Crossover of the Week

 Autumn 1921

A TALE OF TWO SOULS 

Dr. Henry Jekyll seeks the Sâr Dubnotal’s aid, having heard rumors back of an odd case where he assisted Professor Van Helsing. Jekyll’s other personality, Edward Hyde, has opened the Cenobites’ puzzle box. The Sâr’s sanctum includes such items as the Helmet of Nabu, the Witchblade, and the Resurrection Stone. A Cenobite with pins sticking out of his skull appears. The Sâr offers the Cenobite Hyde as his emissary on Earth, saying there are souls so evil they are beyond his ability to change them, such as Fantômas and Tserpchikopf. Two months later, Hyde offers the puzzle box to Irma Vep and the Great Vampire. 

Short story by Matthew Dennion in Sâr Dubnotal 2: The Astral Trail, Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier, eds., Black Coat Press, 2015; reprinted in French in Les Compagnons de l’Ombre (Tome 19), Jean-Marc Lofficier, ed., Rivière Blanche, 2016. The Sâr Dubnotal is a French pulp hero. Tserpchikopf battled the Sâr in several novels. Dr. Henry Jekyll and his alter ego Edward Hyde are from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Professor Abraham Van Helsing is from Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The Cenobites and their puzzle box, the Lament Configuration, are from the Hellraiser movies. The Cenobite with pins sticking out of his skull is Pinhead. Captain Elliott Spencer became Pinhead in 1921, as established in Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, so this story must take place not long after. The Helmet of Nabu will later be worn by DC Comics’ mystic hero Dr. Fate. The Witchblade is from the titular Top Cow Comics series. The Resurrection Stone is from J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, bringing in Harry Potter. Fantômas is Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre’s villain. Irma Vep and the Great Vampire are from the serial Les Vampires.

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

Spring 2010

DARK WAR 

Appearing or mentioned are: the Hyde formula; Dr. Moreau; Jerboa, a werethylacine; Frankenstein Monsters; Audrey IIs; Granny Red, an immortal monster hunter; the Weird Sisters; the Beast with a Million Eyes; the Killer Shrews; the Monster that Challenged the World; the Crawling Eye; Q the Winged Serpent; the Giant Gila Monster; the original Hound of the Baskervilles; Kongar; Reptilikan; the Sea Hag; Dr. Bombay; Chandu; the Blair Witch; a Gill-Man; Carl; and Arthur Van Helsing. 

The third and final Nekropolis novel by Tim Waggoner, 2011. The Hyde formula is from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Dr. Moreau is either Dr. Alphonse Moreau from H. G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau or one of his descendants. Jerboa is from the movie The Howling III: The Marsupials. Frankenstein Monsters are from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Audrey II is from the movie The Little Shop of Horrors. Granny Red claims to be the original Little Red Riding Hood. The Weird Sisters are from William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The Beast with 1,000,000 Eyes, the Killer Shrews, the Monster that Challenged the World, the Crawling Eye, Q the Winged Serpent, and the Giant Gila Monster are all from the movies of the same name. The original Hound of the Baskervilles is from Doyle and Watson’s eponymous Sherlock Holmes novel. Kongar and Reptilikan are stand-ins for the titular creatures from the movies King Kong and Reptilicus. The Sea Hag is Popeye’s foe from E. C. Segar’s comic strip Thimble Theatre. Dr. Bombay is from the TV series Bewitched. Chandu is from the radio series Chandu the Magician. The Blair Witch is from the movie The Blair Witch Project. The Gill-Man is from the movie Creature from the Black Lagoon and its sequels. Carl is Carl Kolchak, who previously appeared in the first Nekropolis novel. Arthur Van Helsing is a member of the famous family of monster hunters. 

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 Covers: The Big Bleed Out

 

Private eye and monster killer Cal McDonald briefly teams up with Larry Van Helsing, another member of the line of monster hunters.

