The Crossover UniverseTM is a companion blog to the books Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1-2 by Win Scott Eckert, and the forthcoming Crossovers Expanded Volumes 1-2 by Sean Levin. Material excerpted from Crossovers Volumes 1 & 2 is © copyright 2010-2014 by Win Scott Eckert. All rights reserved. Material excerpted from Crossovers Expanded Volumes 1 & 2 is © copyright 2014-present by Sean Levin. All rights reserved.
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!
Then you'll love this novel by my friend Frank Schildiner featuring Gouroull, the version of the monster seen in novels by French author and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere, which has a number of crossovers!
For more information, be sure to pick up 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!
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!
Then you'll love this novel, set in Anthony Trollope's English county of Barshetshire, which has a nod to Ivanhoe, among others!
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!
Winter 2005
BETTER THE DEVIL
The members of Caballistics, Inc. must find who is targeting the organization for extermination. Appearing or mentioned are: the Templars Resurgent; the Starry Wisdom; Delta Green; the Cult of the Black Sun; Hobb’s End; the British Rocket Group; the Wild Hunt; The Carnacki-Silence spectrum generator; the Lamp of Alhazred; Exham Priory; Drax Industries; Flaxton Hall; Cavorite; Wenley Moor; Norrell; Stable Mews; Steed; the Ministry; Frank Marker; Arthur Daley; “Randall and...a partner’s name that had been scrubbed out long ago”; and the Brigadier.
Novel by Mike Wild, 2000 AD, 2007. The Templars Resurgent are a reference to the Templi Resurgentes Equites Synarchici from Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum. The Starry Wisdom Church is from H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Haunter of the Dark.” Exham Priory is from Lovecraft’s “The Rats in the Walls.” Delta Green is from the titular supplement for the role-playing game Call of Cthulhu. The Cult of the Black Sun is a CU version of the group seen in Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell’s superhero comic Zenith. Hobb’s End and the Wild Hunt are from the movie Quatermass and the Pit. Professor Bernard Quatermass is the head of the British Experimental Rocket Group. The Carnacki-Silence spectrum generator is named after the title characters of William Hope Hodgson’s Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder and Algernon Blackwood’s John Silence. The Lamp of Alhazred is from August Derleth’s titular Cthulhu Mythos story. Drax Industries is from the film version of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novel Moonraker. Flaxton Hall is from the television series The Flaxton Boys. Cavorite is from H. G. Wells’ The First Men in the Moon. Wenley Moor is from the Doctor Who serial “Doctor Who and the Silurians.” The Brigadier is the Doctor’s ally, Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart. Norrell is Gilbert Norrell from Susanna Clarke’s alternate history fantasy novel Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. Wild describes Norrell as having “a kind of otherworldliness,” implying he comes from an alternate universe. In the television series The Avengers, Ministry agent John Steed lived at 3 Stable Mews. Frank Marker is from the TV series Public Eye. Arthur Daley is from the show Minder. “Randall and...a partner’s name that had been scrubbed out long ago” refers to the show Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased).
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!
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!
Then you'll love this e-book by Joshua M. Reynolds, which has a shout-out to the title character of Candyman, among other connections!
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!
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!
Then you'll love the last novel in Simon R. Green's Ghost Finders series, which has a nod to The King in Yellow, 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!
In "Penny Dreadful," Kolchak teams up with private investigator Domino Patrick, the Domino Lady’s daughter, to investigate a killer who is imitating the Manson family murders. Domino Patrick, created by Nancy Holder, would be the older half-sister of Helen Benson, the daughter of the Domino Lady and the avenging pulp hero, from Philip José Farmer and Win Scott Eckert’s The Evil in Pemberley House and Eckert’s The Scarlet Jaguar. References to Charles Manson being transferred to San Quentin Prison and Richard Ramirez’s “Night Stalker” killings place this story in 1985.
