirate Queen and her Malay cutthroats off the coast of Burma over an artifact called the Helm of Nabu, the mystical helmet worn by DC Comics’ hero Doctor Fate. 

In Dirk Manning's "Weltschmerz (or "Athena Voltaire and the God of Flesh and Bone)," Athena, viewing a god summoned by Nazis, is sure he is not an Elder God, one of which she has half-memories of seeing during an exploit involving the disappearance of a young, rich woman in a fishing village the name of which she cannot remember. The Elder Gods are from the Cthulhu Mythos. The fishing village is presumably Innsmouth, meaning Athena did not keep her vow never to go there again.

These crossovers are three 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: Dead Do Dance

 

Are you a pulp fan?

Then you'll love my friend Frank Schildiner's story in this anthology, "Dead Do Dance," in which Secret Agent X battles Murder Legendre from the classic horror film White Zombie, with other crossovers 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!

Crossover Cover: Nightblood

 

A vampire entombed beneath Isherwood, Indiana for 75 years is released, and begins creating its own vampire army from the townsfolk. Wandering monster hunter and Vietnam veteran Chris Stiles steps in to end the menace. Stiles has fought vampires in New Orleans, California, and Maine. Grady Hendrix’s introduction to the 2019 Valancourt Books edition explains the sources of these references. The New Orleans reference is an allusion to Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles. The California reference evokes Robert R. McCammon’s They Thirst. Maine refers to Stephen King’s ’Salem’s Lot.

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

February-March 1946

TOIL AND TROUBLE 

The Avenger and the Domino Lady once again battle the Iron Skull, who is now allied with the mysterious Dr. Karl Walden. Rosabel Newton’s father is taking care of her and Josh’s twins. The Iron Skull plans to infiltrate the recently formed U.N. security force, the global law enforcement organization, replacing its leaders and agents with his robots. Lenni Blau-Montag, the Skull’s daughter, says Dr. Sprechen and the others at a so-called hospital in Montreal merely ignited Benson’s peculiar condition (his malleable flesh), which was already inside him. Walden provided the Iron Skull and Lenni with samples of polymorphic flesh like those of his companion, Countess Lilya Zarov. Cole Wilson asks Benson if he can imagine someone else using the Iron Skull’s technology to create an army of “fem-bots” resembling the Domino Lady, placed strategically to seduce world leaders. Benson says Walden is, perhaps other than Sun Koh, the most dangerous adversary Justice, Inc. has ever faced. 

Part V of Hunt the Avenger by Win Scott Eckert, Moonstone Books, 2019. The Domino Lady is Lars Anderson’s pulp heroine. Dr. Karl Walden and Countess Lilya Zarov are meant to be Baron von Hessel and Countess Lili Bugov from Philip José Farmer’s official prequel to the Doc Savage series, Escape from Loki. The name Zarov suggests the Countess is related to General Zaroff from Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game.” Rosabel’s father is Julius, Katherine Maxwell Harvard’s servant in Varick Vanardy’s Night Wind novels, as established in Christopher R. Yates’ Behold the Night Wind. The recently formed U.N. security force is the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement, or U.N.C.L.E. for short. Dr. Sprechen’s role in Benson’s origin was revealed in the comic book miniseries Justice, Inc.: Faces of Justice by Kyle Higgins, Joe Gentile, and Alex Shibao. Cole’s musings suggest the Fembots created by British spy Austin Powers’ archenemy Dr. Evil were based on the Iron Skull’s technology. Sun Koh is a German pulp character created by Paul Alfred Müller. Benson and Justice, Inc. battled him in Matthew Baugh’s The Sun King and “The Curse of Kukulkan.” 

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: A Touch of Fever

 

Are you a fan of the TV series Warehouse 13?

Then you'll love this tie-in novel, which has nods to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, W. W. Jacobs' "The Monkey's Paw," Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, Meredith Willson's musical The Music Man, and Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera!