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: And Such Small Deer

 

In this story by Chris Roberson, Abraham Van Helsing battles the Giant Rat of Sumatra on a plantation owned by the Netherland-Sumatra Company and run by Baron de Maupertuis. Culverton Smith and the ship Matilda Briggs also appear, as do Dr. Moreau, Frédéric Lerne, and Max Havelaar. Abraham Van Helsing is from Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The Giant Rat of Sumatra and the Matilda Briggs are from Doyle and Watson’s Sherlock Holmes tale “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire.” The Netherland-Sumatra Company and Baron Maupertuis are from “The Adventure of the Reigate Squire.” Culverton Smith is from “The Adventure of the Dying Detective.” Dr. Moreau is from H. G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau. Frédéric Lerne is the title character of Maurice Renard’s Doctor Lerne. Max Havelaar is from the eponymous novel by “Multatuli” (Eduard Douwes Dekker).

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 TV Series: The Middleman

Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Les McClaine's comic The Middleman features the title character and his sidekick Wendy Watson battling threats to the world for the Organization Too Secret to Know (O2TSK). There have been several Middlemen throughout history. In the story "The League of Professional Jealousy," Dr. Van Helsing and Jonathan Harker set out to destroy Dracula, only to find they have been beaten to the punch. Soon after, Phileas Fogg returns to the Reform Club after finishing his eighty-day trek around the world, only to find out his time has been beaten by the same person who stole Van Helsing’s thunder: the Middleman. Van Helsing enlists Nikolai Tesla to help him and Fogg get their revenge, which involves Van Helsing spreading rumors of a demonic hound in the moors of Devonshire. However, Tesla actually helps the Middleman outwit Van Helsing and Fogg. Learning there are now reports of a seemingly real "Hound of the Baskervilles" in Devonshire, the Middleman later sends a letter to Holmes and Watson telling them he has already solved the mystery, and he is off to the high seas, where a maniac has been ramming cargo ships with a submarine. This story is a parody, and Van Helsing and Fogg are both out of character. Additionally, the year is given as 1897, whereas in the CU Dracula took place in 1887, Around the World in Eighty Days in 1872, The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1888, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in 1866–1868. Therefore, I place the comics in an AU. However, the comic does have a TV adaptation with crossover references of its own, which fits much better into the CU. The O2TSK is also mentioned in The Librarians episode "The Librarians and the Apple of Discord."

In "The Sino-Mexican Revelation," the Middleman and Wendy visit Schlermie Beckerman Memorial Square and Alfred Necessiter Memorial Hospital. Beckerman and Necessiter are from the movie The Man with Two Brains. In "The Manicoid Teleportation Conundrum," the Middleman has a rendezvous with Wendy at Lyon Estates. Wendy discovers a bomb is hidden at Twin Pines Mall. Ida, the Middleman’s android assistant, says a headless murder victim lived at Eastwood Ravine Drive. Lyon Estates and Twin Pines Mall are from the film Back to the Future. Eastwood Ravine Drive is named after the Eastwood Ravine from Back to the Future Part III. In "The Ectoplasmic Panhellenic Investigation," Eleanor Draper’s honors include the Egon Spengler Memorial Award and the Ivo Shandor Medal. Both individuals are from the movie Ghostbusters. In "The Clotharian Contamination Protocol," a NASA employee is named Lethbridge-Stewart. A "Zygon-Rated" containment box appears. The Nakatomi Protocol expands the vents in Middleman HQ to human size, allowing the Middleman to crawl through them in case of an emergency. A Clotharian bomb has writing on it in Aurebesh. Lethbridge-Stewart is probably related to the CU counterpart of Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart from Doctor Who. The Zygons are an alien race also seen in Doctor Who. The Nakatomi Protocol appears to have been inspired by John McClane crawling through the vents of the Nakatomi Plaza building, as seen in the movie Die Hard. The Aurebesh language is from the Star Wars film series. In "The Palindrome Reversal Palindrome," the Middleman and Wendy investigate the theft of a Beryllium Sphere and an Oscillation Overthruster. A collection of stolen doll eyes is made of polydichloric euthimal. The Middleman has a phased polaron cannon in his weapons archive. Beryllium spheres are from the movie Galaxy Quest, while the Oscillation Overthruster is from the movie The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension. Polydichloric euthimal appears in the movies Outland, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and The Relic, based on Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s novel Relic. Outland must take place in an alternate future. The future seen in the Terminator movies is also an alternate timeline to the established future of the CU. The novel Relic has already been established as taking place in the CU, so the events of the movie must occur in an alternate reality as well. Phased polarons are from Star Trek.