In "Time Stalker," Kolchak meets the time-lost superpowered hero Zero, as well as a past incarnation of his old foe, vampire Janos Skorzeny. Tony Vincenzo tells Kolchak, “I want you to go to Albuquerque. A major drug kingpin has been exposed, and the lid has been blown off a meth empire that’s been operating all over the Southwest. This guy is implicated in at least a dozen murders, and there may be an international angle. He’s still at large, but they know who he is, and they’re expecting an arrest soon.” At the end of this adventure, Carl says, “the fugitive drug lord had returned to Albuquerque, where he confronted a gang of white supremacists with whom he had issues. A fierce gun battle had erupted, and everybody on the premises—the neo-Nazis and the meth kingpin—had been killed.” Zero is loosely based on the short-lived pulp hero Captain Zero, although their powers are very different. Captain Zero is in the CU through Farmer’s Greatheart Silver and Lin Carter’s The Earth-Shaker. It seems hard to believe there were two superhuman heroes in the CU in the same era with the word “Zero” in their names who both had girlfriends named Doro Kelly. The meth kingpin in Albuquerque is Walter White from the television series Breaking Bad. That show takes place in the 2000s, by which point Kolchak would be in his eighties, and probably retired from journalism. Therefore, I consider this second story an AU.
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 Volumes 1 and 2!
Then you'll love this Cthulhu Mythos novella by Peter Rawlik, which has ties to that series and a number of other works!
For more information, be sure to check out 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!
Autumn 1921
A TALE OF TWO SOULS
Dr. Henry Jekyll seeks the Sâr Dubnotal’s aid, having heard rumors back of an odd case where he assisted Professor Van Helsing. Jekyll’s other personality, Edward Hyde, has opened the Cenobites’ puzzle box. The Sâr’s sanctum includes such items as the Helmet of Nabu, the Witchblade, and the Resurrection Stone. A Cenobite with pins sticking out of his skull appears. The Sâr offers the Cenobite Hyde as his emissary on Earth, saying there are souls so evil they are beyond his ability to change them, such as Fantômas and Tserpchikopf. Two months later, Hyde offers the puzzle box to Irma Vep and the Great Vampire.
Short story by Matthew Dennion in Sâr Dubnotal 2: The Astral Trail, Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier, eds., Black Coat Press, 2015; reprinted in French in Les Compagnons de l’Ombre (Tome 19), Jean-Marc Lofficier, ed., Rivière Blanche, 2016. The Sâr Dubnotal is a French pulp hero. Tserpchikopf battled the Sâr in several novels. Dr. Henry Jekyll and his alter ego Edward Hyde are from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Professor Abraham Van Helsing is from Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The Cenobites and their puzzle box, the Lament Configuration, are from the Hellraiser movies. The Cenobite with pins sticking out of his skull is Pinhead. Captain Elliott Spencer became Pinhead in 1921, as established in Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, so this story must take place not long after. The Helmet of Nabu will later be worn by DC Comics’ mystic hero Dr. Fate. The Witchblade is from the titular Top Cow Comics series. The Resurrection Stone is from J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, bringing in Harry Potter. Fantômas is Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre’s villain. Irma Vep and the Great Vampire are from the serial Les Vampires.
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!
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!
Then you'll love this novel, which brings together three of his series characters, Livia Lone, John Rain, and Ben Treven!
For more information, make sure to buy 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!
Then you'll love this comic where he meets Tiziano Sclavi's occult investigator Dylan Dog!
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!
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!
Then you'll love this episode of the TV series Fargo, which is in continuity with the Coens' film of the same name, that has an implied connection to their film The Big Lebowski!
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!
Summer 1958
CRUEL HEAVEN
The Demon Khan (aka Mina Struan) recruits Herbert West’s former assistant Daniel Cain to resurrect the Atlantean wizard Khutulus. Also appearing or mentioned are: the Black Tigers; Ilchedai Khan; Shiwana; the Golden Horde; the Dark Star (aka Yrimid); Mi-Ling; the Purple Sacrament; Burle Haisson; Stuart Hartwell; Tsan Chanyu; the Temple of Xangi; the Seven Rubies of Bolopore; Mina Struan’s paternal grandfather and grandmother; Daniel Cain’s great-grandfather; the Disposer of Souls (aka Erlik); the Black Lotus; the Winged Rider; Suleiman Ishak; The Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan; the Upas-Purãnas; Les Chroniques de Nemedea; Yahlgan; Dr. Omega Stark; Miskatonic University; Thoolsah; Kuen-Yuin; Khalkuru; R’ylethee; the Red Offering; King Cual of Valooze; Ulthar; the Dreamlands; Zushakon; Nug; the Black Litany; Alanhati; Derrick Struan; the Lurker of the Fourth Axis; a Mongol chieftain; the Sung orchids; the Choking Chalice; the ape-men of the Gobi; Kang; Than-Kul; the Livre d’Ivon; and Yin-yang Li.
