Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Crossover Cover: The Peaslee Papers

 

Are you a fan of the Halloween films?

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

For more information, make sure you pick up a copy of 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!

Monday, October 30, 2023

Crossover Radio Episode: The Hollywood Story

 

New York City-based private eye Richard Diamond works a case on the coast, and says California has some good private eyes, such as Sam Spade and Pat Novak. Richard Diamond is already in the CU, and the references to Wold Newton Family member Sam Spade (from Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon and the radio series The Adventures of Sam Spade) and Pat Novak (from the radio show Pat Novak, for Hire) further cement his presence. 

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!

Sunday, October 29, 2023

Crossover of the Week

Winter 1925

THE CREEPING CRAWLERS OF CLAVERING 

Charles St. Cyprian, the Royal Occultist, and his assistant Ebe Gallowglass are summoned to Clavering Grange by Philip Wendy-Smythe. St. Cyprian carried his fair share of bags when he’d played batman for Carnacki. The Sign of Koth is marked on the billiards room door in jam. Wendy-Smythe has one of Vance’s monographs on elementals and has just completed the first English translation of The Book of Minor Grotesques. St. Cyprian says he’ll resolve matters in two shakes of a Shadmock’s tail and mentions the time a dog got into the Drones. He also traces the sign of Hloh in the air and takes the Voorish Sign out of a box decorated in Hyperborean iconography. The sound of rodents reminds Gallowglass of Exham Priory. 

Short story by Josh Reynolds in Shadmocks & Shivers: New Stories Inspired by the Stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Dave Brzeski, ed., Shadow Publishing, 2019. Clavering Grange is the setting of a series of books and stories by R. Chetwynd-Hayes. Thomas Carnacki is from William Hope Hodgson’s Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder. The Sign of Koth is from H. P. Lovecraft’s The Case of Charles Dexter Ward and “The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.” Vance is Alice and Claude Askew’s occult investigator Aylmer Vance. The Book of Minor Grotesques is a recurring tome in Reynolds’ fiction. The Shadmock is from Chetwynd-Hayes’ eponymous story in the linked collection The Monster Club. The Drones Club is from the works of P. G. Wodehouse. Hloh is from Margery Lawrence’s Miles Pennoyer stories. The Voorish Sign is from Lovecraft’s “The Dunwich Horror.” Hyperborea is from the fiction of Clark Ashton Smith. Exham Priory is from Lovecraft’s “The Rats in the Walls.” Since the Clavering Grange stories are in the CU, so are Chetwynd-Hayes’ tales of psychic detective Francis St. Clare and his sidekick Frederica Masters, who visited Clavering in “The Cringing Couple of Clavering.”

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! 

Saturday, October 28, 2023

Crossover Cover: Sherlock Holmes: The Australian Casebook

 

The premise of this anthology is that Holmes and Watson spent several months in 1890, a year with supposedly little recorded data on Holmes’ cases, in Australia, originally to battle Guy Boothby's villain Dr. Nikola, but also solving several other cases along the way. Unfortunately, Baring-Gould placed no less than three cases in 1890, and too many crossover pastiches involving Holmes set in 1890 have been included in the CU for he and his Boswell to have spent more than a few days in Australia. Luckily, only two of the stories have crossovers. In Doug Elliott's "The Adventure of the Flash of Silver," Watson mentions the Nikola Formulae. In Christopher Sequeira's "The Dirranbandi Station Mystery," Holmes is hired to find a missing station hand. His client mentions bushrangers such as Captain Starlight, his colleague Warrigal, and Stingaree. Later, Holmes and Watson encounter Stingaree himself. Captain Starlight and Warrigal are from Rolf Boldrewood’s novel Robbery Under Arms. The Stingaree is from E. W. Hornung’s novel of the same name. 

These crossovers are two 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 Volume 1 and 2!

Friday, October 27, 2023

Crossover Comic: The Headless Horseman

 

Are you a fan of Washington Irving?

Then you'll love the Ibis the Invincible story in Whiz Comics #30, which pits the heroic magician against the Headless Horseman!

For more information, make sure you 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!