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 of the Week

Early January–May 4, 1891

THE PROBLEM OF THE FINAL ADVENTURE

Colonel Sebastian Moran recounts the events leading to Professor Moriarty’s battle with Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls. Appearing or mentioned are: Watson; Colonel Moriarty; the third James Moriarty; “an Irish spinster scribbler”; the Fat Man of Whitehall; the Diogenes Club; Billy the Page; Charlie Vokins; Lestrade; Mackenzie; MacDonald; Simon Carne; the Ranee of Ranchipur; the Lord of Strange Deaths; Fal Vale; Sophy Kratides; Harold Latimer and Wilson Kemp; Charles Milverton; Dan Levy; Les Vampires; the Grand Vampire; Irma Vep; Kingstead Cemetery; La Castafiore; Thomas Carnacki; Van Helsing; Bulstrode & Sons; Baron Maupertuis; quap; Mr. Beebe; the Daughter of the Dragon; Doctor Nikola; Madame Sara; Margaret Trelawny; the Hoxton Creeper; Doctor Mabuse; Alraune ten Brincken; Arthur Raffles and Bunny Manders; Théophraste Lupin and Joséphine Balsamo, Countess Cagliostro; Doctor Jack Quartz and Princess Zanoni; Rupert of Hentzau; Irene Adler; the Si-Fan; Queen Tera; the Jewel of Seven Stars; the Black Pearl of the Borgias; the Duke of Shires; Dr. Syn; Barchester Cathedral; the Forsyte tomb; Colonel Clay; Jim Lassiter; Diggory Venn; Sir Augustus Moran; Von Herder; a skull-faced “ghost” in the khanum’s palace at Mazenderan; Parker; the Reverend John Jago; the Mountmains; Colonel Sapt; Princess Flavia; Birdy Edwards; Grimesby Roylott; John Clay; Bert Stevens; Fred Porlock; Birlstone Manor; Paul Kratides; Ruritania; Rudi; Michael; Rassendyll; The Englischer Hof; and Peter Steiler. The endnotes to the story reveal Kate Reed ghosted for her friend and later lover, Charles Beauregard, and the Diogenes Club traded as Universal Exports in the 1950s. Paul Forrestier is mentioned in the same endnote.

