Are you a fan of L. Frank Baum's Oz books?
Then you'll love this episode of Supernatural featuring one of several different versions of Oz that CU characters have visited!
For more information, please read my books Crossovers Expanded Vols. 1 and 2. These books, which will debut at the Meteor House booth at FarmerCon/PulpFest in Columbus, OH on July 21-24, are AUTHORIZED companions to Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Vols. 1 and 2 by Win Scott Eckert. Win provided the foreword to Vol. 1, and he and I will be at the convention signing copies, as will William Patrick Maynard, author of the foreword for Vol. 2, and Keith Howell, cover artist for both volumes.
John
Taylor is hired to investigate a singer known as the Nightingale, whose singing
inspires suicide. Appearing or mentioned are: a new edition of The King in Yellow (a play from Robert W. Chambers’ book of the same
name, which was incorporated into the Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft); the password “Swordfish”
to get into a nightclub (the password to a speakeasy in the Marx Bros.
film Horse Feathers); lots of monkeys doing manual labor, some of whom still
have their wings (from L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz); combat magicians (a reference to Warren Ellis’ comic book Gravel); Nicholas Hob (from Green’s book Drinking Midnight Wine); miller medallions (from the comic book Grimjack); Julien
Advent, the timelost Victorian Adventurer (meant to be Adam Adamant from the BBC TV series Adam Adamant Lives!); phasers and photon torpedoes (from Star Trek); and
the Murder Masque (said to be the villain responsible for Julien
Advent becoming timelost, which means he is intended to be the Face, the main
villain from Adam
Adamant Lives!).