Thursday, October 26, 2023

Crossover Movie Poster: Hatchet III

 

Amanda Perlman Fowler, a blogger and expert on urban legends, is killed by ghostly slasher Victor Crowley. Amanda Fowler is played by Caroline Williams, who has stated that Amanda is really Vanita “Stretch” Brock, her character from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, who changed her name and married and subsequently divorced Sheriff Louis Fowler. 

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!

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Crossover Cover: Past Prologue

 

Are you a fan of Steve Berry's Cotton Malone series?

Then you'll love this story, which has him crossing time to encounter Jamie Fraser from Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series!

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!

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Crossover TV Episode: The Librarians and the Heart of Darkness

 

The Heisserer Index of “mystery houses” includes the House on Haunted Hill (where a group of paranormal researchers died in madness and terror) and the Dionaea House. The House on Haunted Hill is from the movie of the same name. Two people died in the House in the movie, but no one went insane, nor were any of the people gathered at the House paranormal researchers, so this must have been a separate incident at the same house. Dionaea House was the subject of a viral internet story by screenwriter Eric Heisserer (after whom the Index was named) from 2004-2006. 

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!

Monday, October 23, 2023

Crossover Cover: Athena Voltaire and the Sorcerer Pope




Are you a Casablanca fan?

Then you'll love this comic, which has ties not only to that classic film, but also to Talbot Mundy's The Nine Unknown and Citizen Kane!

For more information, be sure you 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!

Sunday, October 22, 2023

Crossover of the Week

Spring 1876

SOUL OF THE EAST 

 The Lone Ranger and Tonto deliver some outlaws to Marshal Dave Bliss, who is grateful he listened to Marshal County and trusted them. One of the best witnesses against the outlaws was killed in a gunfight with Swifty Morgan. Bliss says Morgan is one of the fastest guns, along with Herod, Mortimer, Grimm, Hickok, Holliday, and the Ranger himself. The Ranger, Tonto, and an Asian man whose life they saved are confronted by Sheriff Amos Polk, who will soon be leaving his post to become a judge. The Japanese man, Sora Nagamasa, tells the Ranger his would-be killers’ client, Clive Cooper, is one of the junior partners of the Cooper-Tillman Company, an American trading firm based in China, who are treated as underlings by the most powerful company there, Struans. Nagamasa is really Sora Minamoto, spy and soldier for the Emperor of Japan, who usually works under the shortened version of his name, Moto. 

Short story by Frank Schildiner in The Lone Ranger and Tonto: Frontier Justice, Matthew Baugh, ed., Moonstone Books, 2018. Marshal Dave Bliss is from the movie Hang 'Em High. Marshal County is the father of the title character of the television series The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. Swifty Morgan is from the movie Support Your Local Gunfighter. John Herod is from the movie The Quick and the Dead. Colonel Douglas Mortimer is from the film For a Few Dollars More. Judge Amos Polk is from the TV movies The Over-the-Hill Gang and The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again. The Cooper-Tillman Company and Struan and Sons are from James Clavell’s Tai-Pan. Sora Minamoto is an ancestor of John P. Marquand’s Japanese spy Mr. Moto, who appears under the name Minamoto in Schildiner’s chapbook Watch Your Back, Mr. Minamoto.

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!

Saturday, October 21, 2023

Crossover Cover: Challenge

 

Bulldog Drummond and Ronald Standish investigate the murder of a colleague of theirs who was traveling to Newhaven by boat. This 1937 novel by “Sapper” (H. C. McNeile) marks the third and final crossover between Drummond and Standish. 

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!

Friday, October 20, 2023

Crossover Cover: A Three Pie Problem

 

Are you a Sherlock Holmes fan?

Then you'll love Brad Mengel's story in this anthology, "A Three Pie Problem," which has references to British story paper detectives Sexton Blake and Nelson Lee, as well as Klimo from Guy Boothby's A Prince of Swindlers!

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!

