Crossover of the Week

July 1977

VOODOO VS. CTHULHU! 

Adventuress Nefertiti Bronze battles the Esoteric Order of Dagon, who killed her voodoo bocor ex-husband. Montresor Mountmain’s Chapel of Satan in Hell’s Kitchen is the base of one of the rival cults that falls victim to the worshippers of the Esoteric Order. Joseph Curwen, in his current body of Walker Phillip Ward, can turn up unannounced at Sbirro’s, though the restaurant is officially booked solid for years ahead. Curwen is interviewed by Whitney Gauge of the FBI’s Human Protection League, aka the Unnamables. Nefertiti’s grandmother was a seven-foot-tall Waziri princess named Ashanti. Curwen puts out a contract on Nefertiti, but the major assassins all fail, and Don Corrado Prizzi decides to sit things out. Curwen pores over photos of Nefertiti with famous people, including Derek Flint. 

Short story by Kim Newman in The Lovecraft Squad: Dreaming, Pegasus Books, 2018. The Esoteric Order of Dagon is from H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow over Innsmouth.” Montresor Mountmain is a member of the Mountmain family seen in Newman’s “Seven Stars.” Joseph Curwen is from Lovecraft’s The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Sbirro’s is from Stanley Ellin’s “The Specialty of the House.” Whitney Gauge first appeared in Newman’s Diogenes Club story “Moon Moon Moon.” The Unnamables first appeared in Newman’s “The Big Fish”; it is revealed here that they are synonymous with the Human Protection League (HPL), the branch of the FBI featured in The Lovecraft Squad books. The Waziri tribe is from the Tarzan novels. Don Corrado Prizzi is from Richard Condon’s series of novels, beginning with Prizzi’s Honor. Derek Flint is from the movies Our Man Flint and In Like Flint. 

This crossover writeup is one of over a thousand appearing 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: Anno Dracula 1902: The Chances of Anything Coming from Mars

 

Are you a fan of Kim Newman's Anno Dracula series?

Then you'll love the new story in that universe included as a bonus in this book!

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 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 Cover: Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju

 

Today is my birthday, so to celebrate, I’m doing something special, by posting an excerpt from Appendix 1 of the new book, “The Anno Dracula Universe and Character Guide.” Enjoy!

Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju (Titan Books, 2019)

• Richard Jeperson is from Newman’s The Man from the Diogenes Club

• Christina Light (Roderick Hudson and The Princess Casamassima by Henry James)

• Cham-Cham and Mima are from the movie Perfect Blue

• Sprünt is from the TV series Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge

• Yōkai (monsters from Japanese legend)

• Hyakume (yōkai)

• Triffids (The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham)

• Voltan (Jack Palance, Hawk the Slayer)

• The Chatsubo Bar (Neuromancer by William Gibson)

• Dr. Jogoro Komoda (Tatsumi Hijikata, Horrors of Malformed Men)

• Merkwerdichliebe (Dr. Merkwürdigliebe, aka Dr. Strangelove; Peter Sellers, Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)

• Kate Reed

• Geneviève Dieudonné

• The Macedonia (The Sea-Wolf by Jack London)

• Sunway Systems is from the movie Cypher 

• Syrie Van Epp (Elizabeth Shepherd, The Corridor People)

• Wings Over the World is from the movie Things to Come

• Groover’s is from the movie Au Pair Girls 

• Millarca is the title character of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla”

• The Daikaiju Building is in the shape of Gojira, aka Godzilla 

• The Monk (vampire and early foe of Batman)

• Taguchi (Kenji Mizuhashi, Pulse)

• Ishikawa (Shutaro Ishikawa; Ken Ogata, My Soul Is Slashed)

• Karl the Chiropterid is meant to be Karl Fei-Ong from the anime Blood+

• John Blaylock (David Bowie, The Hunger)

• Mycroft Holmes

• Caleb Croft (Michael Pataki, Grave of the Vampire)

• Lord Ruthven (“The Vampyre” by John Polidori)

• Drearcliff Grange is from Newman's Drearcliff Grange School series

• Yuki-Onna (yōkai; also played by Keiko Kishi in the movie Kwaidan)

• Detective Yoshitaka Azuma is a combination of Detective Azuma from Violent Cop with Detective Yoshitaka Nishi from Hana-Bi, both played by Takeshi Kitano

• Jiiji the Pimp (Shinya Tsukamoto, Ichi the Killer)

• Captain Takeda (Shun Sugata, Confessions of a Dog)

• Tenjo Kudari (yōkai)

• Officer Kamikura (Ichigo Kamikura; Osamu Mukai, S: The Last Policeman)

• The Sakis are from the Sukeban Deka film series

• Urufu Inugami (Akira Inugami; Wolf Guy by Kazumasa Hirai and Hisashi Sakaguchi)

• Big Thinks is from Newman’s Diogenes Club story “Tomorrow Town”

• WOTAN is from the Doctor Who serial “The War Machines”

• The General is from The Prisoner episode of the same name

• REMAK is from The Avengers episode “Killer”

• Gargantuabots are from Newman’s story “Gargantuabots vs. the Nice Mice”

• Erzulie Bronze is the daughter of Nefertiti Bronze from Newman’s contributions to The Lovecraft Squad mosaic novel series

• The Trenchcoat Twosome (the Trenchcoat Twins, played by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley video series)

• The Bowmans is from the titular Hancock episode

• Six-tentacled octopus by the Golden Gate Bridge (It Came from Beneath the Sea)

• Giant ape above the Bullring (King Kong)

• Flimsy-winged reptile tethered in the Tivoli Gardens (Reptilicus)

• The vampire killed by electricity in the Arctic Circle in 1951 is a reference to the movie The Thing from Another World 

