Crossover Covers: Billy Summers

 

Are you a Stephen King fan?

Then you'll love this novel, which has ties to several of his other works, as well as his daughter-in-law Kelly Braffet's novel Save Yourself!

For more information, be sure to purchase a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! All three books are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Nightblood

 

A vampire entombed beneath Isherwood, Indiana for 75 years is released, and begins creating its own vampire army from the townsfolk. Wandering monster hunter and Vietnam veteran Chris Stiles steps in to end the menace. Stiles has fought vampires in New Orleans, California, and Maine. Grady Hendrix’s introduction to the 2019 Valancourt Books edition explains the sources of these references. The New Orleans reference is an allusion to Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles. The California reference evokes Robert R. McCammon’s They Thirst. Maine refers to Stephen King’s ’Salem’s Lot.

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 Movie Poster: A Few Good Men

 

Are you a Stephen King fan?

Then you may enjoy this film by Rob Reiner, which has an appearance by a book by the protagonist of King's novel Misery, which Reiner previously adapted!

For more information, be sure to pick up a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when it is 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

July 20, 1963

THE COLOR OUT IN SPACE 

American astronaut Magnolia Jones comes to Arkham, Northumberland in 1963 at the request of Human Protection League (HPL) agent and Women’s Royal Air Force member Mabel Peabody for a space mission to rescue Yuri Gagarin, who is being menaced by a member of the Colour Out of Space’s race. Also appearing or mentioned are: Tarooma; Dr. Maxwell Edison Gardner; Dirk McQuickly; the British Experimental Rocket Group; the Q-I, 1953; the M-76, 1956; the Q-II, 1958; Flasheart; Prof Q; Lonsdale College, Oxford; “tekeli-li!”; the magnetic anomalies in Tycho and Olduvai Gorge; Doktor Merkwürdigliebe; Zellaby; the Midwich changelings incident; an “Inventor”; Fendelman Industries; a ship from Mars that crashed to Earth under modern London five million years ago; Haven, Maine; Ivor Dare; Harriman Nelson; the “Saliva Tree Incursion” at Cottersall, Norfolk, England, in 1896; Gizhinsk; the SSRN Seaview; Captain Crane; and Peabody’s niece Jocelyn. 

Short story by Stephen Baxter in The Lovecraft Squad: Waiting, Pegasus Books, 2017. Magnolia Jones is an ancestor of the character of the same name (aka Melody Angel) from the television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, which takes place in a potential future for the CU. Tarooma and the Q-I are references to the British science fiction television serial The Quatermass Experiment. Dr. Bernard Quatermass is the head of the British Experimental Rocket Group. The Q-II and the ship from Mars that crashed to Earth under modern London five million years ago refer to Quatermass and the Pit. Dr. Maxwell Edison Gardner is Maxwell Edison from the Beatles’ song “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,” revealed here to be a descendant of Nahum Gardner from H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space.” Dirk McQuickly is the Paul McCartney stand-in in the Beatles parody the Rutles, first seen in the television series Rutland Weekend Television. The M-76 is from No Man Friday by Rex Gordon. Lord Flasheart is from the Blackadder Goes Forth episode “Private Plane.” Lonsdale College, Oxford is from the television series Inspector Morse, based on Colin Dexter’s novels. “Tekeli-li!” is a phrase from Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, later used by Lovecraft in “At the Mountains of Madness.” The magnetic anomalies in Tycho and the Olduvai Gorge are from Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, which must be an AU, although elements of it (or counterparts thereof) have been referenced in several CU works. Doktor Merkwürdigliebe is the original name of the title character of the movie Dr. Strangelove, which ends with all of humanity being wiped out in a nuclear conflagration. However, Emmanuel Gorlier’s “A Present for Hitler” establishes that Merkwürdigliebe has a CU counterpart. Gordon Zellaby, Midwich, the Inventor, and Gizhinsk are from John Wyndham’s The Midwich Cuckoos. Fendelman Industries is from the Doctor Who serial “Image of the Fendahl.” Haven, Maine is from Stephen King’s The Tommyknockers. Ivor Dare and Professor Jocelyn Mabel Peabody are from the British science fiction comic book Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future, which takes place in the then-future of the 1990s, in a world where travel to and from other worlds is common. These versions of Ivor and Jocelyn must be CU counterparts to the ones from the comic. Admiral Harriman Nelson, the SSRN Seaview, and Captain Lee Crane are from the TV series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, which was set in the then-future of the 1970s. These must be the CU versions of the characters and ship from the show. The Saliva Tree Incursion is from Brian Aldiss’ The Saliva Tree. 

