Crossover Cover: Black Tide

 

In this story by James A. Moore and Charles R. Rutledge, the monster hunter Jonathan Crowley and the barbarian Kharrn, both immortals, battle the Deep Ones. Moore’s character Jonathan Crowley and Rutledge’s character Kharrn first met in the chapbook What Rough Beast. This story is a sequel to Moore’s Deeper, itself a sequel to H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow over Innsmouth.”

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 Cover: The Occult Legion

 

Are you an occult detective fiction fan?

Then you'll love the centuries-spanning round robin story in these issues, featuring characters such as Joshua M. Reynolds' Charles St. Cyprian and Charles R. Rutledge's Carter Decamp!

For more information, be sure to purchase 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 House in the Witch Dreams

 

In this story by Charles R. Rutledge, occult expert Professor Carter Decamp helps college student Nancy Upton discover the source of dreams she’s been having about a witch and a house she senses is her own, though she’s never been in it before. Decamp shows Nancy a painting of a ghoul done by a rather infamous artist named Pickman in the 1920s and says the ghouls’ last recorded uprising was in that decade and was put down by a man named Kharrn. Decamp has a walking stick that conceals a blade. Carter Decamp is a recurring character in Rutledge’s fiction, including the Griffin and Price series, coauthored with James A. Moore. The immortal barbarian Kharrn is another of Rutledge’s recurring heroes. Pickman is from H. P. Lovecraft’s “Pickman’s Model.” The painter’s full name is Richard Upton Pickman, so he and Nancy Upton may be related. As established in Moore and Rutledge’s Blind Shadows, Decamp’s sword-cane is the same one that once belonged to Manly Wade Wellman’s occult detective Judge Pursuivant. Nancy says February 15 was last Sunday, suggesting the year is 2015.

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 Cover: Bleeding Through

 

Are you a fan of Brian Keene, J. F. Gonzalez, and Mark Williams' Clickers series?

Then you'll love Charles R. Rutledge's story in this anthology, in which Rutledge's recurring character Kharrn visits the Clickers Universe!

For more information, check out 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: Dracula's Ghost

 

Detective Jennifer Grail and occult investigator Carter Decamp once again do battle with Dracula. Jen borrows Kharrn’s sword from Decamp. Mircalla Karnstein, aka Carla Lim and Carmilla, seeks to resurrect Dracula. Decamp consults the Ruthvenian, and plans to check Pursuivant’s Vampiricon. Decamp arranges for Jen to meet with a contact of Wade Griffin, who is in a relationship with Decamp’s apprentice Charon. Decamp reminds Jen of what Victor told them about Dracula’s first resurrection. Jennifer Grail, Carter Decamp, and Kharrn are recurring characters in Rutledge’s work. Dracula should need no explanation. Mircalla “Carmilla” Karnstein is from J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla.” The Ruthvenian is a tome of vampire lore from the connected works of Donald F. Glut. Judge Pursuivant is one of Manly Wade Wellman’s occult detectives. The Vampiricon is mentioned in the Pursuivant stories. Wade Griffin and Charon are from James A. Moore and Rutledge’s Griffin and Price series, in which Decamp is a supporting character. Dracula’s Revenge had Jen and Decamp fighting Dracula alongside the Frankenstein Monster, who had adopted his creator’s first name, Victor.

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 Cover: The Weavers in Darkness

 

In this story by James A. Moore and Charles R. Rutledge, Jonathan Crowley and occult detective Carter Decamp battle giant spiders created by Atlach-Nacha. Jonathan Crowley and Carter Decamp are recurring characters created by Moore and Rutledge, respectively. Atlach-Nacha is from Clark Ashton Smith’s “The Seven Geases.” 

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: Dracula's Revenge

 

Are you a Dracula fan?

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!

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 of the Week

September-October 2012

A HELL WITHIN 

Sheriff Carl Price and mercenary turned private eye Wade Griffin combat a series of killings committed by a demon summoned by a madman. Griffin asks their ally, occult expert Carter Decamp, if Kharrn’s weapons can stop a demon, and if this has anything to do with the Moon-Eyes or the Old Ones. Carl and Griffin are aided by psychometrist Cindy Kane, whose father is also a medium. Decamp gives Griffin a demon-detecting compass once belonging to Thomas Carnacki. Decamp and his apprentice Charon, Griffin’s girlfriend, have brunch at a waffle house recommended to Decamp by an associate, Deacon Chalk. Browsing Decamp’s library, Cindy recognizes a lot of volumes that her father and Decamp’s mutual friend Adam has in his own collection, including Kirowan’s Myths of the Little People. Decamp possesses a silver-edged sword that once belonged to another occult investigator. Carl is attacked by Hellhounds, which are described as “the Black Dogs, Old Shuck, and the great beasts of the Baskervilles.” 