• Lefty is the titular appendage from The Outer Limits episode “Demon with a Glass Hand,” written by Harlan Ellison

• The Starship Protector, Dr. Lazarus, and Galaxy Quest are from the movie Galaxy Quest

• The Eyeheads are from Naoki Urasawa’s manga 20th Century Boys 

• Unwin-Fujikawa Chemicals is derived from Unwin Chemicals in Newman’s novel Bad Dreams 

• Mr. Horowitz, aka Mr. Horror and Iron Mouth (Jaws; Richard Kiel, The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker; the character was based on Sol “Horror” Horowitz from Ian Fleming's original novel The Spy Who Loved Me)

• Dr. Kiyokazu Akiba (Kōichi Satō, Infection)

• General Gokemidoro is from the movie Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell

• The Uchoten Hotel is from the movie of the same name, as are Tokiko (Keiko Toda) and Zenbu (Toshiyuki Nishida)

• Colonel Golgotha is the title character of Takao Saito's manga Golgo 13

• Derek (Peter Jackson, Bad Taste)

• O-Ren Blake, aka Cottonmouth, is a conflation of O-Ren “Cottonmouth” Ishii from Kill Bill: Vol. 1 with Sadie Blake from Rise: Blood Hunter; Lucy Liu played both characters

• Killer (Light “Kira” Yagami; Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata)

• Furīman (Crying Freeman by Kazuo Koike and Ryoichi Ikegami)

• Panty-Mask (Ryôhei Suzuki, Hentai Kamen and Hentai Kamen: The Abnormal Crisis)

• Mikaeris, aka the Butler (Sebastian Michaelis; Black Butler by Yana Toboso)

• Kurokawa, aka Caterpillar (“The Caterpillar” by Edogawa Rampo)

• Mizuno, aka Astro-Man (Yoshio Tsuchiya, The Human Vapor)

• Hanjuro, the Black Ninja (David Chung, Ninja III: The Domination)

• Simon Molinar (Jason Carter, Demon Under Glass)

• Brilliant-Smith (Dick Tracy by Chester Gould)

• Dr. Septimus Pretorius (Ernest Thesiger, Bride of Frankenstein)

• Henry Jekyll (Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson)

• Senator John Blutarski (John Belushi, National Lampoon’s Animal House)

• Don Sebastian de Villanueva (vampire in novels by Les Daniels)

• Xochitl (Rosa Arenas, The Aztec Mummy, The Curse of the Aztec Mummy, and The Aztec Mummy Against the Humanoid Robot)

• Mitsuru Fujiwara (Ghost Talker’s Daydream by Saki Okuse and Sankichi Meguro)

• The Opera Ghost Agency is from Newman’s Angels of Music

• The Unnameables are from Newman’s stories “The Big Fish” and “Moon Moon Moon”

• Germany’s Lohmann Branch is named after Inspector Karl Lohmann, played by Otto Wernicke in M and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 

• Russia’s Night Watch (World of Watches series by Sergei Lukyanenko)

• Kogorō Akechi, the Boy Detectives Club, the Fiend with Twenty Faces, and the Black Lizard from Edogawa Rampo’s mystery novels

• Giant vampire turtle (Gamera)

• Kaname Kuran (Vampire Knight by Matsuri Hino)

• Subaru Sumiyagi (Subaru Sumeragi; Tokyo Babylon by Clamp)

• Kyoichi Kagenuma (Ryuhei Matsuda, Nightmare Detective and Nightmare Detective 2)

• Professor Brian O’Blivion (Jack Creley, Videodrome)

• Higo Yanagi (yōkai)

• Albert “Smiler” Watson is a conflation of the title character of the Sergeant Cork episode “The Case of Albert Watson, V.C.” with Smiler Washington from the TV movie Chips with Everything, both played by Ronald Lacey

• Kuchisake (yōkai)

• Rider Kuuga (Joe Odagiri, Kamen Rider Kuuga)

• Suzan Arashi is based on Susan Storm, aka the Invisible Girl, of the Marvel superteam the Fantastic Four

• Commander Hamish Bond (James Bond)

• Cousin Helen (Helen “Hallie” Takahama, aka Jolt, member of the Marvel superhero team the Thunderbolts)

• Tsunako Shiki (Sunako Kirishiki; Shiki by Fuyumi Ono)

• Cthulhu, Dagon, and Azathoth are from H. P. Lovecraft’s Mythos

• Lady Asaji Washizu (Isuzu Yamada) and Spider Forest are from the movie Throne of Blood

• Fray Sebastian and Kichijiro (Silence by Shūsaku Endō)

• O-Same (yōkai)

• Higanjima Island (Higanjima by Kōji Matsumoto)

• Heike Ziss is from Newman’s Drearcliff Grange School books

• Charlotte (Jennifer Ulrich, We Are the Night)

• Callie (Callie Webb; Parker Posey, For Your Consideration)

• Jennifer Jolie (Parker Posey, Scream 3)

• The movie The Hobbs End Horror is based on Sutter Cane’s novel of the same name in the movie In the Mouth of Madness

• Derek Leech (recurring evil media mogul in Newman’s work)

• The Broken Doll and Carleton Knowles are from The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School

• Olof Carlsen (The Space Vampires by Colin Wilson)

• Louise Teazle is from Newman’s novel An English Ghost Story

• Anthony Peak is an alias for the title character of the manga Lupin the Third by Monkey Punch

• Andrew A. Thomason is based on Thomas A. Anderson, aka Neo, Keanu Reeves’ character in the movie The Matrix and its sequels

• The Niide Clinic is named after Dr. Kyojō Niide, Toshiro Mifune’s character in Red Beard

• Tetch (Jervis Tetch, aka the Mad Hatter, one of Batman’s foes)

• Middle-aged, sad-faced American actor and younger woman with pink-tinged hair (Bob Harris and Charlotte; Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson, Lost in Translation)