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 Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Lisey's Story

 

Appearing or mentioned are Castle Rock; Deep Cut Road; Gilead; “Bool! The end”; Derry; Michael Noonan; Dark Score Lake; Norris Ridgewick; Andy Clutterbuck; Kingdom; Tashmore Pond; Shooter’s Knob, Tennessee; Cleaves Mills; Harlow; Motton; and a Nite-Owl store. Castle Rock, Derry, Harlow, and Motton are recurring Maine towns in King’s fiction. Deep Cut Road is a CU version of the landmark from Dreamcatcher, which takes place in an AU. Gilead and the phrase “Bool! The end” are from the Dark Tower books, once again confirming Mid-World as an alternate reality to the CU. Michael Noonan and Dark Score Lake are from Bag of Bones. Norris Ridgewick is from The Dark Half, Needful Things, Gerald’s Game, and Bag of Bones. Andy Clutterbuck is from The Dark Half, Needful Things, and “It Grows on You.” Kingdom Hospital is from the television miniseries Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital. Tashmore Pond is from Firestarter. Shooter’s Knob, Tennessee is from “Secret Window, Secret Garden.” Cleaves Mills is from The Dead Zone. The Nite-Owl store is mentioned in a few of King’s works.

This novel is one of hundreds of crossovers covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! Like its predecessors, this volume is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover of the Week

Autumn 2016

GUIDED TOURS OF FAMOUS SECRET PLACES 

A guide leads a tour group around Paris as part of a magic working, beginning at the Rue Morgue. The members of the tour group are from Arkham, Brichester, Derry, Ingersham, Medicine Man, Mud Creek, and Harrisonville. The first stop is the L’Épi-Scié Tavern, followed by a mansion on the Rue Thérèse. De Castries taught the guide that silver and abstract designs kept his enemies away. The mansion was, and perhaps still is, the meeting place of the Habits Noirs, or the Black Coats in English. The guide lists secret societies that have manipulated humanity throughout history, including the Black Coats, the Si-Fan, the Illuminati, the Shin Tan, the Brotherhood of the Seven Kings, the Black Lodge, and the Power House. The Mona Lisa was stolen twice, the first time by Arsène Lupin, using a secret passageway also used by the notorious Belphégor, also known as the Phantom of the Louvre. Other secret passages in Paris include the room in the Dragon Volant and the passages used by Erik under the Opera House. The guide makes the Voorish Sign and takes the group through the Room of the Barbarous Gods, which includes giant stone statues of the Serpent-Men of Valusia and a black idol from the castle of Joiry. Escaping from the Louvre through the sewers, and feeling like Jean Valjean in the process, the guide and his group resurface not far from the Court of the Dragon. An imitator of Erik battled Lupin’s grandson in the '60s. The next stop after the Opera House is the Rue d’Auseil. The Hidden Places, parts of the world that have been separated from the normal world by powers unknown, include St. Beregonne’s Lane in Hamburg, the cities of Selene and Xebico, the land of Lilliput, and the parts of the Sargasso that Hodgson wrote about. They should not be confused with journeys to other worlds like those of Randolph Carter or the crew of the Mainz Psalter. Occasionally, a person like Erich Zann will find their way into the Rue d’Auseil. A gaping hole in the sky leads into the realm of Azathoth. The guide cries out words in the old tongue of R’lyeh. The man from Mud Creek invokes Cthulhu and Dagon, while the man from Derry sings of the Black Goat of the Wood with a Thousand Young. 