For more details, 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: The Case of the Black Twenty-Two

 

Private detective Anthony Bathurst investigates the theft of three valuable items once belonging to Mary, Queen of Scots, and the murders of both a night watchman at the auction house where they were up for bid and one of the bidders, Laurence P. Stewart. Peter Daventry is asked by his law partner, Linnell, to find a private investigator: “Can’t you do a bit of ‘sleuthing’ on your own account? Sherlock Holmes has had many imitators!” Bathurst tells Inspector Goodall, “Sherlock Holmes has laid it down, Inspector, that in moments of sudden alarm and anxiety, a single woman rushes for her jewel case—a married woman for her baby.” Daventry tells Bathurst, “I know in cases of this kind the Doctor Watson of the business is always a thick-headed sort of arrangement, and I don’t suppose I’m any more brilliant than the majority.” One of the items in Stewart’s collection is “The ancient Crown of the Kings of England—believed to have last graced the head of Charles the First. Mr. Stewart paid a tremendous price for this—and the sale was secret. It was purchased by him from one of the most famous names in England.” Holmes and Watson are referred to as real people. Charles the First’s crown is real, but given the other references, “one of the most famous names in England” is probably Reginald Musgrave, for whom Holmes recovered the crown in “The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual.” In fact, the phrase “The ancient Crown of the Kings of England” is taken directly from that story. These connections bring Anthony Bathurst, who appeared in fifty-three novels from 1927 to 1958, into the CU. The date of “Friday, June 10th, 192–” is mentioned, suggesting the year is 1927. In Flynn’s non-series novel Tragedy at Trinket, Bathurst’s nephew Maurice Folliott solves a murder case. 

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: The Bobbi Flekman Story

 

Are you a fan of This is Spinal Tap?

Then you'll love this episode of The Nanny, which features a character from that film!

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 Covers: Star Trek/Green Lantern: Stranger Worlds

 

A sequel to the earlier miniseries Star Trek/Green Lantern: The Spectrum War, in which the Green Lantern Corps of a possible future for the DC Universe found themselves transported to the divergent universe seen in J. J. Abrams’ Star Trek films. In this story, Sinestro of GL’s universe tries to stop the Guardians of the Universe from forming the Corps in Kirk and company’s universe as well. At the end of the story, Hal Jordan is interested in discovering whether this universe has a planet with a red sun, a reference to Superman’s homeworld of Krypton. 

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: Second Violin

 

Are you a James Bond fan?

Then you'll love this entry in John Lawton's Inspector Frederick Troy series, which has a cameo by a young Bond, as well as nods to Margery Allingham's Albert Campion mysteries, John Osborne's play The Entertainer, George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, and P. G. Wodehouse's Uncle Fred 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 Cover: And Such Small Deer

 

In this story by Chris Roberson, Abraham Van Helsing battles the Giant Rat of Sumatra on a plantation owned by the Netherland-Sumatra Company and run by Baron de Maupertuis. Culverton Smith and the ship Matilda Briggs also appear, as do Dr. Moreau, Frédéric Lerne, and Max Havelaar. Abraham Van Helsing is from Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The Giant Rat of Sumatra and the Matilda Briggs are from Doyle and Watson’s Sherlock Holmes tale “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire.” The Netherland-Sumatra Company and Baron Maupertuis are from “The Adventure of the Reigate Squire.” Culverton Smith is from “The Adventure of the Dying Detective.” Dr. Moreau is from H. G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau. Frédéric Lerne is the title character of Maurice Renard’s Doctor Lerne. Max Havelaar is from the eponymous novel by “Multatuli” (Eduard Douwes Dekker).

