Crossover Cover: The Miskatonic University Spiritualism Club

 

Are you a fan of the Back to the Future films?

Then you'll love this Cthulhu Mythos novella by Peter Rawlik, which has ties to that series and a number of other works!

For more information, be sure to check out my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! 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 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 Cover: Taxes

 

Mr. Monster comes to Alanna Wolff and Jeff Byrd asking them to help him when the IRS demands thousands in back taxes from him. They proceed to tell him about an earlier tax-related case of theirs.  This story marks the second crossover between Michael T. Gilbert’s hero Mr. Monster and Wolff and Byrd from Batton Lash’s Supernatural Law series.

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: The Killer Collective

Are you a Barry Eisler fan?

Then you'll love this novel, which brings together three of his series characters, Livia Lone, John Rain, and Ben Treven!

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

Crossover Covers: Dept. of Monsterology

 

Dunsany College’s Department of Cryptozoology, Mythological Studies, Parapsychology, and Fortean Phenomena, funded by the Hampton Foundation, has three field teams: Teams Challenger, Carnacki, and the long-lost Carter, whose members died on a space mission. The gold idol Indiana Jones lost in 1936 and the Lament Configuration are seen in Department head Professor Booker’s office. Team Challenger goes on an underwater expedition at 47°9’S 126°43’W, encountering fish men in the process, and recovering a squid-headed idol. Cryptogeographer Javier De Tovar says the markings on the idol are like those in the Ponape Manuscript. Meanwhile, Team Carnacki goes up against some jiangshi (Chinese vampires); a folk tradition from Szechuan suggests the hoofs of a black donkey as a weapon against the undead. Carnacki member Dominic Belasco is described as a “necronaut.” Miskatonic and “Kostabi’s people” are suggested among the parties who may have beat Carnacki to their next destination. In the Pacific, Challenger encounters a dinosaur, whose home De Tovar describes as late Pnakotic Era civilization ruins. A picture from Team Carter’s expedition to Yuggoth is seen. Dunsany’s first expedition to the Antarctic brought back a star-headed creature. The Department’s field teams are named after Arthur Conan Doyle’s Professor Challenger, William Hope Hodgson’s Thomas Carnacki, and Edgar Rice Burroughs’ warlord of Mars, respectively. The gold idol is from the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark. The Lament Configuration is from the Hellraiser films. 47°9’S 126°43’W are the coordinates of R’lyeh according to H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu.” The fish men are the Deep Ones from Lovecraft’s “The Shadow over Innsmouth.” The squid-headed idol is of Cthulhu. The Ponape Manuscript is from Lin Carter’s Cthulhu Mythos stories. Miskatonic University is mentioned in several of Lovecraft’s stories, as is Yuggoth. The Pnakotic Era refers to Lovecraft’s Pnakotic Manuscripts. The star-headed creature is an Elder Thing from Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of Madness.” The idea of black donkey hooves being used to fight jiangshi comes from Zhang Muye’s Ghost Blows Out the Light. Necronauts is a comic by Rennie and Frazer Irving. “Kostabi’s people” refers to Rennie and Dom Reardon’s comic Caballistics, Inc. 

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: La Fine del Mondo

 

Are you a fan of Alfredo Castelli's character Martin Mystere?

Then you'll love this comic where he meets Tiziano Sclavi's occult investigator Dylan Dog!

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

Crossover Cover: Dogs of War

 

Joe Ledger says that because of recent problems, cases that should have gone to the Department of Military Sciences instead went to other “specialists” such as Sigma Force and Seal Team 666. Tucker Wayne and his dog Kane are mentioned, along with Chess Team, and Agent Franks makes a cameo. Sigma Force is the subject of a series of novels by James Rollins. Tucker Wayne and Kane are from another series by Rollins and Grant Blackwood. Seal Team 666 is from Weston Ochse’s books. Chess Team is from a series of books by Jeremy Robinson. Agent Franks, from Larry Correia’s Monster Hunter International series, met Ledger in the story “Weaponized Hell.”

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 Episode: The Birthplace of Civilization

 

Are you a fan of the Coen Brothers' films?

Then you'll love this episode of the TV series Fargo, which is in continuity with the Coens' film of the same name, that has an implied connection to their film The Big Lebowski!