Short story by Matthew Ilseman in Tales of the Shadowmen Volume 14: Coup de Grace, Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier, eds., Black Coat Press, 2017; reprinted in French in Les Compagnons de l’Ombre (Tome 24), Jean-Marc Lofficier, ed., Rivière Blanche, 2018. The Rue Morgue is from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” Arkham, Massachusetts is the setting of many of H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos tales. Brichester is a town in the Severn Valley in Ramsey Campbell’s contributions to the Mythos. Derry is a recurring setting in the works of Stephen King. Ingersham is from Jean Ray’s The City of Unspeakable Fear. The town of Medicine Man is from Gene Wolfe’s The Sorcerer’s House. Mud Creek, Texas is the setting of many works by Joe R. Lansdale. Harrisonville, New Jersey is the home of Seabury Quinn’s occult detective Dr. Jules de Grandin. The L’Épi-Scié tavern and the mansion on the Rue Thérèse are from Paul Féval’s novels about the crime cartel known as the Black Coats. Thibaut de Castries is from Fritz Leiber’s Our Lady of Darkness. The Si-Fan is the society controlled by Sax Rohmer’s Dr. Fu Manchu. The Illuminati is a historical group, but the reference here is specifically to Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson’s The Illuminatus! Trilogy. The Shin Tan is led by Monsieur Ming, the archenemy of Henri Vernes’ hero Bob Morane. The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings is from L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace’s book of the same name. The Black Lodge is from Talbot Mundy’s Jimgrim novel The Devil’s Guard, as well as the television series Twin Peaks and Twin Peaks: The Return. The Power House (aka Krafthaus) is from John Buchan’s The Power House. Arsène Lupin is Maurice Leblanc’s gentleman thief. Belphégor is from Arthur Bernède’s titular novel and serial, as is the Room of the Barbarous Gods. The Dragon Volant is from the story “The Room in the Dragon Volant,” included in J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s In a Glass Darkly. Erik is the title character of Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera. The Voorish Sign is from Lovecraft’s “The Dunwich Horror.” The Serpent-Men of Valusia are from Robert E. Howard’s Kull stories. Joiry is from C. L. Moore’s tales of Jirel of Joiry. Jean Valjean is from Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables. The Court of the Dragon is from Robert W. Chambers’ “In the Court of the Dragon,” included in The King in Yellow. Arsène Lupin’s grandson encountered an Erik-like villain in “Vissi d’arte, Vissi d’amore,” an episode of the anime Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine. The Rue d’Auseil and Erich Zann are from Lovecraft’s “The Music of Erich Zann.” St. Beregonne’s Lane is from Jean Ray’s “The Shadowy Street.” Selene is from Féval’s Vampire City. Xebico is from H. F. Arnold’s “The Night Wire.” Lilliput is from Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. The Sargasso reference is to William Hope Hodgson’s Sargasso Sea stories. Randolph Carter is from Lovecraft’s Dream Cycle. The Mainz Psalter is from Jean Ray’s titular story. Azathoth is one of Lovecraft’s Outer Gods. R’lyeh is the sunken city where a slumbering Cthulhu is imprisoned. Dagon is from Lovecraft’s “Dagon” and “The Shadow over Innsmouth.” The Black Goat of the Wood with a Thousand Young is Lovecraft’s Great Old One Shub-Niggurath. 

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 Movie Poster: Almost Human

 

Mark Fisher, who was abducted by aliens two years ago, returns to his hometown of Patten, Maine and begins killing people. Mark first reappears in the nearby town of Derry. Derry, Maine is a recurring town in Stephen King’s fiction. 

This crossover is one of hundreds included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3! 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: Race to Death

 

Are you a fan of the TV series Murder, She Wrote?

Then you'll love this episode, which refers to Stephen King's Shawshank Prison as a real place!

For more details, check out 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 Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Basketful of Heads

 

In September 1983, four inmates from Shawshank Prison on a work detail escape. Shawshank Prison is from “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” and other works by write Joe Hill’s father Stephen King.

This crossover 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 Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover TV Episode: Love Boat

 

In this episode of NCIS, the agents are looking for the murderer of a Lieutenant aboard a destroyer. The victim’s cousin is from Derry, Maine, a town from the connected works of Stephen King. 

This crossover is one of hundreds discussed in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be released by Meteor House! Like the first two volumes released in 2016, this one is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's books Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2, published by Black Coat Press in 2010!

Crossover TV Episode: Mr. Scratch

 

Are you a fan of Stephen King's works?

Then you may enjoy this episode of the TV series Criminal Minds which mentions King's recurring town of Derry, Maine!

For more details, see my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House! As with the first two volumes, this latest one is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Crossover Cover: Pickman's Other Model (1929)

This anthology includes the story “Pickman's Other Model (1929)” by Caitlín R. Kiernan. The narrator, a Mr. Blackman, says of actress Vera Endecott, who modeled nude for Richard Upton Pickman, “Later, I would come to recognize some commonality between her face and those of such movie ‘vamps’ and femme fatales as Theda Bara, Eva Galli, Musidora, and, in particular, Pola Negri.” Eva Galli is from Peter Straub’s novel Ghost Story. Much of Straub's work is connected. For instance Straub and Stephen King's novel Black House, which also has connections to King's other works, mentions the town of Arden, WI from Straub's If You Could See Me Now, as well as Don Wanderley (or Wanderly), a character from Ghost Story.