• Takashi Kamata, aka DK (Brian Tee, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift)

• Kageyama (Akira Kageyama; Hayato Ichihara, Yakuza Apocalypse)

• Sergeant Kankichi (Ryotsu Kankichi; Kochikame by Osamu Akimoto)

• Officer Ota (Isao Ota; Patlabor by Masami Yuki)

• Officer Brenten and the puma girls (Charles Brenten, AnnaPuma, and UniPuma; Dominion by Masamune Shirow)

• Officer Nakajima (Ken Nakajima; You’re Under Arrest by Kōsuke Fujishima)

• Lady Oyotsu (yōkai)

• Charles Strickland (The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham)

• Asato Yamamura is a combination of Ai Asato from Kochikame with Sadako Yamamura from the Ring novel series by Koji Suzuki

• Sophie Fukami is from the anime Kado: The Right Answer 

• Dessert is from the movie Suicide Club 

• The Bronx Warriors are from the movie 1990: The Bronx Warriors

• The Baseball Furies are from the movie The Warriors

• de Boscherville (Erik the Opera Ghost; The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux)

• Anck-es-en-Amon (Zita Johann, The Mummy)

• Petrox Oil is from the 1976 remake of King Kong 

• The North Sea Jennifer disaster refers to the movie North Sea Hijack

• Sonja Blaue (Sonja Blue, monster-hunting vampire in novels by Nancy A. Collins)

• Oily Maniac Hair Tonic is named after the movie Oily Maniac 

• The Moth (Mothra, Japanese movie monster)

• The Pterror (Rodan, another cinematic monster)

• The Tri-Kappa (King Ghidorah, still another Japanese cinema monster)

• The Ferat automobile company is from the Czech film Ferat Vampire 

• Rex Mifune is better known as Racer X from the anime Speed Racer 

• Furano, the Frankenstein Girl (Keiko Furano; Eri Otoguro, Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl)

• Varanit Gorasu, the Indescribable Man, evokes the films Varan the Unbelievable and Gorath

• Aki Nijūhachi-gō is the title character of Katsuhiro Otomo’s manga Akira 

• Bokonism (Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut)

• Asa Vajda (Barbara Steele, Black Sunday)

• Herbert von Krolock (Iain Quarrier, Dance of the Vampires)

• Lester Shortlion (Lestat de Lioncourt; The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice)

• Angel de la Guardia (Ron Perlman, Cronos)

• Georgia Rae Drumgo, a conflation of Georgia Rae Mahoney from the television series Homicide: Life on the Street and Evelda Drumgo from the movie Hannibal, both played by Hazellle Goodman 

• Abura Sumashi (yōkai)

• Kasa-obake (yōkai)

• Perkin Murdleigh is based on Muttley from the cartoon Wacky Races 

• Mr. Omochi (Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb)

• Chesse Beru (Chesse Belle; Seraph of the End by Takaya Kagami and Yamato Yamamoto)

• Tsukamoto is meant to be the unnamed metal fetishist played by Shinya Tsukamoto in his film Tetsuo: The Iron Man

• The predator vampire that permanently shapeshifted into a lift in Amsterdam in the 1980s is a reference to the Dutch film De Lift

• Count Oblensky (Waldemar Wohlfahrt, The Horrible Sexy Vampire)

• Kah Pai Mei is a conflation of Kah from the movie The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires with Pai Mei from Chinese legend and film

• Sesshō Seki (yōkai)

• General Ichimonji (Hidetora Ichimonji; Tatsuya Nakadai, Ran)

• Mowgli of Seoni (The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling)

• The Blue Water Pendant is from the anime Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water; the Nemo Collection refers to Captain Nemo, who besides being from Jules Verne’s novels also appears in that series

• Munch’s Lady of the Shroud is named after Bram Stoker’s novel

• The Mausoleum is from Newman’s “Sorcerer Conjurer Wizard Witch”

• Wingman Paul Metcalf is better known as Captain Scarlet from the TV series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons; the Seraphs are based on the Angels from that series

• Wing Navigator Hayata (Shin Hayata; Susumu Kurobe, Ultraman)

• Dr. Devilers (Alain Delon, Shock Treatment [1973 film])

• Drusilla Zark (Juliet Landau, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel; the surname is derived from Juliet’s father Martin Landau’s villain in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode “The Bat Cave Affair”) 

• The Silver Sentinel is based on Klaatu’s flying saucer in the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still 

• The EvangeLions are named after the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion

• Wing Captain Gardner (Grant Gardner, aka Captain America; Dick Purcell, Captain America [1943 serial])

• The Loren Mansion is from the movie House on Haunted Hill 

• Kostaki (“The Pale-Faced Lady” by Alexandre Dumas)

• The Daughter of the Dragon (Fah Lo Suee, Dr. Fu Manchu’s daughter)

• The Ska-tastics are from the Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated episode “Dance of the Undead”

• Skerra Island is from Newman’s Diogenes Club story “Swellhead”

• An attractive archaeologist (Lara Croft, Tomb Raider)