Short story by Colonel Sebastian Moran, edited by Kim Newman in Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the d’Urbervilles, Titan Books, 2011. Moriarty, Moran, Holmes, Watson, the Fat Man of Whitehall (Sherlock’s brother Mycroft), the Diogenes Club, Billy the Page, and Lestrade are from the Sherlock Holmes stories. Further references from the Holmes stories: Colonel Moriarty, Inspector Patterson, the Englischer Hof, and Peter Steiler from “The Final Problem”; the third James Moriarty (the stationmaster, later known as the second Professor Moriarty), MacDonald, Birdy Edwards, Fred Porlock, and Birlstone Manor from The Valley of Fear; Sophy Kratides, Harold Latimer, Wilson Kemp, and Paul Kratides from “The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter”; Charles Milverton from “The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton”; Baron Maupertuis, mentioned in “The Adventure of the Reigate Squire”; the Black Pearl of the Borgias from “The Adventure of the Six Napoleons”; Sir Augustus Moran, Von Herder, and Parker from “The Adventure of the Empty House”; Grimesby Roylott from “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”; John Clay from “The Adventure of the Red-Headed League”; and Bert Stevens from “The Adventure of the Norwood Builder.” Moran’s claim he shot Moriarty as the latter grappled with Holmes at Reichenbach must be considered spurious; Holmes would surely have noticed, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen depicts Moran and Campion Bond tending to Moriarty after his plunge down the falls. Moran must have lied to conceal the fact the Professor survived his painful fall. The “Irish spinster scribbler” is Kate Reed, a “deleted” character from Dracula who appears in several stories by Newman, and also has a counterpart in the Anno Dracula Universe. Charlie Vokins is from “The Horizontal Witness,” an episode of the television series Cribb. Arthur Raffles, Bunny Manders, and Mackenzie are from the Raffles stories by E. W. Hornung. Dan Levy is from the novel Mr. Justice Raffles. Given that Philip José Farmer identified Raffles as the father of Arthur Upfield’s Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, Moran and Sophy must be mistaken about Raffles and Bunny’s sexual orientation. Simon Carne is from Guy Boothby’s collection of stories A Prince of Swindlers. Ranchipur is from the film The Rains of Ranchipur. The Lord of Strange Deaths is Fu Manchu; the Si-Fan is the criminal organization Fu Manchu runs. The Daughter of the Dragon is presumably meant to be Fu Manchu’s daughter, Fah Lo Suee; however, this conflicts with Fah’s established birthdate of 1896. Fu must have had another daughter before Fah Lo Suee. Fal Vale is from Arnold Ridley’s play The Ghost Train. Les Vampires, the Grand Vampire, and Irma Vep are from Louis Feuillade’s serial Les Vampires. Kingstead Cemetery and Van Helsing are from Stoker’s Dracula. La Castafiore is Bianca Castafiore from Hergé’s Tintin comics. Thomas Carnacki, “the Ghost-Finder,” was created by William Hope Hodgson. Bulstrode & Sons is a reference to the British sitcom That’s Your Funeral. Quap is a radioactive compound from H. G. Wells’ novel Tono-Bungay. Mr. Beebe is from E. M. Forster’s novel A Room with a View. Doctor Nikola is the master criminal created by Guy Boothby. Madame Sara is from L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace’s The Sorceress of the Strand. Rick Lai has identified Madame Sara as the mother of Miss Warrender from Doyle’s short story “Uncle Jeremy’s Household” in his own fiction, and therefore Moran is wrong about Sara’s sexuality as well as Raffles and Bunny’s. Margaret Trelawny, Queen Tera, and the Jewel of Seven Stars are from Bram Stoker’s The Jewel of Seven Stars. The Hoxton Creeper is from the Sherlock Holmes film The Pearl of Death. Doctor Mabuse is the subject of fiction by Norbert Jacques, as well as a film trilogy by Fritz Lang. Alraune ten Brincken is from the novel Alraune by Hanns Heinz Ewers. Théophraste Lupin is the father of Maurice Leblanc’s gentleman thief Arsène Lupin, while Joséphine Balsamo is Arsène’s future nemesis. Doctor Jack Quartz and Princess Zanoni are foes of dime novel detective Nick Carter. Rupert of Hentzau, Colonel Sapt, Princess Flavia, Ruritania, Rudi (Rudolf V), Michael (Black Michael), and Rassendyll (Rudolf Rassendyll) are from The Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau by Anthony Hope. The Duke of Shires is from the Sherlock Holmes film A Study in Terror. Dr. Syn, aka the Scarecrow of Romney Marsh and Captain Clegg, is from the series of novels by Russell Thorndike. Barchester Cathedral is from Anthony Trollope’s Chronicles of Barsetshire novels. The Forsyte Saga is a series of novels by John Galsworthy. Colonel Clay is from the novel An African Millionaire by Grant Allen. Jim Lassiter is from Zane Grey’s novel Riders of the Purple Sage. Diggory Venn is from Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native. The skull-faced “ghost” in the khanum’s palace at Mazenderan is the Phantom of the Opera, from the novel by Gaston Leroux. The Reverend John Jago is an ancestor of Anthony Jago from Newman’s novel Jago, and also has a counterpart in the Anno Dracula Universe. Paul Forrestier is also from Jago. The Mountmains are likely kin to the Mountmains who appear in Newman’s Seven Stars. Charles Beauregard is from Newman’s Diogenes Club stories, and has a counterpart in the Anno Dracula Universe. In Billy Wilder’s film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, the Diogenes Club was portrayed as a front for the British Secret Service, a theory Newman has adopted for his own fiction; here, it is revealed the Club eventually became Universal Exports, the front for the BSS in Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels. However, the BSS must have still privately used the Club’s name at times, as demonstrated by Richard Jeperson’s exploits.