Novel by James A. Moore and Charles R. Rutledge, 2018. Kharrn is an immortal barbarian featured in several of Rutledge’s works. The Great Old Ones are from the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft. Carl and Griffin encountered one of the Great Old Ones, Shub-Niggurath, in their first appearance, Blind Shadows. Cindy Kane’s father is Elliot Kane, a medium and friend of Dr. Adam Spektor in Donald F. Glut’s comic book The Occult Files of Dr. Spektor. Thomas Carnacki is from William Hope Hodgson’s Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder. “Occult bounty hunter” Deacon Chalk is the protagonist of a series of novels by James R. Tuck. Kirowan is Robert E. Howard’s occult detective John Kirowan, who encountered the Little People in “The Children of the Night.” Blind Shadows implied Decamp’s sword was the same one once wielded by Manly Wade Wellman’s character Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant. The great beasts of the Baskervilles are a reference to Doyle and Watson’s Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. 

This crossover writeup is one of hundreds included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House! As with the first two, this volume is an official and AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Virgin Zombie

Lt. Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels of the Chicago Police Department tracks a meth cook to Wellman, Georgia, teaming up with private eye Wade Griffin in the process. They discover that the cook is using a neurotoxin to create zombies. Jack mentions her friend McGlade, who is also a P.I. Wade Griffin is from Rutledge and James A. Moore’s novels Blind Shadows and Congregations of the Dead, which I've covered here in the past. Jack Daniels is a cop featured in novels by J.A. Konrath, while McGlade is Harry McGlade, another series character of Konrath.

Crossover Cover: What Rough Beast

In this chapbook, Jonathan Crowley and the axe-wielding Kharrn battle a pack of werewolves. The immortal barbarian Kharrn appeared alongside Thomas Carnacki in Rutledge’s story “The Beautiful Lady Without Pity: A Carnacki the Ghost-Finder Adventure,” and was mentioned in Moore and Rutledge’s novel Congregations of the Dead, which I covered in a previous Crossover of the Week post. Jonathan Crowley, also an immortal, is a recurring character of Moore's, and encountered one of H.P. Lovecraft's Deep Ones in the book Writ in Blood. The year is not given, but it takes place in the Old West, and there is a reference indicating the Civil West was not long ago, suggesting a placement in the 1870s.

Crossover of the Week

I covered James A. Moore and Charles Rutledge's book Blind Shadows in a previous post. Today, I give you my write-up of its sequel.

Late August 2012

CONGREGATIONS OF THE DEAD

            Sheriff Carl Price and Wade Griffin battle the Reverend Lazarus Cotton and his congregation of vampires. Price and Griffin’s ally Andy Hunter refers to an old colleague of his named Crowley. Another ally, Carter Decamp, reminds Griffin that he said that the Great Old Ones only have limited power on Earth because our reality is naturally resistant to supernatural forces. Griffin’s girlfriend Charon recognizes copies of Unspeakable Cults and the Ruthvenian in Decamp’s personal library of occult texts. Decamp says that he only knows of two other surviving copies of the Ruthvenian, a book of lore and spells dealing with vampires, both of which are in the possession of a colleague of his. Charon remarks that she thought the Ruthvenian was a myth like Alhazred’s Necronomicon, but Decamp indicates that the Necronomicon may not be mythical. Charon notes that Pursuivant’s Vampiricon suggests garlic as a means of repelling vampires.

            Novel by James A. Moore and Charles R. Rutledge, Arcane Wisdom Press, 2013. Jonathan Crowley is a recurring character in Moore’s fiction. The Great Old Ones are at the center of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos; Price and Griffin battled one of the Old Ones, Shub Niggurath, in their first appearance, Blind Shadows. The Necronomicon, penned by Abdul Alhazred, also plays a prominent role in the Mythos. Friedrich von Juntz’s Unspeakable Cults (or Unaussprechlichen Kulten in the original German) is a Cthulhu Mythos tome created by Robert E. Howard. The Ruthvenian is a recurring book in the interconnected fiction of Donald F. Glut. Decamp’s colleague who owns the other two surviving copies of the book is Dr. Adam Spektor, from Glut’s comic book series The Occult Files of Doctor Spektor. The Vampiricon was authored by Manly Wade Wellman’s occult detective Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant, and is mentioned in the Pursuivant stories.