Short story by Rick Lai in Legacy of the Reanimator: Chronicles of Dr. Herbert West, Peter Rawlik and Brian M. Sammons, eds., Chaosium, 2015. Herbert West and Daniel Cain are from H. P. Lovecraft’s “Herbert West – Reanimator.” The Demon Khan is Erlik Khan from Robert E. Howard’s Steve Harrison stories, who Lai conflates with Yasmeena from Howard’s El Borak tale “The Daughter of Erlik Khan.” Khutulus is meant to be Kathulos from Howard’s “Skull-Face” and “Taverel Manor.” Lai conflates him with Kuthulos from Howard’s Kull story “The Cat and the Skull.” Thoolsah and Djelcurdes are Thulsa Doom and Delcardes from the same tale. The Black Tigers are from the El Borak story “The Country of the Knife.” Ilchedai Khan and the Golden Horde are from the TV movie Fanfare for a Death Scene. Shiwana is the daughter of the shadowy vigilante’s archenemy. The Dark Star is from Robert W. Chambers’ titular book. It was given the name Yrimid in The Slayer of Souls. Mi-Ling and Burle Haisson are from the round robin novels “Herbert West – Reanimated” and “Herbert West – Reincarnated.” The Purple Sacrament is based on a purple healing potion used by the slouch-hatted crimefighter and his agents. Hartwell is from Lovecraft’s “The Dunwich Horror.” Peter Rawlik gave Hartwell the first name Stuart and portrayed him as a rival of Herbert West. Tsan Chanyu is meant to be Shiwana’s father’s fortress, as well as the beginning of “the cruel empire of Tsan Chan, which is to come in 5,000 A.D.” in Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Out of Time.” One of the inhabitants of Tsan Chan is Yiang Li, a philosopher who has his mind swapped with that of one of the Great Race of Yith; Lai refers to him as Yin-yang Li, and reveals he is really an immortal Daniel Cain. Xangi and Kuen-Yuin are from Chambers’ “The Maker of Moons.” The Seven Rubies of Bolopore are from the Shadow novel The Seven Drops of Blood. Mina Struan’s paternal grandfather is Dirk Struan from James Clavell’s Tai-Pan, while her grandmother is Ling Ju Hai, identified as Fu Manchu’s mother in Philip José Farmer’s Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life. Daniel Cain’s great-grandfather, whose second wife was Chinese, is Thomas Henry Caine, the father of Kwai Chang Caine, the protagonist of the TV series Kung Fu. Cain’s grandfather is Kwai Chang’s older half-brother, Danny Caine. The Disposer of Souls is Zukala, from a series of poems by Howard. Lai identifies Zukala with Chambers’ version of Erlik and the King in Yellow, from Chambers’ titular collection. The Black Lotus is from Howard’s Conan stories. The Winged Rider is from Harold Lamb’s Khlit the Cossack story of the same name. Suleiman (or Solomon) Ishak is from Sax Rohmer’s The Mask of Fu Manchu. The Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan are from Lovecraft’s “The Other Gods” and “The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.” The Upas-Purãnas are from Lin Carter’s Thongor novels. Les Chroniques de Nemedea are a reference to The Nemedian Chronicles from the Conan stories. Yahlgan is from Howard’s “Black Hound of Death.” Omega Stark is the daughter of John Stark, aka Om, from Howard’s “The House of Om,” a synopsis for an unwritten short story. Miskatonic University is a staple of the Cthulhu Mythos. Khalkuru is a conflation of Cthulhu with Khalk’ru the Kraken God from A. Merritt’s Dwellers in the Mirage. R’ylethee is R’lyeh. The Red Offering is from Carter’s eponymous story. King Cual of Valooze is Kull, who rules the kingdom of Valusia. A lost civilization called Valooze appears in the El Borak story “Khoda Khan’s Tale.” Ulthar is from Lovecraft’s “The Cats of Ulthar.” The Dreamlands are from Lovecraft’s Dream Cycle stories. Zushakon is from Henry Kuttner’s “The Bells of Horror.” Nug is from Lovecraft’s “Out of the Aeons,” “The Mound,” and “The Last Test,” co-written with Hazel Heald, Zealia Bishop, and Adolphe de Castro, respectively. The Black Litany is from Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.’s poem “The Black Litany of Nug and Yeb.” Alanhati is another name for Atlantis in Brian Lumley’s “In the Vaults Beneath.” Derrick Struan is meant to be Fu Manchu. The Lurker of the Fourth Axis is a conflation of Lovecraft’s Yog-Sothoth with the titular god from E. Hoffmann Price’s Pierre d’Artois story “Lord of the Fourth Axis.” The Mongol chieftain is Khoon from Mark Channing’s Colin Gray novels. The Sung orchids are meant to be the Burmese orchids from which Fu Manchu’s Elixir Vitae is derived, although Sung is