For more information, be sure to pick up a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! 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 1958

CRUEL HEAVEN 

The Demon Khan (aka Mina Struan) recruits Herbert West’s former assistant Daniel Cain to resurrect the Atlantean wizard Khutulus. Also appearing or mentioned are: the Black Tigers; Ilchedai Khan; Shiwana; the Golden Horde; the Dark Star (aka Yrimid); Mi-Ling; the Purple Sacrament; Burle Haisson; Stuart Hartwell; Tsan Chanyu; the Temple of Xangi; the Seven Rubies of Bolopore; Mina Struan’s paternal grandfather and grandmother; Daniel Cain’s great-grandfather; the Disposer of Souls (aka Erlik); the Black Lotus; the Winged Rider; Suleiman Ishak; The Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan; the Upas-Purãnas; Les Chroniques de Nemedea; Yahlgan; Dr. Omega Stark; Miskatonic University; Thoolsah; Kuen-Yuin; Khalkuru; R’ylethee; the Red Offering; King Cual of Valooze; Ulthar; the Dreamlands; Zushakon; Nug; the Black Litany; Alanhati; Derrick Struan; the Lurker of the Fourth Axis; a Mongol chieftain; the Sung orchids; the Choking Chalice; the ape-men of the Gobi; Kang; Than-Kul; the Livre d’Ivon; and Yin-yang Li. 

Short story by Rick Lai in Legacy of the Reanimator: Chronicles of Dr. Herbert West, Peter Rawlik and Brian M. Sammons, eds., Chaosium, 2015. Herbert West and Daniel Cain are from H. P. Lovecraft’s “Herbert West – Reanimator.” The Demon Khan is Erlik Khan from Robert E. Howard’s Steve Harrison stories, who Lai conflates with Yasmeena from Howard’s El Borak tale “The Daughter of Erlik Khan.” Khutulus is meant to be Kathulos from Howard’s “Skull-Face” and “Taverel Manor.” Lai conflates him with Kuthulos from Howard’s Kull story “The Cat and the Skull.” Thoolsah and Djelcurdes are Thulsa Doom and Delcardes from the same tale. The Black Tigers are from the El Borak story “The Country of the Knife.” Ilchedai Khan and the Golden Horde are from the TV movie Fanfare for a Death Scene. Shiwana is the daughter of the shadowy vigilante’s archenemy. The Dark Star is from Robert W. Chambers’ titular book. It was given the name Yrimid in The Slayer of Souls. Mi-Ling and Burle Haisson are from the round robin novels “Herbert West – Reanimated” and “Herbert West – Reincarnated.” The Purple Sacrament is based on a purple healing potion used by the slouch-hatted crimefighter and his agents. Hartwell is from Lovecraft’s “The Dunwich Horror.” Peter Rawlik gave Hartwell the first name Stuart and portrayed him as a rival of Herbert West. Tsan Chanyu is meant to be Shiwana’s father’s fortress, as well as the beginning of “the cruel empire of Tsan Chan, which is to come in 5,000 A.D.” in Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Out of Time.” One of the inhabitants of Tsan Chan is Yiang Li, a philosopher who has his mind swapped with that of one of the Great Race of Yith; Lai refers to him as Yin-yang Li, and reveals he is really an immortal Daniel Cain. Xangi and Kuen-Yuin are from Chambers’ “The Maker of Moons.” The Seven Rubies of Bolopore are from the Shadow novel The Seven Drops of Blood. Mina Struan’s paternal grandfather is Dirk Struan from James Clavell’s Tai-Pan, while her grandmother is Ling Ju Hai, identified as Fu Manchu’s mother in Philip José Farmer’s Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life. Daniel Cain’s great-grandfather, whose second wife was Chinese, is Thomas Henry Caine, the father of Kwai Chang Caine, the protagonist of the TV series Kung Fu. Cain’s grandfather is Kwai Chang’s older half-brother, Danny Caine. The Disposer of Souls is Zukala, from a series of poems by Howard. Lai identifies Zukala with Chambers’ version of Erlik and the King in Yellow, from Chambers’ titular collection. The Black Lotus is from Howard’s Conan stories. The Winged Rider is from Harold Lamb’s Khlit the Cossack story of the same name. Suleiman (or Solomon) Ishak is from Sax Rohmer’s The Mask of Fu Manchu. The Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan are from Lovecraft’s “The Other Gods” and “The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.” The Upas-Purãnas are from Lin Carter’s Thongor novels. Les Chroniques de Nemedea are a reference to The Nemedian Chronicles from the Conan stories. Yahlgan is from Howard’s “Black Hound of Death.” Omega Stark is the daughter of John Stark, aka Om, from Howard’s “The House of Om,” a synopsis for an unwritten short story. Miskatonic University is a staple of the Cthulhu Mythos. Khalkuru is a conflation of Cthulhu with Khalk’ru the Kraken God from A. Merritt’s Dwellers in the Mirage. R’ylethee is R’lyeh. The Red Offering is from Carter’s eponymous story. King Cual of Valooze is Kull, who rules the kingdom of Valusia. A lost civilization called Valooze appears in the El Borak story “Khoda Khan’s Tale.” Ulthar is from Lovecraft’s “The Cats of Ulthar.” The Dreamlands are from Lovecraft’s Dream Cycle stories. Zushakon is from Henry Kuttner’s “The Bells of Horror.” Nug is from Lovecraft’s “Out of the Aeons,” “The Mound,” and “The Last Test,” co-written with Hazel Heald, Zealia Bishop, and Adolphe de Castro, respectively. The Black Litany is from Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.’s poem “The Black Litany of Nug and Yeb.” Alanhati is another name for Atlantis in Brian Lumley’s “In the Vaults Beneath.” Derrick Struan is meant to be Fu Manchu. The Lurker of the Fourth Axis is a conflation of Lovecraft’s Yog-Sothoth with the titular god from E. Hoffmann Price’s Pierre d’Artois story “Lord of the Fourth Axis.” The Mongol chieftain is Khoon from Mark Channing’s Colin Gray novels. The Sung orchids are meant to be the Burmese orchids from which Fu Manchu’s Elixir Vitae is derived, although Sung is from August Derleth and Mark Schorer’s “The Lair of the Star-Spawn.” The Choking Chalice and Kang are from Frank Gruber’s “The Choking Chalice.” The ape-men of the Gobi are from Howard’s “Three-Bladed Doom” and “The Devils of Dark Lake.” Than-Kul is from Howard’s poem “The Doom Chant of Than-Kul.” The Livre d’Ivon is the French version of the Book of Eibon, a Cthulhu Mythos tome created by Clark Ashton Smith. Although Lai says Dirk Struan is Fu Manchu’s father, Farmer identifies his father as Sir William Clayton in Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life. In Win Scott Eckert’s “Being an Account of the Delay at Green River, Wyoming, of Mr. Phileas Fogg, World Traveler,” Dr. Shan Ming Fu, who is meant to be Fu Manchu, mentions his and Fogg’s “shared paternity,” a reference to Farmer’s identification of Fogg as another of Sir William’s many offspring. To make this story compatible with Farmer’s genealogy, we must assume that Fu deceived his daughter about his parentage for reasons of his own. 