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

Late December 2011 

DILLON AND THE PROPHECY OF FIRE 

Dillon brings his friends Wyatt Hyatt and Reynard Hansen and their new acquaintance Professor Ursula Van Houghton of Grand Lakes University to his home in Grand, Pennsylvania, which is filled with pictures by Ben Munceford, a photojournalist who disappeared in the 1960s. A group of villains seek the Vril energy from Dillon, who at one point wears a Gantlet Brothers T-shirt. Wyatt works on his Clip Pad. Dillon’s friend Eli Creed has been asked to consult on a new airplane design by friends at the Miami Aerospace Research & Dynamic Logistics. Germany’s Ministry of State Security has an extensive dossier on Dillon’s encounter with Sun Koh years ago. Another dossier on the subject was once in the hands of the Office of Scientific Intelligence. Dillon and friends are shown a laboratory right up there with any that can be found at Alternative Technologies or Hazzard Laboratories. At MARDL, Eli says goodbye to Clifton Storm, formerly known as Challenger Storm. Dillon met Master Gunnery Sergeant Morrell on a train ride from Harak to Khusra a few years ago. The mastermind behind the Vril plot is Li Shoon, the leader of the Ui Kwoon Ah-How. 

Story by Derrick Ferguson in Dillon Annual Collection 2019, Pro Se Productions, 2019. Grand Lakes University is from the movie Back to School. Dillon first met Ursula Van Houghton in “Dillon and the Night of the Krampus,” which takes place right before this story. Grand, Pennsylvania is from the television series Grand. Ben Munceford is from the movie The Bedford Incident. The Vril is from Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Coming Race. The Gantlet Brothers are the protagonists of a series of novels by Joel Jenkins. The Clip Pad is from Jenkins’ Dire Planet; Jenkins and Ferguson’s The Specialists reveals the Pad was invented by Wyatt Hyatt. The Miami Aerodrome Research & Development Laboratories (to use its name in the 1930s) and their head, Clifton “Challenger” Storm, are seen in novels by Don Gates. Sun Koh is a German pulp hero sometimes dubbed “the Nazi Doc Savage”; Dillon encountered him and the Vril in Ferguson and Josh Reynolds’ The Vril Agenda. The Office of Scientific Intelligence is from the television series The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman. The Henderson Institute of Alternative Technologies is from Ferguson’s serialized novel “A Man Called Mongrel,” appearing in the anthology series Mystery Men (& Women). Hazzard Laboratories is run by Captain Hazzard, a one-shot pulp hero created by “Chester Hawks” (Paul Chadwick). Khusra is from Ferguson’s Fortune McCall stories. The train ride was seen in Dillon and the Last Rail to Khusra. Li Shoon appeared in stories by H. Irving Hancock in Detective Story Magazine. 

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

Crossover Cover: Jane Porter and the City of Fire

 

Are you an Edgar Rice Burroughs fan?

Then you'll love this graphic novel featuring Tarzan's better half, which also has tie-ins to the Pellucidar series and the Caspak trilogy, as well as a reference to the awesome Victory Harben!

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: Eaters of the Dead

 

The bibliography of this novel includes an edition of Abdul Alhazred’s Necronomicon edited by H. P. Lovecraft and published in Providence, Rhode Island in 1934. The Necronomicon reference brings this 1976 novel by Michael Crichton into the CU. Its inclusion is further bolstered by references to the Eaters of the Dead in Simon R. Green’s Nightside books Hex and the City and Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth.

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: The Fatal Formula

 

Are you a Sexton Blake fan?

Then you'll love the seven-part serial by Rex Hardinge in these issues teaming Blake with another British story paper character, Edward Holmes' masked Old West lawman the Phantom Sheriff!

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: 642

 

In this epilogue by Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier to their adaptation and translation of Arsène Lupin: 813 by Maurice Leblanc, Dr. Watson explains why Sherlock Holmes falsely claimed not to have solved the riddle of 813 and notes another mystery about the case. Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin’s biographer, notes still another enigma about the affair. Finally, the whole matter is explained by M. Valenglay, the Président du Conseil and a member of the Black Coats, led by Colonel Bozzo-Corona. The Black Coats are featured in novels by Paul Féval. 