Crossover Cover: Darklost

Victor Renquist and his Los Angeles-based vampire Colony fight human cultists who intend to free Cthulhu. A coven member named Julia thinks New Orleans vampires “had gone so far as to form a secret society called Les Enfants du Sangre, and had for a while been totally exploited by a ronin outcast nosferatu who had used the name Eccarius, until the creature had been nailed out in the sun by Cassidy, the notorious loner and wandering iconoclast, one of the few hobo diamonds left among the undead.” Renquist “had lived through the era of the professional witchfinders and vampire hunters of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the depredations of Kronos, Van Helsing, and the unspeakable Feldstein, all of whom had made a professional practice of entering the daytime refuges of his kind to impale with their wooden stakes…” Cthulhu is the most well-known of the Great Old Ones of H. P. Lovecraft’s Mythos. Dr. Abraham Van Helsing is from Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula. Kronos is from the Hammer film Captain Kronos–Vampire Hunter. Feldstein is an original character. Cassidy is from the comic book series Preacher; his confrontation with Eccarius and Les Enfants du Sangre was told in the one-shot Preacher Special: Cassidy–Blood & Whiskey. The Preacher series takes place in a universe where the American president (implicitly Bill Clinton) had a nuclear weapon dropped on the Navajo and Hopi reservations. Since no such event happened in the CU, the Preacher Special: Saint of Killers miniseries and Blood & Whiskey are being treated as the only Preacher stories to have definitely occurred in the CU.

Crossover Cover: Monster Hunter Vendetta

Monster Hunter International (M.H.I.) continues to battle against the Old Ones. Trip Jones buys a fantasy novel by L.H. Franzibald in a hotel gift shop. A shoggoth appears, and one of the books in M.H.I.’s library is a tome written by a Mad Arab, which contains information on Shoggoths. M.H.I. has worked with Britain’s Van Helsing Institute. Agent Franks is revealed to be a Frankenstein creation, though constructed by the historical alchemist Johann Conrad Dippel. The Yith are mentioned. The Old Ones, shoggoths, and the Yith are all from the works of H.P. Lovecraft, as is the Mad Arab, Abdul Alhazred. His book is the Al Azif, better known as the Necronomicon. L.H. Franzibald is from Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik’s web comic Penny Arcade. The Van Helsing Institute must be named in honor of the monster hunting Van Helsing family, originally from Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Johann Dippel is established as an ancestor of the more infamous Frankenstein clan in several sources.

Crossover Cover: Monster Hunter International

After accountant Owen Pitt kills his boss upon learning that he is a murderous werewolf, he is recruited by Monster Hunter International (M.H.I.), a company that kills monsters to cash in on secret government bounties. Owen is told that Creature from the Black Lagoon was based on a true story, and that both H.P. Lovecraft and J.R.R. Tolkien based their works on stories they heard from monster hunters. M.H.I. battles the Old Ones. Upon hearing the main villain referred to as “C.O.,” Owen thinks, “After having seen him, and feeling a taste of his power, calling the evil creature something so innocuous seemed a little silly. The residents of Tokyo didn’t call Godzilla “Big G.” Earl Harbinger compares the agents of M.H.I. to famous monster hunters of the past, including Odysseus, St. George, Beowulf, and “Van Helsing with firepower.” Julie Shackleford mentions “the Vanni Fucci incident in Dothan a while back.” The references to Lovecraft, the Creature from the Black Lagoon and Abraham Van Helsing link Monster Hunter International and its sequels into the CU. There is a CU version of Godzilla, as seen in Emmanuel Gorlier’s story “Twilight” and Nick Pollotta’s novel Doomsday Exam, but he appears to have spent his existence in the 20^th and 21^st centuries in captivity. “The Vanni Fucci incident in Dothan” is a reference to Dan Simmons’ short story “Vanni Fucci is Alive and Well and Living in Hell,” itself a follow-up to Dante’s Inferno.