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: Miss Bunting

 

In this novel by Angela Thirkell, set like many of her works in Anthony Trollope's Barsetshire, Dr. Dale, the rector of Hallbury in Barsetshire, asks Bishop Joram if he worked in Borrioboola-Gha, but Joram says it was Mngangaland. Borrioboola-Gha is from Charles Dickens’ novel Bleak House.

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: The Late Show

 

L.A.P.D. detective Renée Ballard investigates deaths at a nightclub called the Dancers. Her former partner, Ken Chastain, was the son of a cop killed in the line of duty. After killing a criminal, Renée goes to Carmen Hinojos in the Behavioral Science Unit. The killer’s ex-wife, Beatrice Beaupre, has used the name “Shaquilla Shackles.” The Dancers club is from Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe novel The Long Goodbye. Ken Chastain’s father is John Chastain from Connelly’s Harry Bosch series. Carmen Hinojos is from the Bosch novels The Last Coyote and 9 Dragons. Shaquilla Shackles is mentioned in Connelly’s Mickey Haller novel The Lincoln Lawyer.

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: Cheyne Walk, 1985

 

Are you a Ghostbusters fan?

Then you'll love Josh Reynolds' story in this anthology, which has a nod to that film, as well as strong connections to Reynolds' Royal Occultist series, among others!

