Crossover Cover: All Things Under the Moon

In this novel, written by C.J. Henderson under a pen name, Teddy London’s battle with a millennia-old werewolf leads him to the Tibetan monastery of A’alshirie. Several of Henderson’s stories featuring Lin Carter’s occult detective Anton Zarnak refer to Zarnak having studied under the masters of A’alshirie.

Crossover Cover: Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Lost World

Carl Kolchak has heard about two professors from Duke University who seem to run into the bizarre almost as much as he does. Falling asleep, Kolchak enters the dreamplane. The two professors from Duke University are Drs. Hugh Blakely and William Boles, who appear appear in a series of stories by Henderson and Bruce Gehweiler that are collected in Where Angels Fear. The dreamplane is from Henderson's novels featuring Teddy London, a private eye who regularly encounters the supernatural. This novel takes place in March, two years after Kolchak's first encounter with a vampire in The Night Stalker. Since Win placed The Night Stalker in 1970, I have placed The Lost World in March 1972. As with other Kolchak stories published by Moonstone, I am ignoring contemporary references such as the Internet and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in order to maintain Kolchak's adventures in their original time frame.

Crossover Cover: Lai Wan: Tales of the Dreamwalker

The late C.J. Henderson wrote several stories about a female Chinese psychometrist named Lai Wan, who first debuted in his Teddy London stories, which are in the CU. This collection featuring the character includes four stories co-written with other authors, in which Lai Wan is teamed with those authors' characters. "Family Ties" is co-written by Patrick Thomas, and has Agent Karver and his partner Mandi Cobb of Thomas' Department of Mystic Affairs enlisting Lai Wan's aid in tracking down Mandi's kidnapped nephew. The Department of Mystic Affairs tales are a spin-off of Thomas' Murphy's Lore series, and he has done several other spin-off books for characters from that series. "Innocent Monsters" teams Lai Wan with John L. French's Baltimore police detective Bianca Jones, who regularly runs into the supernatural (I did a Crossover of the Week post about Bianca's origin story, "Out of the Blackness," a while ago.) Henderson and Bruce Gehweiler's "One Night in Chinatown" has Lai Wan working with former Sheriff Donna Fargo, who now works for Doctors Blakely and Boles, supernatural experts appearing in a series of stories by Henderson and Gehweiler that are collected in the book Where Angels Fear. Finally, John Sunseri and Henderson's "Not What One Does" has Lai Wan and Sunseri's NSA agent Jack Dixon battling a shoggoth.