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 of the Week

April 1923

THE HAUNTING OF DREARCLIFF GRANGE SCHOOL 

Drearcliff Grange School student Amy Thomsett, aka the Kentish Glory, and her fellow members of the Moth Club take part in the Great Game, an annual contest of skill between their school and others and must deal with the mysterious ghostly figure known as the Broken Doll. Appearing or mentioned are: Lucinda Tregellis-d’Aulney, aka the Aviatrix; Dr. Shade; Ariadne; Richard Cleaver, aka Clever Dick; the Diogenes Club; Janice Marsh; the Black Sow of Under-London; the Undertaking; Miss Violet “Fossil” Borrodale; Dennis Rattray, aka Blackfist; Maurice Wyvil; Moll Flanders; the Old Jago; Bert Stevens; Enoch Drebber; Lauriston Gardens; Jefferson Hope; Dr. Watson; the Splendid Six; Lord Piltdown; Jennifer God; Lord Leaves; Hans von Hellhund; Number 347, Piccadilly; Geoffrey Jeperson; Count DeVille; “Necro-nommi-con des Mortis”; Valmouth; the Hurstpierpoint Hotel; Sir Wilfrid Teazle; Mark Robarts’ A Counterblast to Agnosticism; Brichester; Colonel Clay; Sophy Kratides; Graustark; “a cove with either too many or too few names”; the Moriarty Mob; Sebastian Moran; Johnny Barlowe; the Opera Ghost Agency; Erik de Boscherville, aka the Phantom; Silver Blaze; Uncle Satt; Thomas Carnacki; the Mausoleum; the Royal North Surrey Regiment; Sir Boris de Bruin; the Department of Supplies; Sally Nikola’s dad; a Rolls-Royce ShadowShark; Colonel Zenf; Mr. John Bronze; the Angel Down Changeling; Queen Tera; the Mystic Maharajah; Lydia Marlowe; Anne Sercombe; Anne D’Arbanvilliers-Cleaver; Cassandra, Heather, and Priscilla Wilding; Thelma Guildmar; Giulietta Nefaria; Vera Claythorne; and Cunegonde Quive-Smith. 

Novel by Kim Newman, Titan Books, 2018. The Splendid Six, consisting of the Aviatrix, Clever Dick, Blackfist, Lord Piltdown, the Blue Streak, and the Mystic Maharajah, are from Newman’s Diogenes Club story “Clubland Heroes.” Hans von Hellhund is also from that story; an AU counterpart is mentioned in “Coastal City.” Dr. Shade is from Newman’s “The Original Dr. Shade.” Ariadne is from Newman’s Bad Dreams. The Diogenes Club and Sophy Kratides are from Doyle and Watson’s Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter.” Bert Stevens is from the Holmes story “The Adventure of the Norwood Builder.” Enoch Drebber, Lauriston Gardens, and Jefferson Hope are from Holmes’ first appearance, A Study in Scarlet. Colonel Sebastian Moran is Professor Moriarty’s lieutenant from “The Adventure of the Empty House.” Silver Blaze is from the Holmes tale “The Adventure of Silver Blaze.” The Undertaking is from the Diogenes Club stories “Angel Down, Sussex” and “Sorcerer Conjurer Wizard Witch.” The Angel Down Changeling is from the former story. The Mausoleum is from the latter story. Violet Borrodale is from Newman’s “Richard Riddle, Boy Detective in ‘The Case of the French Spy.’” Janice Marsh, a member of the Marsh family seen in H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow over Innsmouth,” is from Newman’s “The Big Fish” and “Another Fish Story.” The Black Sow of Under-London is the Beast of London from Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere. Maurice Wyvil is from William Harrison Ainsworth’s Old St. Paul's. Moll Flanders is the title character of Daniel Defoe’s novel. The Old Jago is from Arthur Morrison’s A Child of the Jago. “Jennifer God” is a reference to vampire Geneviève Dieudonné from the Diogenes Club stories, who also has a counterpart in the Anno Dracula Universe. Lord Leaves is from the Diogenes Club stories “Soho Golem" and “Cold Snap.” Number 347, Piccadilly was Dracula’s home in London in Bram Stoker’s novel. “Count DeVille” was the alias Dracula used to buy the house. Geoffrey Jeperson is the adoptive father of Richard Jeperson, a 1960s and 1970s agent of the Diogenes Club seen in Newman’s The Man from the Diogenes Club. Richard Jeperson drives a Rolls-Royce ShadowShark. “Necro-nommi-con des Mortis” is a reference to the Necronomicon Ex Mortis from the Evil Dead movies; the book appears under the variant name Necronomicon des Mortes in the Angel episode "Hell Bound." Valmouth is from Ronald Firbank’s novel of the same name. One of the characters in the book is Mrs. Eulalia Hurstpierpoint. Sir Wilfrid Teazle is an ancestor of Louise Magellan Teazle from Newman’s An English Ghost Story. Mark Robarts is from Anthony Trollope’s Framley Parsonage. A Counterblast to Agnosticism is from Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Brichester University is from Ramsey Campbell’s Cthulhu Mythos stories. Colonel Clay is from Grant Allen’s An African Millionaire. Graustark is a European kingdom in novels by George Barr McCutcheon. The “cove with either too many or too few names” is the Man with No Name from Sergio Leone’s films dubbed “the Dollars Trilogy”: A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Johnny Barlowe is from Ilya Surguchev and Frederick Albert Swan’s The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo. The Opera Ghost Agency is from Newman’s Angels of Music. Erik is from Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera. Uncle Satt and Sir Boris de Bruin are from the Diogenes Club story “The Gypsies in the Wood.” Thomas Carnacki is from William Hope Hodgson’s Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder. The Royal North Surrey Regiment is from A. E. W. Mason’s The Four Feathers. The Department of Supplies is from Newman’s Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the d’Urbervilles. Sally Nikola’s father is Guy Boothby’s villain Dr. Nikola. Colonel Zenf is from “Sorcerer Conjurer Wizard Witch” and “Cold Snap.” John Bronze is from Newman’s contributions to The Lovecraft Squad mosaic novel series, created by Stephen Jones. Queen Tera is from Stoker’s The Jewel of Seven Stars. Lydia Marlowe is from the Sherlock Holmes movie The Woman in Green. Anne (or Ann) Sercombe is the future wife of John le Carré’s spy George Smiley. Anne D’Arbanvilliers-Cleaver may be the sister of Clever Dick, whose aunt, Rebecca D’Arbanvilliers-Cleaver, appears in “The Gypsies in the Wood.” Cassandra, Heather, and Priscilla Wilding are likely related to Newman’s recurring character Heather Wilding. Thelma Guildmar is from the 1922 movie Thelma. Giulietta Nefaria, aka Whitney Frost, is better known as Madame Masque, a foe and onetime love interest of the Marvel Comics hero Iron Man. Vera Claythorne is from Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. Cunegonde Quive-Smith must be related to Major Quive-Smith from the movie Man Hunt. 