Crossover Cover: The Difference a Day Makes

John Taylor and Dead Boy help an ordinary woman figure out why and how she came to be in the Nightside, and also try to reunite her with her husband. Appearing or mentioned are: the Maltese Falcon (from Dashiell Hammett’s private eye novel of the same name); Something from a Black Lagoon (a reference to the Universal horror film Creature from the Black Lagoon); one of Frankenstein’s female creations (from Mary Shelley's novels and its various sequels and adaptations); knockoff Hyde formula (from Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde); a lipstick-red Plymouth Fury with a dead man grinning at the wheel (the titular car from Stephen King’s novel Christine); a great black beauty of a car, driven by an Oriental in black leathers, and a man in the back in a green face mask and a snap-brimmed hat (the Green Hornet and Kato, with this particular pair probably being Paul Reid and Kono Kato, who began working together in 1993); and worms from the earth (a reference to Robert E. Howard’s Bran Mak Morn story “Worms of the Earth.”)

Crossover of the Week

Today marks my 700th post on this blog. Thanks to everyone who follows this site. In honor, of this occasion, I am doing something a little different for the Crossover of the Week. Instead of sharing a write-up from the main timeline, I am going to provide an excerpt from one of the addendums, "The Anno Dracula Universe and Character Guide."

Anno Dracula 1968: Aquarius (in Anno Dracula: Dracula Cha Cha Cha, Titan Books, 2012)

