Crossover of the Week

Early Autumn 1926 

A WHISPER OF SOFT WINGS 

Noticing parallels between his current case and a previous affair, Charles St. Cyprian asks Inspector Moxley if he was acquainted with Inspector Quennell. Not long after solving that case, Quennell turned over his notes to St. Cyprian’s predecessor, Carnacki. Quennell’s main suspect was Dr. Mallinger. The Voyagers Club resides on Dover Street, alongside others of its ilk, such as the Albermarle, the Drones, and the Diogenes. The late Geoffrey Botkin was one of the few who has been to Maple White Land, a few years after the Challenger expedition, with Lord John Roxton in 1913. According to a newspaperman named Malone, Botkin was almost eaten by a giant spider. The Voyagers’ bar has a bust of Quatermain over the door. St. Cyprian discusses an alchemist and member of the Order of the Cosmic Ram who engaged in experiments like Mallinger’s with another member of the Order, who also belongs to the Bollinger Club. St. Cyprian’s friend Bertie lives on Berkley Street. 

Short story by Josh Reynolds on the website Curious Fictions. Inspector Quennell and Dr. Carl Mallinger are from the movie The Blood Beast Terror. Thomas Carnacki is from William Hope Hodgson’s Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder. The Drones Club is from the works of P. G. Wodehouse. Bertie is Bertie Wooster. The Diogenes Club is from Doyle and Watson’s Sherlock Holmes stories. Maple White Land, Professor George Edward Challenger, Lord John Roxton, and Edward D. Malone are from Doyle’s The Lost World. Allan Quatermain is from H. Rider Haggard’s novels and stories. The Bollinger Club is from Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall. 

This crossover writeup is one of over a thousand included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, coming this summer from 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: The Bride of the Hound

 

In this story by Joshua M. Reynolds, Charles St. Cyprian, Nadja Highmill, and Philip Wendy-Smythe attend a party at Myrdstone Manor. Carnacki’s death at Ypres is mentioned. Nadja has said barely two words to their host, Delilah Myrdstone, since Gussie’s Christmas party last year. Delilah’s fiancé Mueller tells St. Cyprian certain translations of the Bible reference “the ghouls that burrow.” Wendy-Smythe mentions the primitive buildings found at Exham Priory a few years ago and says von Juntz was right about ghouls. “The Myrdstone Witch-Cult” is mentioned in Lin Carter’s Anton Zarnak story “Curse of the Black Pharaoh.” Carnacki is from William Hope Hodgson’s Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder. Carnacki’s death was likely staged, given his post-World War I appearances in the CU. Gussie is Gussie Fink-Nottle from P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves books. The Biblical references to “the ghouls that burrow” are fictional and derived from Robert Barbour Johnson’s “Far Below.” Exham Priory is from H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Rats in the Walls.” Friedrich von Juntz, the author of Unaussprechlichen Kulten, is from Robert E. Howard’s Mythos fiction.

This crossover is one of over a thousand covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, coming this summer from 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: Colours

 

In this episode of Endeavour, Chief Inspector Thursday and his wife attended the Stuart-Hargreaves Dance Studio in Bicester. Murder victim Jean Ward is really the Right Honorable Moira Creighton-Ward. The South Oxfordshire Regiment was at Mboto Gorge. One of the Regiment’s members is Private “Geordie” Collier. A pair of British fascists named Spode and Webley are mentioned. Yvonne and Barry Stuart-Hargreaves were the dance instructors at the holiday camp Maplins in the TV show Hi-de-Hi!, which takes place in 1959-1960. Apparently, they left the camp and opened a dance studio in Bicester sometime between 1960 and 1968. The Right Honorable Moira Creighton-Ward is apparently a relative of Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward from the television series Thunderbirds, which has already been established as a possible future for the CU. The Battle of Mboto Gorge is from the Blackadder Goes Forth episode “Goodbyeee.” Private Collier may be Newcastle native Terry Collier from the television series The Likely Lads. Terry joined the army in the last episode. Roderick Spode is from P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves novels. Everard Webley is from Aldous Huxley’s Point Counter Point. 

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: Jeeves and the Leap of Faith

 

Are you a fan of P. G. Wodehouse's comic novels featuring Bertie Wooster and his valet Reginald Jeeves?

Then you'll love this new authorized novel featuring the duo that has references to two of Evelyn Waugh's novels, as well as P. L. Travers' Mary Poppins books!

All the details can be found in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published in the not-too-distant future 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: Merry John Mock

Hey, like William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki stories?

Then you'll love this story by Josh Reynolds featuring Carnacki's former apprentice and successor as Royal Occultist, Charles St. Cyprian, that also has crossover ties to the Jeeves and Wooster series, among others!

All the details can be found in Crossovers Expanded Vols. 1 and 2, my AUTHORIZED companions to Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Vols. 1 and 2 by Win Scott Eckert, debuting at the Meteor House booth at PulpFest/FarmerCon in Columbus, OH on July 21-24!

Crossover Cover: All the Tea in China

In 1839, Carolus Mortdecai “Karli” van Cleef arrives in England with the intention of selling fine china, and is befriended by John Jorrocks, MFH, merchant of Great Coram Street. Karli’s first customer is a Lord Windermere. Mr. Jorrocks is proud of having established an Honourable Wooster as a customer of his own. Karli is the ancestor of Bonfiglioli’s series character Charlie Mortdecai, whom I've written about in previous posts. Mr. Jorrocks is from R. S. Surtees’ Jorrocks’ Jaunts and Jollities. Lord Windermere must be an ancestor of the holder of that title seen in Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan. The Honourable Wooster must be related to Bertie Wooster.

Crossover of the Week

Mid December 1925

THE THIRD DEATH OF HENRY ANTRIM

            Charles St. Cyprian and Ebe Gallowglass investigate a dead body at a Christmas party hosted by Porthos “Porky” Caruthers, whose guests include Roberta “Bobbie” Wickham. St. Cyprian notes that the bite marks on the neck of the victim are not the discreet pinpricks of Stoker’s sanitized account of the last vampire outbreak, but rather the red, wide marks of a beast of prey. St. Cyprian examines Caruthers’ collection of wanted posters for outlaws of the Old West, including Jesse James, John Wesley Hardin, Butch Cavendish, and Billy the Kid. Bobbie refers to an incident at an art opening, and St. Cyprian replies that the artist was a lycanthrope. Caruthers owns a .45 Colt Peacemaker that allegedly belonged to Lone Crow, an Indian mystic, gunslinger, and devil-hunter mentioned in the diaries of Shotgun Ferguson. Caruthers says that he has an agent trying to get access to a box of unpublished dime novels sealed away by Miskatonic University.

            Short story by Josh Reynolds in PulpWork Christmas Special 2013, PulpWork Press. Roberta “Bobbie” Wickham appears in two different series by P.G. Wodehouse, the Jeeves books and the Mr. Mulliner stories. The last vampire outbreak in England was chronicled in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Butch Cavendish is one of the Lone Ranger’s foes. The lycanthropic artist is Gabriel-Ernest Smythe from H.H. Munro’s story “Gabriel-Ernest.” St. Cyprian encountered Smythe in Reynolds’ story “The Artist as Wolf.” Lone Crow and Shotgun Ferguson appear in “weird” Western stories by Joel Jenkins. In Jenkins’ stories, Lone Crow sometimes visits Miskatonic University (from H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos.) This story takes place two weeks before Christmas.