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 of the Week

Autumn 1898

GUIGNOL 

Erik's current Angels of Music (Kate Reed, Lady Yuki, and Clara Watson) are hired to bring an end to the Théâtre des Horreurs, whose gruesome plays may not be staged. Appearing or mentioned are: Henry Wilcox; the Diogenes Club; Jacques Hulot; La Vie Francaise; the Persian; Morpho; Berma; Phroso; Bertrand Caillet; Eugene Mortain; Charles Pradier; General Assolant; Père de Kern; Georges du Roy; Dr. Orloff; Gustav von Aschenbach; Madame Mandelip; Place Frollo; Max Valentin, aka Maximilian the Great; Janus Stark; Malita; the Marquis d’Amblezy-Sérac; Aristide Forestier; Les Vampires; the Suicide Club; Frédéric Larsan; Inspecteur Juve; Dr. Johannes; the Grand Vampire; Sultan the Gorilla; Rollo the Knife-Thrower; and “a strange figure...wearing the headdress and golden death-mask of a pharaoh.” 

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. Kate Reed, a “deleted” character from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, also appears in Newman’s Diogenes Club series, and has a counterpart in the Anno Dracula Universe. The Club is from Doyle and Watson’s “The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter.” Lady Yuki is Yuki Kashima, the title character of Kazuo Koike and Kazuo Kamimura’s manga Lady Snowblood. Clara and Eugene Mortain are from Octave Mirbeau’s novel Torture Garden. The surname Watson is derived from Pierre Chaine and André de Lorde's Grand Guignol play based on the book. Père de Kern is from Mirbeau’s Sébastien Roch. The Marquis d’Amblezy-Sérac is from Mirbeau’s Un Gentilhomme. Henry Wilcox is from E. M. Forster’s novel Howards End. Jacques Hulot is an ancestor of Monsieur Hulot, a character created and played by French comedian Jacques Tati. La Vie Francaise and Georges du Roy are from Guy de Maupassant’s novel Bel-Ami. Morpho and Dr. Orloff are from the movie The Awful Dr. Orloff. Berma is from Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. Phroso is an ancestor of Phroso the clown from Tod Browning’s film Freaks. Madame Mandelip and Malita are from Browning’s movie The Devil-Doll. Bertrand Caillet is from Guy Endore’s The Werewolf of Paris. Charles Pradier is from Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre’s Fantômas novel Le Magistrat Cambrioleur. Inspecteur Juve is Fantômas’ archenemy. General Assolant is from Humphrey Cobb’s novel Paths of Glory. Gustav von Aschenbach is from Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice. Place Frollo is named after Monseigneur Claude Frollo from Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Valentin is from the movie Le Jour Sè Leve; his first name and stage name are derived from his equivalent in the American remake, The Long Night. Janus Stark is a Victorian escape artist and crimefighter who appeared in the British comics Smash and Valiant. Aristide Forestier is from Cole Porter’s musical Can-Can. Les Vampires are from Louis Feuillade’s titular serial. The Grand Vampire is the title of the gang’s leader. The Suicide Club is from Robert Louis Stevenson’s short story of the same name. Frédéric Larsan is the alias used by Rouletabille’s father, the criminal Ballmeyer, in Gaston Leroux’s The Mystery of the Yellow Room. Dr. Johannes is from J.-K. Huysmans’ Là-Bas. Sultan the Gorilla is from the movie Phantom of the Rue Morgue. Rollo the Knife-Thrower is from the movie Mad Love. The “strange figure...wearing the headdress and golden death-mask of a pharaoh” is a reference to the title character of the serial Belphégor. However, Simone Desroches, the villain's alter ego, was born in 1902, so there must have been an earlier wearer of the mask. 

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: Something More Than Night

 

Are you a fan of Raymond Chandler and/or Boris Karloff?

Then you'll love this novel, which has them teaming up to solve a mystery, and also has connections to other books by Kim Newman!

For more information, consult my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which is going 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 of the Week

Autumn 1922-Winter 1923 

THE SECRETS OF DREARCLIFF GRANGE SCHOOL 

Amy Thomsett, a young girl with the ability to levitate both herself and other people and objects, is enrolled at the Drearcliff Grange School, where she finds that she is not the only student with an Unusual Talent. Forming a secret society called the Moth Club with her friends and taking the alias of the Kentish Glory, she must thwart a takeover of the school by Antoinette Rowley Rayne and her followers, the Black Skirts. Appearing or mentioned are: Miss Violet "Fossil" Borrodale; Lucinda Tregellis d’Aulney, aka the Aviatrix; Irene Dobson; Luna Bartendale; the book My Nine Nights in a Harem; Captain Dennis Rattray, aka Blackfist; the Blue Streak; Lord Piltdown; Ticia Frump; Miss Catriona Kaye; Hans von Hellhund, the Demon Ace; Dr. Shade; night-gaunts; Sally Nikola’s father, the Fifth Most Dangerous Man in the World; Janice Marsh; Singapore Charlie’s; the Scarlet Pimpernel; Zorro; Shrewsbury College; the Old Ones; the Deep Ones; Anthony Zenith; the Mausoleum; Egdon Heath; Isidore Persano and his Worm Unknown to Science; Mr. Roderick Spode; the Mystic Maharajah; Innsmouth, Massachusetts; the Ghidorah, a Black Skirt triad; a rhedosaurus; the Diogenes Club; the Esoteric Order of Dagon; the Black Quorum; the Blood Banner Society; the movie She-Strangler of Shanghai; Box Brothers Bank; Dr. Mabuse; Captain Geoffrey Jeperson; Haghi; the Onion Men; Olivia Gibberne; Di’en Ching; Winnerden Flats; Moria Kratides; the Hydes of March; Buggleskelly; the Duel of the Seven Stars; Ariadne; Hilda Courtney; Lydia Marlowe; Anne Sercombe; Anne D’Arbanvilliers-Cleaver; Cassandra, Heather, and Priscilla Wilding; Susan Foreman; Alraune Ten Brincken; Vera Claythorne; Cunegonde Quive-Smith; and Elva Kyle. 