from August Derleth and Mark Schorer’s “The Lair of the Star-Spawn.” The Choking Chalice and Kang are from Frank Gruber’s “The Choking Chalice.” The ape-men of the Gobi are from Howard’s “Three-Bladed Doom” and “The Devils of Dark Lake.” Than-Kul is from Howard’s poem “The Doom Chant of Than-Kul.” The Livre d’Ivon is the French version of the Book of Eibon, a Cthulhu Mythos tome created by Clark Ashton Smith. Although Lai says Dirk Struan is Fu Manchu’s father, Farmer identifies his father as Sir William Clayton in Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life. In Win Scott Eckert’s “Being an Account of the Delay at Green River, Wyoming, of Mr. Phileas Fogg, World Traveler,” Dr. Shan Ming Fu, who is meant to be Fu Manchu, mentions his and Fogg’s “shared paternity,” a reference to Farmer’s identification of Fogg as another of Sir William’s many offspring. To make this story compatible with Farmer’s genealogy, we must assume that Fu deceived his daughter about his parentage for reasons of his own.
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!
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!
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!
Then you'll love Josh Reynolds' story in this anthology, which has a nod to that film, as well as strong connections to Reynolds' Royal Occultist series, among others!
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!
Then you'll love this anthology graphic novel, which has stories that tie in with Frankenstein, The X-Files, Richard Matheson's Hell House, Dracula, The Munsters, and Nosferatu!
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!
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!
Spring 2010
DARK WAR
Appearing or mentioned are: the Hyde formula; Dr. Moreau; Jerboa, a werethylacine; Frankenstein Monsters; Audrey IIs; Granny Red, an immortal monster hunter; the Weird Sisters; the Beast with a Million Eyes; the Killer Shrews; the Monster that Challenged the World; the Crawling Eye; Q the Winged Serpent; the Giant Gila Monster; the original Hound of the Baskervilles; Kongar; Reptilikan; the Sea Hag; Dr. Bombay; Chandu; the Blair Witch; a Gill-Man; Carl; and Arthur Van Helsing.
The third and final Nekropolis novel by Tim Waggoner, 2011. The Hyde formula is from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Dr. Moreau is either Dr. Alphonse Moreau from H. G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau or one of his descendants. Jerboa is from the movie The Howling III: The Marsupials. Frankenstein Monsters are from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Audrey II is from the movie The Little Shop of Horrors. Granny Red claims to be the original Little Red Riding Hood. The Weird Sisters are from William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The Beast with 1,000,000 Eyes, the Killer Shrews, the Monster that Challenged the World, the Crawling Eye, Q the Winged Serpent, and the Giant Gila Monster are all from the movies of the same name. The original Hound of the Baskervilles is from Doyle and Watson’s eponymous Sherlock Holmes novel. Kongar and Reptilikan are stand-ins for the titular creatures from the movies King Kong and Reptilicus. The Sea Hag is Popeye’s foe from E. C. Segar’s comic strip Thimble Theatre. Dr. Bombay is from the TV series Bewitched. Chandu is from the radio series Chandu the Magician. The Blair Witch is from the movie The Blair Witch Project. The Gill-Man is from the movie Creature from the Black Lagoon and its sequels. Carl is Carl Kolchak, who previously appeared in the first Nekropolis novel. Arthur Van Helsing is a member of the famous family of monster hunters.
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!
Then you'll love this novella, which features the Lord of the Undead, recurring characters from author Charles R. Rutledge's fiction, and the Frankenstein monster, as well as a nod to the Ruthvenian from Donald F. Glut's connected works!
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!
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!
Then you'll love this chapbook by Frank Schildiner, in which a mysterious Japanese man called Mr. Minamoto takes on Jack London's Assassination Bureau, Ltd.!
For more information, including the other crossovers in this chapbook, be sure to buy 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! Incidentally, not only was this story also published by Meteor House, but it shares its cover artist, the enormously talented Keith Howell, with Crossovers Expanded!