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

Crossover Cover: The Greatest Adventure

 

A mega-crossover in which many of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ characters—Jason Gridley; Tarzan, Jane, Korak, Meriem, and La; Ulysses Paxton, John Carter, and Dejah Thoris; Billy Byrne (The Mucker); Bridge and the Oskaloosa Kid (The Oakdale Affair); Barney Custer (The Mad King); Victoria Custer (The Eternal Lover); Jim Stone (“The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw”); Townsend Harper and Virginia Maxon (The Monster Men); Julian the Second (the Moon trilogy); Johnny LaFitte (Pirate Blood); the Rider (The Rider); Shannon Burke (The Girl from Hollywood); and Carson Napier—travel around the world in an airship to prevent a group of villains from getting their hands on a gem called the Eye of Judgment to create a death ray. Pellucidar and Poloda (Beyond the Farthest Star) are also seen. Bowen Tyler and Lys La Rue from Burroughs’ Caspak books are still stranded there in this story. In Burroughs’ original trilogy, the duo was shipwrecked on the island in 1916, and rescued a year later. Tarzan did not meet Jason Gridley, who pulls his old acquaintance into this exploit, until the 1927–1928 events of Tarzan at the Earth’s Core, while Carson Napier first visited Venus in 1928. These and other chronological difficulties place this story outside the continuity of Burroughs’ original novels, making it an AU. 

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: Kolchak: The Night Stalker - 50th Anniversary

 

Are you a fan of the TV series Kolchak: The Night Stalker?

Then you'll love this anthology graphic novel, which has stories that tie in with Frankenstein, The X-Files, Richard Matheson's Hell House, Dracula, The Munsters, and Nosferatu!

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

 

Tricia “Trish the Dish” Jones tells T. S. Quint and Brodie Bruce her book Boregasm has been picked up by Pendant Publishing. Willam Black mistakes Rene Mosier for someone named Brenda. Pendant Publishing is from the TV series Seinfeld. Since that show is in the CU, this connection brings in the movies comprising Kevin Smith’s View Askewniverse, which have many interconnections, including Jay and Silent Bob’s appearances in each film. Rene Mosier is played by Shannen Doherty, who also played Brenda Walsh on the series Beverly Hills, 90210.

This crossover 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 Cover: Dracula's Revenge

 

Are you a Dracula fan?

Then you'll love this novella, which features the Lord of the Undead, recurring characters from author Charles R. Rutledge's fiction, and the Frankenstein monster, as well as a nod to the Ruthvenian from Donald F. Glut's connected works!

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

 

In this episode of Endeavour, Chief Inspector Thursday and his wife attended the Stuart-Hargreaves Dance Studio in Bicester. Murder victim Jean Ward is really the Right Honorable Moira Creighton-Ward. The South Oxfordshire Regiment was at Mboto Gorge. One of the Regiment’s members is Private “Geordie” Collier. A pair of British fascists named Spode and Webley are mentioned. Yvonne and Barry Stuart-Hargreaves were the dance instructors at the holiday camp Maplins in the TV show Hi-de-Hi!, which takes place in 1959-1960. Apparently, they left the camp and opened a dance studio in Bicester sometime between 1960 and 1968. The Right Honorable Moira Creighton-Ward is apparently a relative of Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward from the television series Thunderbirds, which has already been established as a possible future for the CU. The Battle of Mboto Gorge is from the Blackadder Goes Forth episode “Goodbyeee.” Private Collier may be Newcastle native Terry Collier from the television series The Likely Lads. Terry joined the army in the last episode. Roderick Spode is from P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves novels. Everard Webley is from Aldous Huxley’s Point Counter Point. 

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: Watch Your Back, Mr. Minamoto

 

Are you a John P. Marquand fan?

Then you'll love this chapbook by Frank Schildiner, in which a mysterious Japanese man called Mr. Minamoto takes on Jack London's Assassination Bureau, Ltd.!

For more information, including the other crossovers in this chapbook, be sure to buy copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2! Incidentally, not only was this story also published by Meteor House, but it shares its cover artist, the enormously talented Keith Howell, with Crossovers Expanded!

Crossover Cover: Improbable as It May Seem - The Impossible Man is Back in Town!

 

The Thing (Ben Grimm) has regained his powers and rocklike form, having previously lost both and used an exoskeleton created by Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards) to replicate them. Ben says to Reed, “I tore outta your precious exoskeleton like Doc Savage rippin’ a t-shirt!” A year after this adventure, Ben and his teammate Johnny Storm (the Human Torch) will have a cross-time exploit with Doc and two of his aides.

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 Episodes: Terminus

 

Are you a James Bond fan?

Then you'll love the Endeavour episode "Terminus," which has a nod to Thunderball, as well as the TV series On the Buses and the Doctor Who serial "The Mind of Evil!"