Novel by Kim Newman, Titan Books, 2015. Violet Borrodale is from Newman’s “Richard Riddle, Boy Detective in 'The Case of the French Spy’.” The Splendid Six, whose members include the Aviatrix, Blackfist, the Blue Streak, Lord Piltdown, and the Mystic Maharajah, are from Newman’s Diogenes Club story “Clubland Heroes.” Hans von Hellhund is from “Clubland Heroes”; an AU version is mentioned in “Coastal City.” Irene Dobson is from Newman’s story “Is There Anybody There?” Luna Bartendale is from Jessie Douglas Kerruish’s novel The Undying Monster. My Nine Nights in a Harem is mentioned in several of Newman’s works. Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the d’Urbervilles reveals that it was authored by Colonel Sebastian Moran. Ticia Frump is the future Morticia Addams from Charles Addams’ comic strip The Addams Family and subsequent TV and movie spin-offs; Frump is Morticia’s maiden name. Catriona Kaye is from the Diogenes Club tales. The Club itself is from Doyle and Watson’s Sherlock Holmes tale “The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter,” which features Sophy Kratides, Moria Kratides’ mother. Dr. Shade is from Newman’s “The Original Dr. Shade.” Night-gaunts and the Old Ones are from H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. Sally Nikola's father is Guy Boothby’s villain Dr. Antonio Nikola. Janice Marsh, a member of the Marsh family of Innsmouth, Massachusetts that has interbred with the aquatic Deep Ones in Lovecraft’s “The Shadow over Innsmouth,” is from Newman’s “The Big Fish” and “Another Fish Story.” She-Strangler of Shanghai is from “The Big Fish.” The Esoteric Order of Dagon is from Lovecraft’s story. Singapore Charlie’s is from Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu novels. The Scarlet Pimpernel and Zorro need no introduction. Shrewsbury College is from Dorothy L. Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey novel Gaudy Night. Anthony Zenith is Zenith the Albino, detective Sexton Blake’s archenemy. Blake went up against the Black Quorum in the serial Mystery of No. 13 Caversham Square by Pierre Quiroule. The League of the Onion Men battled Blake in a storyline by Gwyn Evans. The Mausoleum is from the Diogenes Club tale “Sorcerer Conjurer Wizard Witch.” Egdon Heath is from Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native and Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall. Isidore (originally Isadora) Persano and the worm unknown to science are from the Holmes story “The Problem of Thor Bridge.” Roderick Spode is from P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves books. The Ghidorah is named after the monster from the Godzilla film Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster. Since the massive destruction of public property in Japan seen in most Godzilla films is not compatible with the CU, Godzilla and Ghidorah’s rampages must have been fewer, more isolated, and less destructive than the movies depicted. The rhedosaurus is from the movie The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. The Blood Banner Society is from Newman’s contributions (written as Jack Yeovil) to the novel series based on the miniature wargame Dark Futures. That game takes place in a universe that diverged from ours in 1960, so this must be the CU version of the Society. Box Brothers Bank is from Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the d’Urbervilles. Dr. Mabuse is from Norbert Jacques’ novels, as well as a series of films. Captain Geoffrey Jeperson is the adoptive father of Richard Jeperson, the title character of Newman’s collection The Man from the Diogenes Club. Haghi is from Fritz Lang’s film Spione. Olivia Gibberne is probably related to Professor Gibberne from H. G. Wells’ “The New Accelerator.” Dien Ch’ing is a CU version of the character from Newman’s Warhammer novel Beasts in Velvet, written under the Yeovil pseudonym. Winnerden Flats is from the British science fiction television serial Quatermass II. The Hydes of March are likely connected to Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Buggleskelly is from the movie Oh, Mr. Porter! The Duel of the Seven Stars refers to Newman’s serial novella Seven Stars. The Seven Stars themselves are originally from Bram Stoker’s The Jewel of Seven Stars. Ariadne is from Newman’s novel Bad Dreams. Hilda Courtney is from the movie Dressed to Kill, while Lydia Marlowe is from The Woman in Green; both films star Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. Anne Sercombe is British spy George Smiley’s wife in John le Carré’s spy novels, though there her first name is spelled “Ann.” Anne D’Arbanvilliers-Cleaver is possibly the sister of Richard “Clever Dick” Cleaver, the final member of the Splendid Six, whose aunt Rebecca D’Arbanvilliers appears in the Diogenes Club story “The Gypsies in the Wood.” Cassandra, Heather, and Priscilla Wilding are presumably related to Heather Wilding from Newman’s “The Serial Murders,” “Going to Series,” The Quorum, and “Cold Snap.” Susan Foreman is Doctor Who’s granddaughter. Alraune Ten Brincken is from Hanns Heinz Ewers’ Alraune. Vera Claythorne is from Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. Cunegonde Quive-Smith is likely related to Major Quive-Smith from the movie Man Hunt. Elva Kyle may be related to Selina Kyle, the original Batman’s foe (and later second wife) the Catwoman, who once used the alias “Elva Barr.” 