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! 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: The Mark of Terror

 

Are you a Ghostbusters fan?

Then you'll love this novel featuring the classic pulp hero Jim Anthony by Joshua M. Reynolds, which has nods to that film and several other works!

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! 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: The Sea Mystery

 

Inspector French says of his present case, “So far it rather reminds me of a case investigated several years ago by my old friend Inspector Burnley—he’s retired now. A cask was sent from France to London which was found to contain the body of a young married Frenchwoman, and it turned out that her unfaithful husband had murdered her.” Inspector Burnley and his case involving the cask are seen in Croft’s 1920 debut novel The Cask.

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

May 1-October 1957 

FIRST FRONTIER 

The Doctor helped the U.S. government with an affair in Santa Mira in 1956. The Master uses the phrase “Klaatu barada nikto.” Dr. von Scott examines UFO wreckage. Benny Summerfield excavated a series of 500-foot towers on Metaluna. Ace uses the obscenities “qu’vatlh” and “smeg.” A character says, “That’s like something out of Future Boy.” The Darklings, the fungoid inhabitants of Yuggoth, were driven back to 61 Cygni after their war with the Tzun. 

Doctor Who: The New Adventures novel by David A. McIntee, Virgin Books, 1994. The affair in Santa Mira in 1956 is a reference to the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The phrase “Klaatu barada nikto” comes from the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still. Dr. von Scott is the real name of Dr. Everett Scott in the movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The planet Metaluna is from the movie This Island Earth. “Qu’vatlh” is a Klingon swear word in Star Trek. The word “smeg” comes from the TV series Red Dwarf. Future Boy is a reference to the Quantum Leap episode “Future Boy – October 6, 1957.” In that episode, Future Boy is the sidekick of 1950s TV superhero Captain Galaxy on the television series Time Patrol, so the reference to Future Boy as the title of the show is a mistake. The Darklings and 61 Cygni are from the Blake’s 7 episode “Killer.” McIntee identifies them with the Mi-Go (aka the Fungi from Yuggoth) from H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. Although most Doctor Who novels take place in the Doctor Who Universe rather than the Crossover Universe, the battle between the Mi-Go and the Tzun is referenced in Stephen Baxter’s “The Ninth Planet,” a chapter of the Cthulhu Mythos “mosaic novel” The Lovecraft Squad: Rising. The Lovecraft Squad series has several crossovers linking it to the CU. This novel also establishes Red Dwarf and Blake’s 7 as possible futures for the CU.

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! 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: Beyond the Black Rainbow

 

Are you a Buckaroo Banzai fan?

Then you'll love this film, which has a nod to not only Buckaroo, but also to a character from William S. Burroughs' novel Naked Lunch!

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!

The Radium Robbers

 

Fanny Gordon, a young American working for the French Secret Service, must recover radium stolen by Arsène Lupin and his gang. Edith Macvane wrote four stories about Fanny Gordon for McClure’s in 1913-1914. Fanny’s encounter with Lupin brings her into the CU. 

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!

Crossover Covers: Atomic Robo and the Temple of Od

 

Are you an Indiana Jones fan?

Then you'll love this miniseries, in which Atomic Robo has a brief encounter with a member of Indy's supporting cast!

For more information, make sure you 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 volumes, this one is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover TV Episode: Muse

 

In this episode of Endeavour set in April 1968, Endeavour Morse, who has been promoted to Detective Sergeant, refuses to believe in the existence of an international thief called the Shadow, saying “It’s all a bit Simon Templar.” Among the items the Shadow is reputed to have stolen is the Lugash Diamond. The artist’s model whose murder Morse is investigating once posed for painter Gerard Pickman. Simon Templar is Leslie Charteris’ “laughing Robin Hood of crime,” the Saint. The Lugash Diamond is the titular gem from the movie The Pink Panther and its sequels. Gerard Pickman may be a relative of painter Richard Upton Pickman from H. P. Lovecraft’s “Pickman’s Model.”

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!