• Kate Reed
• Kôr (kingdom ruled by Ayesha, aka She Who Must Be Obeyed, in novels by H. Rider Haggard)
• Jerusalem’s Lot (’Salem’s Lot by Stephen King)
• Gamma Bomb (source of Dr. Bruce Banner’s transformation into the Hulk in stories published by Marvel Comics)
• Bali Ha’i (Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener, adapted by Rodgers and Hammerstein as the musical South Pacific)
• Frank Mills is the title character of a song in the stage musical and film Hair
• Algernon Ford (The Reverend Alexander Algernon Ford; Gavin Reed, The Body Beneath)
• Horatio Stubbs is featured in a trilogy of novels by Brian Aldiss
• Seaton Begg is Michael Moorcock’s alternate reality counterpart to Sexton Blake
• Compact magazine is from the British soap opera Compact
• Bikini Girl magazine is from the film The Night Caller
• Wow Magazine is from the film Cover Girl Killer
• Fred Regent (Richard Jeperson’s policeman sidekick in Newman’s Diogenes Club stories)
• Jim Graham (Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard; Graham is a fictionalized version of Ballard himself)
• B Division and Pickering are from R. Chetwynd-Hayes’ book The Monster Club
• Herrick (William Herrick; Jason Watkins, Being Human)
• The Diogenes Club
• Detective Superintendent Bellaver, Detective Sergeant Griffin, and Keith Kenneth (Alfred Marks, Julian Holloway, and Michael Gothard, Scream and Scream Again)
• Premier Torgu (Ion Torgu; Fangland by John Marks)
• Lord Ruthven
• Lorrimer Van Helsing (Peter Cushing, Dracula A.D. 1972 and The Satanic Rites of Dracula)
• Abraham Van Helsing
• Morgan Delt (David Warner, Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment)
• Nezumi first appeared in "Anno Dracula 1923: Vampire Romance"
• Arthur Bryant and John May are members of the Peculiar Crimes Unit in novels by Christopher Fowler
• Mycroft Holmes
• Richard Jeperson
• Donna Rogers (Anna Massey) and the Midnight Mess restaurant are from the film The Vault of Horror
• Geoff Brent (Geoffrey Brent; Ian Hendry, Police Surgeon)
• The Crimson Executioner (Mickey Hargitay, Bloody Pit of Horror)
• Carol Thatcher (Janet Lynn, Cool It Carol!)
• Geneviève Dieudonné
• Waldo Zhernikov (Herbert Lom, The Frightened City)
• Hogarth, aka Big Bloodsucker Hog (Peter Egan, Big Breadwinner Hog)
• The Living Dead motorcycle gang is from the film Psychomania
• Inspector Hornleigh (protagonist of a 1930s radio show)
• George Dixon (Jack Warner, The Blue Lamp and Dixon of Dock Green)
• Jack Regan (John Thaw, The Sweeney)
• Timothy Lea (Robin Askwith, Confessions of a Window Cleaner, Confessions of a Pop Performer, Confessions of a Driving Instructor, and Confessions of a Summer Camp Councillor; Askwith also played Joe Sickles in Cool It Carol!)
• Peter Steiger (Ralph Arliss, Blood Relations)
• University of Watermouth (The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury)
• St. Bartolph’s and Laura Bellows (Caroline Munro) are from Dracula A.D. 1972
• Walter Goodrich and Doctor Holstrom (Peter Cushing and Edward Woodward, Incense for the Damned)
• Caleb Croft and James Eastman (Michael Pataki and William Smith, Grave of the Vampire)
• Professor Bowles-Ottery (Leo McKern, A Jolly Bad Fellow)
• E. B. Fern is a science fiction author played by Harold Kasket in "Amazing Stories," an episode of the British television anthology Red Letter Day
• Tom Choley was played by Paul Angelis in a six-part adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel A Dog’s Ransom on the anthology series Armchair Thriller
• The Winchester is from the movie Shaun of the Dead
• Neville Hetherington (Robert Crewdson, Her Private Hell)
• Sybil Waite (Patricia Haines, Virgin Witch)
• Sixth Form Girls in Chains, Zarana and Lady Celia (Lady Celia Asquith-Leaves) are from Newman’s story "Soho Golem"
• The Science of Sex is from the movie Deep End
• Bathtime with Brenda is from the movie Terror
• Thomas Nolan is David Hemmings’ character from the film Blow-Up (Newman provided him with his surname, which is the same as that of Hemmings’ character in The Charge of the Light Brigade; Hemmings named one of his sons Nolan in honor of that role)
• Lucy Westenra
• Sir John Rowan (Peter Cushing, Corruption)
• Baron Meinster (David Peel, The Brides of Dracula)
• Clive Landseer (Alexis Kanner, Goodbye Gemini; the "white-blonde male and female twins who 'came together'" are Julian and Jacki Dewar, played by Martin Potter and Judy Geeson)
• Syrie Van Epp (Elizabeth Shepherd, The Corridor People)
• The Fevre Dream is from George R. R. Martin’s vampire novel of the same name
• Sebastian Newcastle (Don Sebastian de Villanueva, from vampire novels by Les Daniels)
• Herbert von Krolock and Professor Abronsius (Iain Quarrier and Jack MacGowran, Dance of the Vampires aka The Fearless Vampire Killers)
• Mrs. Michaela Cazaret and Tom Lynn (Ava Gardner and Ian McShane, The Ballad of Tam Lin)
• Paul Durward (Shane Briant, Captain Kronos–Vampire Hunter)
• Canon Copely-Syle (To the Devil a Daughter by Dennis Wheatley)
• Emir Abdulla Akaba was played by Henry Soskin in the "Death a la Carte" episode of The Avengers
• Plainview Oil is a reference to the film There Will Be Blood
• Berkeley-Willoughby (Archibald Berkeley-Willoughby, The Adventures of PC 49 radio series)
• Jack Andrus (Kirk Douglas, Two Weeks in Another Town)
• Byron Orlok (Boris Karloff, Targets; his role of Clayface is meant to evoke Basil Karlo, the first of several Batman foes to use the name Clayface, who modeled his masked persona after the character he played in the horror film The Terror, which is also the name of Byron Orlok’s last film)
• Countess Addhema (The Vampire Countess by Paul Féval)
• Toby Dammit (Terence Stamp, Spirits of the Dead)
• The Daughter of the Dragon (Fah Lo Suee, daughter of Fu Manchu; her alias of Lin Tang is the name given to Fu’s daughter in the Harry Alan Towers-produced films in the late ‘60s, in which she was portrayed by Tsai Chin, while her role as Thomas Nolan’s personal assistant is a reference to Chin’s appearance as Thomas’ unnamed receptionist in Blow-Up)
• The Lord of Strange Deaths (Fu Manchu)
• Barbara von Weidenborn (Evelyne Kraft, Lady Dracula; her pseudonym Barbarushka is a reference to 1960s fashion model Veruschka, who appeared as a fictionalized version of herself in Blow-Up)