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! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2 by Win Scott Eckert!

Crossover of the Week

Autumn 1887 LES VAMPIRES DE PARIS Erik’s Angels of Music (La Marmoset, Sophy Kratides and Unorna) investigate a murder that appears to be the work of a vampire. Appearing or mentioned are: Montsou; Sybil Vane; Mr. Calhoun; Harold Latimer; Wilson Kemp; Sherlock Holmes; Paul Kratides; Scapinelli; Keyork Arabian; the power to cloud men’s minds in the mountain lamaseries of Tibet; strange orchids from the mangrove swamps of the Andaman Islands; the Scroll of Thoth; the Shout; Irene Adler; Trilby O’Ferrall; Christine Daaé; Olympia; Svengali; the Persian; Les Vampires; the Grand Vampire; Vénénos; the Hôtel du Libre Echange; Monsieur Morillon; Frederick Hohner; Ayda Heidari; Count Camille de Rosillon; Pontevedro; Dr. Geneviève Dieudonné; Inspector Raoul d’Aubert; the Black Coats; Sesostris, the Sorceress of Ecbatana; the lost treasure of Monte Cristo; Anatole Garron; Giovanni Jones; Monsieur Rémy; Dorabella; Clarimonde; Geraldine; the Count; Des Esseintes; the Marquis de Coulteray; Joséphine Balsamo; Gravelle; Dr. Michel Falke; Mircalla Karnstein; Abraham Van Helsing; the Princess Addhema; Firmin Richard; Jean Macquart; Simon Buquet; Bernard Hichcock; Patou; Inspecteur Legris; Monsieur Moncharmin; Jacques Rival; Henri Paillardin; Lord Ruthven; Sir Francis Varney; Ezzelin von Klatka; Inspecteur Bec; Chief Magistrate Barrière; and John Seward. Story by Kim Newman in Angels of Music, Titan Books, 2016. Erik, Christine Daaé, the Persian, Monsieur Rémy, Firmin Richard, and Armand Moncharmin are from Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera. La Marmoset and Mr. Calhoun are from Albert W. Aiken’s story “La Marmoset, the Detective Queen; or, the Lost Heir of Morel.” Sophy Kratides and her brother Paul, Harold Latimer, and Wilson Kemp are from Doyle and Watson’s Sherlock Holmes tale “The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter.” Irene Adler is from the Holmes story “A Scandal in Bohemia.” Ayda Heidari will later marry Bob Ferguson, as seen in “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire.” Unorna and Keyork Arabian are from F. Marion Crawford’s The Witch of Prague. Montsou is from Émile Zola’s novel Germinal. Jean Macquart is from Zola’s La Terre. Sybil Vane is from Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. Scapinelli is from the movie The Student of Prague. The power to cloud men’s minds was learned in Tibet by the shadowy vigilante. Strange orchids from the mangrove swamps of the Andaman Islands are from H. G. Wells’ “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid.” The Scroll of Thoth is from the 1932 film The Mummy. The Shout is from the British horror film of the same name. Trilby O’Ferrall and Svengali are from George du Maurier’s Trilby. Olympia is from Jacques Offenbach’s opera Tales of Hoffmann. Les Vampires, the Grand Vampire, and Vénénos are from the film serial Les Vampires. The Hôtel du Libre Echange is from Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallières’ play of the same name, as are Bastien Morillon and Henri Paillardin. Frederick Hohner is from the movie The Climax. Count Camille de Rosillon and Pontevedro are from Franz Lehár’s operetta The Merry Widow. Geneviève Dieudonné is from Newman’s Diogenes Club series and has a counterpart in the Anno Dracula Universe. Inspector Raoul d'Aubert and Anatole Garron are from the 1943 film version of The Phantom of the Opera. Simon Buquet is from the 1925 silent version of the novel. The Black Coats are from Paul Féval’s novels. The Princess Addhema is from Féval’s The Vampire Countess. Sesostris, the Sorceress of Ecbatana is from Aldous Huxley’s Crome Yellow. The lost treasure of Monte Cristo is from Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo. Giovanni Jones is from the Bugs Bunny cartoon “Long-Haired Hair”; this must be his CU counterpart. Dorabella is the title character of an episode of the 1970s British television series Supernatural. Clarimonde is from Théophile Gautier’s “La Morte Amoureuse.” Geraldine is from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “Christabel.” Here, the three female vampires are the Brides of Count Dracula. This story takes place during the events of Stoker’s novel. Abraham Van Helsing and John Seward are from Dracula. Professor Madame Saartje Van Helsing must be Abraham’s second wife; his first, Elizabeth, died in circumstances recounted in the Marvel Comics black-and-white magazine Dracula Lives! Jean des Esseintes is from J.-K. Huysmans’ A Rebours. The Marquis de Coulteray is from Gaston Leroux’s The Bloody Puppet. Joséphine Balsamo is from Maurice Leblanc’s Arsène Lupin novels. Gravelle is from the movie Charlie Chan at the Opera. Dr. Falke is from Johann Strauss II’s operetta Die Fledermaus. The first name Michel is derived from the 1946 film version of the operetta. Mircalla Karnstein is from J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla.” Bernard Hichcock is from the movie The Horrible Dr. Hichcock. Patou, a gendarme, is an ancestor of gendarme Nestor Patou from Marguerite Monnot and Alexandre Breffort’s musical Irma la Douce. Inspecteur Legris is from the movie The Man Who Could Cheat Death. Jacques Rival is from Guy de Maupassant’s Bel-Ami. Lord Ruthven is from John Polidori’s “The Vampyre.” Sir Francis Varney is from James Malcolm Rymer’s Varney the Vampire. Ezzelin von Klatka is from Anonymous’ story “The Mysterious Stranger.” Inspecteur Bec is from the 1986 TV movie adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” Paul Barrière is from Cole Porter’s musical Can-Can.

