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 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: Writ in Blood

The first novel in the Serenity Falls Trilogy. Immortal occult detective Jonathan Crowley encounters a Deep One. Besides the Trilogy, Crowley is featured in other novels and stories by Moore. The run-in with a Deep One (from Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”) brings him into the CU.

Crossover Cover: Deeper

Captain Joe Bierden takes a research team, including parapsychologists Jacob and Mary Parsons, to the town of Golden Cove to embark upon a month-long diving expedition, only to encounter the Deep Ones and ghostly pirates. Joe’s wife is from Black Stone Bay. Golden Cove is allegedly built on the site where Innsmouth, which allegedly was completely demolished by the FBI in their raid on the town, once stood. Since Innsmouth is shown as still existing after the events of Lovecraft’s story in several accounts, this must be considered fictionalization in order to maintain CU continuity. More likely, Golden Cove is actually a neighboring town to Innsmouth, since many of its citizens possess “the Innsmouth look.” Jacob and Mary Parsons first appeared in The Pack, the second novel in Moore’s Serenity Falls Trilogy; the trilogy's protagonist, Jonathan Crowley, is in the CU through other crossovers. Black Stone Bay is the setting of Moore’s novels Blood Red and Blood Harvest.

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.