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

Crossover Covers: Neck and Neck

 

Sergeant Beef investigates two murders, those of his biographer Lionel Townsend’s aunt and a publisher. Beef tells Townsend he’d like to know what’s happening between his (Townsend’s) brother Vincent and their relative Edith Payne. Townsend says that there’s nothing going on between them, to which Beef replies, “That’s what I mean...It’s like the old Sherlock Holmes gag of the behavior of the dog in the night.” The publisher’s secretary compares Townsend to Dr. Watson and Captain Hastings. Beef complains, “As I’ve said before, hardly anybody seems to have heard the name Beef. Now take Hercule Poirot..." The publisher’s stepson is a Major in the 10th Loamshires. Sherlock Holmes’ famous quote about the curious incident of the dog in the night-time appears in Doyle and Watson’s “The Adventure of Silver Blaze.” Captain Arthur Hastings is Hercule Poirot’s friend and sometime biographer, whose accounts were edited for publication by Agatha Christie. The Loamshire Regiment appears in several works of fiction, including H. C. “Sapper” McNeile’s Bulldog Drummond novels, Evelyn Waugh’s Put Out More Flags and Men at Arms, and the movie The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. The English county of Loamshire is originally from George Eliot’s novels. 

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 of the Week

Autumn 1902

THE IGNOBLE SPORTSMEN 

Sherlock Holmes investigates the inexplicable deaths of members of the Fellowship of Herne, a club that hunts humans. The Fellowship’s members include Englishmen, Americans, Canadians, and a few Russians. When Watson idly suggests an invisible animal could be responsible for the deaths, Holmes replies, “There was a strange case, out in the American Southwest, a year or two ago. A man named Morgan was found dead, out among the chaparral. The local constabulary thought it was murder, at first, but...The human eye is an imperfect instrument, Watson. Some things are beyond its perception. There’s supposedly a fellow in West Sussex who’s doing some interesting research into such matters, but for the moment we are forced to rely on it.” The Great Detective and his Boswell have visited Bluegate Fields often, most recently during an investigation into the disappearance of a young aristocrat named Gray. Holmes and Watson crack the case with the help of a Pinkerton named Leverton, who mentions the Red Circle. 

Short story by Dr. Watson, edited by Josh Reynolds in Gaslight Gothic: Strange Tales of Sherlock Holmes, J. R. Campbell and Charles Prepolec, eds., EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2018. One of the Russian members of the Fellowship of Herne is probably General Zaroff from Richard Connell’s story “The Most Dangerous Game.” Hugh Morgan is from Ambrose Bierce’s story “The Damned Thing.” The fellow in Sussex is Griffin from H. G. Wells’ The Invisible Man. Gray is the title character of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. Leverton is from Doyle and Watson’s “The Adventure of the Red Circle,” which Baring-Gould placed in 1902. “The Damned Thing” was first published in 1893, and the events of The Invisible Man take place in 1896. Therefore, Watson must have been engaging in his recurring chronological misdirection by changing Holmes’ words to make the events regarding Morgan and Griffin seem more recent. 

This crossover write up 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: To Wake the Dead

 

Are you a John Dickson Carr fan?

Then you'll love this book in his Dr. Gideon Fell series, which has a connection to one of his Sir Henry Merrivale novels!

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

Crossover Cover: Joe Ledger: Unstoppable

 

This anthology of stories featuring Jonathan Maberry's character Joe Ledger has several stories in which the contributors have Ledger meeting their own characters.

In Jon McGoran's "Strange Harvest," Ledger and McGoran's detective Doyle Carrick investigate a pharmaceutical corporation. 

In Scott Sigler's "Vacation," Ledger, vacationing in San Francisco, is asked to investigate the murder of two DEA agents. Inspector Lawrence “Pookie” Chang takes Ledger to the mansion of a possible suspect, Jebediah Erickson. Chang and Erickson are from Sigler’s novel Nocturnal.

In Larry Correia's "Psych Eval," the Department of Military Sciences must deal with a demonically possessed agent. Agent Franks has been contacted and is on his way. Franks is from Correia’s Monster Hunter International series.

In Jeremy Robinson's "Prince of Peace," an enigmatic group takes Joe Ledger and Chess Team’s Jack Sigler prisoner. Chess Team is the subject of a series of novels by Robinson. 

In James R. Tuck's "White Flame on Sunday," Ledger joins forces with monster hunter Deacon Chalk to combat a Sumerian elephant cult. Like Ledger, Tuck’s character Deacon Chalk has several solid links to the CU. 

Dana Fredsti's "Crash Course" features Ledger in the world of Fredsti’s Ashley Parker series, which takes place after a zombie apocalypse. Obviously, this would be an AU.

These crossovers are among the 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!