This write-up is one of hundreds included in my forthcoming book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by the fine folks at Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's books Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Covers: Anno Dracula

 

Are you a fan of Kim Newman's alternate history vampire series Anno Dracula?

Then you'll love these additions to that series, which will be covered in an appendix entitled "The Anno Dracula Universe and Character Guide" in my forthcoming book Crossovers Expanded Vol. 3, to be published by Meteor House!

Crossover of the Week

Early January 1891

THE GREEK INVERTEBRATE

Professor Moriarty and Colonel Moran are asked by the Professor’s brother, Colonel James Moriarty, to ignore a summons from the third Moriarty brother, stationmaster James. The Professor and Moran defy his orders, and become involved with espionage and a new machine with which to wage war. Appearing or mentioned are: Sir Augustus Moran; the Club of the Damned; the Mausoleum Club; a chandelier falling on the audience of the Paris Opera during the jewel song from Faust; Fal Vale Junction; Greyfriars; the kuripuri; the Grand Vampire; Les Vampires; a German rival of Moriarty’s who sometimes assumes the guise of “a shock-haired, stooped alienist with mesmeric eyes”; Irma Vep; Palliser; Nevil Airey Stent; Fred Porlock; the Lord of Strange Deaths; R. G. Sanders; Eduardo Lucas; Thomas Carnacki; Cursitor Doone; Monsieur Sabin; Ilse von Hoffmansthal, aka Madame Gabrielle Valladon; Flaxman Low; Hugo Oberstein; Sophy Kratides; Malilella of the Stiletto; Irene Adler; Lady Yuki Kashima; Mad Margaret Trelawny; Dr. Syn; Partington; Paul Finglemore, alias Colonel Clay; and Ram Singh.

Short story by Colonel Sebastian Moran, edited by Kim Newman in Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the d’Urbervilles, Titan Books, 2011. Professor Moriarty, Colonel Moran, and Irene Adler are from Doyle and Watson’s Sherlock Holmes stories. Colonel Moriarty is mentioned in “The Final Problem.” Stationmaster Moriarty and Fred Porlock are from The Valley of Fear. Sir Augustus Moran, the Colonel’s father, is mentioned in “The Adventure of the Empty House.” Eduardo Lucas is from the Holmes story “The Adventure of the Second Stain”; since Lucas died in that story, which Baring-Gould has dated to October 1886, the Lucas in Newman’s story must be a cousin of Doyle’s character who is also involved in espionage. Hugo Oberstein is mentioned in both “The Adventure of the Second Stain” and “The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans,” which is also the source of Partington. Sophy Kratides is from the Holmes tale “The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter.” The Club of the Damned is from the 1970s British television series Supernatural. The Mausoleum Club is from the 1980s BBC radio comedy series Tales from the Mausoleum Club. The chandelier falling on the audience of the Paris Opera during the jewel song from Faust is a reference to The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. Fal Vale Junction is from Arnold Ridley’s play The Ghost Train. Greyfriars is the school attended by Billy Bunter in stories written by Charles Hamilton under the pen name Frank Richards. The kuripuri (originally spelled curupuri) is from Doyle’s novel The Lost World. Les Vampires are from Louis Feuillade’s film serial of the same name, as are their leader, the Grand Vampire, and Irma Vep. This Grand Vampire’s predecessor, who appeared in “The Adventure of the Six Maledictions,” must be the one murdered by Erik, the Phantom of the Opera, in 1889, as mentioned in Josh Reynolds’ Phileas Fogg and the War of Shadows. Rick Lai’s “All Predators Great and Small” has Irma as a child in 1895; perhaps the alias “Irma Vep” is used by whoever serves as Les Vampires’ primary female operative at any given time. This is likely the same Irma seen in Phileas Fogg and the War of Shadows. Moriarty’s German rival is Dr. Mabuse, the master criminal who appeared in fiction by Norbert Jacques and three films directed by Fritz Lang. Palliser is Plantagenet Palliser, the protagonist of a series of novels by Anthony Trollope. The Palliser novels are connected to the Chronicles of Barsetshire series, as well as several non-series novels by Trollope. Stent is from H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds. The Lord of Strange Deaths is Fu Manchu. R. G. Sanders is Edgar Wallace’s Sanders of the River. Sanders and another of Wallace’s characters, Lieutenant Bones, appear in each other’s series. Thomas Carnacki, “the Ghost-Finder,” was created by William Hope Hodgson. Cursitor Doone’s name is meant to evoke the British comic book character Cursitor Doom. Monsieur Sabin is from E. Phillips Oppenheim’s novels Mysterious Mister Sabin and The Yellow Crayon. Ilse Von Hoffmansthal (originally spelled without the second “h”), aka Gabrielle Valladon, is from Billy Wilder’s film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. Flaxman Low is from the collection Ghosts; Being the Experiences of Flaxman Low, by “E. and H. Heron” (Hesketh V. Prichard and Kate O’Brien Ryall Prichard). Malilella (usually spelled without the second “l”) is from Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s opera The Jewels of the Madonna. Lady Yuki Kashima is better known as the title character of Kazuo Koike and Kazuo Kamimura’s manga Lady Snowblood. Margaret Trelawny is from Bram Stoker’s The Jewel of Seven Stars. Dr. Syn is from novels by Russell Thorndike. Paul Finglemore, aka Colonel Clay, is from Grant Allen’s An African Millionaire. Ram Singh is from the film Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon. Several details given about the Moriarty family in this story contradict their established CU history: the Colonel is younger than the Professor, the father of all three brothers was named James, and the Professor implicitly killed his own parents. Moriarty must have had an ulterior motive for lying to Moran.