• Edwina (Edwina Lionheart; Diana Rigg, Theatre of Blood)
• Marcus Monserrat and Mrs. Monserrat (Boris Karloff and Catherine Lacey, The Sorcerers)
• Hugh Conway and Shangri-La (Lost Horizon by James Hilton)
• Shambhala is from Tibetan and Indian Buddhist mythology
• K’un-L’un is the adopted home of the Marvel Comics hero Iron Fist
• Kent Allard
• "The secret of killing via shouting" is a reference to the film The Shout
• Catherine Cornelius is the sister of Michael Moorcock’s adventurer and secret agent Jerry Cornelius
• Moira Kent ("The Dancing Life of Moira Kent," strip in the British comic Bunty)
• Fontaine Khaled (The Stud and The Bitch by Jackie Collins)
• Sir Billy Langly was played by Kevin Brennan in "The Human Time Bomb," an episode of the television series Doomwatch
• The Steel Claw is a British comics character
• Vanessa is Richard Jeperson’s lovely companion
• Charles Beauregard
• Danny Dravot
• Whitney is Whitney Gauge from Newman’s "Moon Moon Moon"
• Maureen is Maureen Mountmain from Newman’s "Seven Stars"
• Louise-Ésperance is Madame Louise Ésperance "Mama-Lou" d’Ailly-Guin from Newman’s "The Serial Murders," which is also the source of Corri (Professor Barbara Corri) and The Northern Barstows
• Quelou is Mademoiselle Quelou from Newman’s Doctor Who novel Time and Relative
• CI5 is from the British television series The Professionals
• WOOC(P) (The Ipcress File by Len Deighton)
• The Circus is from the George Smiley novels by John le Carré
• Universal Exports is the front for the British Secret Service in the James Bond novels
• The Section is from the TV series Callan; David Callan’s boss is known as Colonel Hunter
• Sandbaggers are a reference to the British spy TV series The Sandbaggers
• Scalphunters are a reference to le Carré’s Smiley novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• Edwin Winthrop
• Mildew Manor is from Kim Newman’s story of the same name
• James Manfred, O.B.E. (James Cossins, Raw Meat aka Deathline)
• The Department of Administrative Affairs is from the British sitcom Yes Minister
• Nicholas Dyer (Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd)
• Professor Elwyn Clayton (George Zucco, Dead Men Walk)
• Faber College is from the film National Lampoon’s Animal House
• Santonix (Rudolf Santonix; Endless Night by Agatha Christie)
• Harry Paget Flashman
• Horatio Hornblower
• George Edward Challenger
• Sir Francis Varney
• Prince Mamuwalde (William Marshall, Blacula and Scream Blacula Scream)
• Dru is Drusilla (Juliet Landau) from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Ricky Strange (Steve Patterson) and Groover’s are from the film Au Pair Girls
• Mina Harker
• Kostaki ("The Pale Lady" by Alexandre Dumas)
• Styles, the Haymarket Strangler (Edward Styles; Michael Atkinson, Grip of the Strangler)
• Constable Thackeray is from the Inspector Cribb novels by Peter Lovesey
• Eric DeBoys was played by Patrick Mower in The Avengers episode "A Sense of History"
• Cathy Castel and Pony Tricot are meant to be the vampires played by Catherine and Marie-Pierre Castel in several films directed by Jean Rollin; "Pony Tricot" is one of Marie-Pierre’s stage names.
• Howard W. Campbell Jr. (Mother Night and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut)
• Miss Brabazon (Sheila Keith, House of Mortal Sin)
• Scrawdyke (Malcolm Scrawdyke; John Hurt, Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs)
• Withnail (Richard E. Grant, Withnail & I)
• Moïse King is a combination of Moise from the film The Party’s Over and King from the film These Are the Damned; both roles were played by Oliver Reed
• Simon Armstrong (The Feast of the Wolf by Thomas Blackburn)
• Anna Franklyn (Jacqueline Pearce, The Reptile; Pearce also played Marianne Gray in "A Sense of History")
• Fran (Marianne Morris, Vampyres)
• Roquentin (Antoine Roquentin; Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre)
• Elizabeth Bathory
• Hesselius (Dr. Martin Hesselius, In A Glass Darkly by J. Sheridan LeFanu)
• "The vanishing police box" is the Doctor’s TARDIS from Doctor Who
• The Mother of Tears is from Dario Argento’s film trilogy consisting of Suspiria, Inferno, and Mother of Tears
• Carmilla
• Edward Langdon, MP (Lennard Pearce, Face of Darkness)
• Dr. John Hardy (Marius Goring, The Expert)
• Lionel St. Dubois (Lorenzo "L. S. D." St. Dubois; Dick Shawn, The Producers)
• Horace Rumpole (Leo McKern, Rumpole of the Bailey)
• Joe Hawkins is the protagonist of the Skinhead novels by "Richard Allen," a pen name for James Moffat
• Adam Cochran (Dracula and the Virgins of the Undead by "Etienne Aubin," also a Moffat pseudonym)
• Reginald Bird (Ronald "Budgie" Bird; Adam Faith, Budgie)
• Peter Craven (Malcolm McFee, Please Sir! and The Fenn Street Gang)
• Fullalove of the Gazette (James Fullalove; Paul Whitsun-Jones, The Quatermass Experiment; Brian Worth, Quatermass and the Pit)
• Stenning of the Express (Peter Stenning; Edward Judd, The Day the Earth Caught Fire)
• DCI Charlie Barlow (Stratford Johns) and New Town are from the TV series Z Cars and its many spin-offs
• Sergeant Lynch (James Ellis, Z Cars)
• Jasper Lakin was played by John Laurie in The Avengers episode "Brief for Murder"
• Perryman (Det. Sgt. Perryman; Michael McStay, No Hiding Place)
• North (Det. Sgt. Bill North; Roger Rowland, Special Branch)
• The Bowmans, from the titular episode of the British sitcom Hancock, is a parody of the radio soap opera The Archers
• Sister George is from the play and film The Killing of Sister George
• Jessica Van Helsing (Stephanie Beacham, Dracula A.D. 1972; Joanna Lumley, The Satanic Rites of Dracula)
• Marcus Obadiah (The Dead Travel Fast by Richard Tate)
• Kingstead Cemetery is from Dracula
• The India-Rubber Men are from Edgar Wallace’s novel of the same name
• Graf von Orlok (Max Schreck, Nosferatu)
• John Blaylock (David Bowie, The Hunger)
• Orlon Kronsteen (They Thirst and "Makeup" by Robert McCammon)
• Mavis Weld (The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler)
• Biff Bailey (Roy Castle, Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors)
• Marcel DeLange (Martin Kosleck, House of Horrors [no relation to the above])
• The Gorilla of Soho is from the 1968 German film of the same name
• Renfield
• St. Swithin’s and Michael Upton (Barry Evans) are from the television series Doctor in the House and Doctor at Large

Crossover Cover: Forsaken

The first novel in J. D. Barker’s Shadow Cove Trilogy. Writer Thad McAlister and his family are menaced by a witch cult from one of Thad’s books, which turns out to be real. Thad’s wife Rachael bought the journal in which Thad wrote the novel at Needful Things, a store in Castle Rock, Maine, owned by Leland Gaunt. The connection to Stephen King’s novel Needful Things brings this series into the CU. Although the epilogue which shows Rachael buying the book from Gaunt is stated to have taken place ten years earlier, Gaunt was only in Castle Rock in 1991, twenty-two years before the novel’s main events. At one point, Rachael reads an old e-mail dated Thursday, December 3, 2014. December 3, 2014 was a Wednesday, and also after this book’s publication date, and therefore the date given for the e-mail must be considered misinformation.

Crossover of the Week

I didn't post anything yesterday because it was my birthday, so here's today's post. :)

December 2010

NIGHT GAUNTLET

Dr. Emil Hesychius’s former office at the University of Texas is covered with souvenir postcards from many places, including: Derry, Maine; Arkham, Massachusetts; Glory, West Virginia; Sesqua Valley, Washington; Brichester, England; Binger, Oklahoma; Mirocaw, Idaho; Crouch End, England; Telfer, Australia; and Nan Madol, Federated States of Micronesia. Hesychius went on a shooting spree from the top of the University’s clock tower, claiming he was shooting “nightgaunts.” John Giloh and Dr. Susan Derby go on a date to see Red Dreams, a Korean horror film directed by Harry Chang. Susan, a member of the Derby-Pickman clan, shows John the Sign of Koth.

Round-robin story by Walter C. Debill, Jr.; Richard Gavin; Robert M. Price; W. H. Pugmire; Jeffrey Thomas; and Don Webb, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March–April 2011. Derry, Maine is featured in many of Stephen King’s works. Arkham, Massachusetts is the site of many of H. P. Lovecraft’s tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. Glory, West Virginia is a recurring setting in the works of author Davis Grubb. Sesqua Valley, Washington appears in Cthulhu Mythos tales by W. H. Pugmire. Brichester, England is part of the Severn Valley in Mythos fiction by Ramsey Campbell. Binger, Oklahoma is a real place that appears in Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop’s story “The Mound.” Mirocaw, Idaho is from Thomas Ligotti’s Mythos story “The Last Feast of Harlequin.” Crouch End, England is a real place that served as the setting for Stephen King’s Mythos story “Crouch End.” Telfer is a real place located in Australia’s Great Sandy Desert, the latter of which was referenced in Lovecraft’s story “The Shadow Out of Time.” Nan Madol, Federated States of Micronesia is a real place that was the setting for A. Merritt’s The Moon Pool. The nightgaunts and the Sign of Koth are from Lovecraft’s Dream Cycle stories. Rick Lai writes, “Red Dreams is from the prologue to Ramsey Campbell’s ‘The Franklyn Paragraphs.’ This prologue is generally printed on a page preceding the story, and sometimes has the title ‘Errol Undercliffe: A Tribute.’ Undercliffe is a fictional horror writer whose short story was the basis for Red Dreams.” Dr. Susan Derby is probably related to the namesake of the Nathaniel Derby Pickman Foundation from Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of Madness.”

Crossover TV Series: Haven

The TV series Haven is loosely based on Stephen King's novel The Colorado Kid. While the novel has no connections to King's other works, the TV series has several references to his fiction, as well as a reference to The X-Files, and therefore is included in the CU. For instance, a flyer seen in the show’s opening credits refers to “the revered Flagg,” a reference to King’s recurring villain Randall Flagg. In the episode "Ball and Chain," FBI Agent Audrey Parker and Nathan Wuornos investigate a case involving men rapidly aging to death and decomposing. Nathan learns of a similar death that occurred in Derry years ago. Derry, Maine is a recurring locale in King’s fiction. Derry is also mentioned in the episode following this one, “Fur.” In "As You Were," Vince Teagues gives Audrey the book Misery Unchained, a "first edition signed by the author just before that lady chopped off his foot," as a birthday gift. The author of Misery Unchained is Paul Sheldon, whose foot was chopped off by his deranged fan Annie Wilkes in King’s novel Misery. In "The Hand You're Dealt," Audrey reads notes about a “firebug” (pyrokinetic) on the Vermont-New Hampshire border and in upstate New York. Photographer Morris Crane refers to creatures with lobster-like claws who communicate in a clicking language. The firebug on the Vermont-New Hampshire border and in upstate New York is Charlie McGee from King’s novel Firestarter. The lobster-like creatures are the Lobstrosities from The Drawing of the Three, the second book in King’s Dark Tower series. In "The Trail of Audrey Parker," Audrey says to her FBI supervisor, Agent Howard, “At least I’m not like that one guy you trained that was chasing aliens, what was his name?” Howard retorts, "Hey, he was a genius. What happened to him the last few years, that was a tragedy." Little Tall Island is mentioned. The alien-hunting FBI agent trained by Agent Howard is Fox Mulder from the television series The X-Files. Little Tall Island is from Stephen King’s novel Dolores Claiborne, as well as the TV mini-series Storm of the Century. In "Spiral," Max Hansen has just been released from Shawshank State Prison, a recurring location in Stephen King’s fiction, appearing most prominently in "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption." In "Who, What, Where, Wendigo," a radio announcer refers to the Lobstrosities. In "Business as Usual," Nathan  makes use of a coroner from Cleaves Mills. Duke Crocker won his boat from a man in Castle Rock. The town of Cleaves Mills is from King’s novel The Dead Zone. Castle Rock is the setting of The Dead Zone and several other books and stories by King. In "Silent Night," Derry is mentioned as a neighboring town to Haven. In "Double Jeopardy," Duncan Fromsley is transferred from Shawshank. In "Sarah," it is stated that Roy Crocker's wife and son live near Derry. In "Countdown," Duke Crocker says that Dwight Hendrickson is in Cleaves Mills cleaning up a mess. In "See No Evil," Audrey, whose original personality has come out of dormancy, searches for “Thinnys,” weak spots in reality, in order to find the mysterious William. Thinnys are from the Dark Tower series, reinforcing the Territories and Mid-World as alternate realities to the Crossover Universe.