Thursday, October 19, 2023

Crossover TV Episode: The Jackal Job

 

In this episode of Leverage: Redemption, the Leverage team tries to find a legendary con artist who now has Alzheimer’s called the Jackal’s greatest score before her abusive caregiver can. One of the Jackal’s cons was in Beaumont-sur-Mer. The Jackal and Beaumont-sur-Mer are from the 1988 movie Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. In the film, the Jackal's real name is Janet Colgate and she's played by Glenne Headly, but in “The Jackal Job,” her real name is Stella Voleur, and she's played by Joanna Cassidy. Since the first syllables of the name “Janet Colgate” are “Ja” and “Col” (Jackal), and “voleur” is French for thief, both are likely aliases. 

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!

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Crossover Cover: Claws of Satan

 

Are you a fan of Clayton Rawson's mysteries starring magician the Great Merlini?

Then you'll love one of the stories in this collection, "Claws of Satan," which has a shout-out to Merlini!

For more information, make sure you purchase a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! Like the first two volumes, this one is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Crossover Cover: Revenant Season

 

Blade, Frank Drake, and Hannibal King, now occult investigators, battle Hydra’s Department of Occult Armaments. In D.O.A.’s headquarters, an announcement is made over the P.A.: “Attention religious artifacts division–observe safety guidelines when opening Arks of the Covenant! Don’t look into the light–” Blade, Drake, and King first appeared in the Marvel series Tomb of Dracula. The reference to the Ark of the Covenant and not looking into the light is an allusion to Raiders of the Lost Ark. Given its many appearances in the CU, the Ark, like the Maltese Falcon, seems to change hands often.

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!

Monday, October 16, 2023

Crossover Movie Poster: Speed

 

Are you a fan of the Die Hard movies?

Then you'll love the connection to them in this film!

For more details, be sure to purchase a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! Much 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!

Sunday, October 15, 2023

Crossover of the Week

Spring 1966

THE REVELATION OF THE YETI 

In Africa, Doctor Omega asks Barton Werper if he’s ever been to Vulcan. Werper says their guide is Robert John Kilgore, aka Ki-Gor, and that his biographical subject is the most famous Jungle Lord, but there were earlier ones in India, such as Mowgli. The Doctor mistakenly refers to Ki-Gor as “John-Gor.” Ki-Gor describes Werper’s father, Lt. Werper of the Belgian Army, as almost as poor of an abuser of the native peoples of Africa as that ivory trader in the Congo. Accompanying them on their search for the Yeti is Nora the Ape-Woman. The Doctor recalls meeting two other animal-human hybrids, Paula Dupree and Felifax. Ki-Gor once found a lost Egyptian civilization called Memphre which some say is, like Opar or Kor, one of the lost colonies of Karkosa. Ki-Gor says some claim that vile cults lurk at their destination of a kind unseen since the days of Solomon Kane. Werper remembers some of the names of the beings presumably worshipped by these cults, such as Cthulhu, Azathoth, and Dagon, members of the Great Old Ones. Doctor Omega tells his traveling companions about the Tcho-Tcho. Nora heard about the Jermyn family in the Congo. Through a dimensional shift, they find themselves on the Plateau of Leng. Nora identifies some runes as written in Aklo. According to the Doctor the Yeti are called the Mi-Go on Pluto, where they serve Yog-Sothoth. Omega speculates that a door he sees is a spatial portal, an artifact of the Ancients. A quartet of sorcerers consists of Doctor Karswell; Madame Palmyre, who worships an entity called Baal; Cristaldi, a Mexican warlock who once fought Dracula; and the Master, who worships a god called Manos. The Doctor is puzzled on hearing the Master’s name. 

Short story by Atom Mudman Bezecny in Tales of the Shadowmen Volume 12: Carte Blanche, Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier, eds., Black Coat Press, 2015; reprinted in French in Les Compagnons de l’Ombre (Tome 22), Jean-Marc Lofficier, ed., Rivière Blanche, 2018. Doctor Omega is from Arnould Galopin’s titular novel; Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier’s adaptation and translation identified him with the Doctor from the television series Doctor Who. Vulcan is from the Doctor Who serial “The Power of the Daleks.” The Doctor’s archenemy is his fellow Time Lord the Master. “Barton Werper” was the nom de plume used by Peter and Peg Scott for a series of unauthorized Tarzan novels in the 1960s. Robert Kilgour (spelled “Kilgore” here), aka Ki-Gor, appeared in tales by John Murray Reynolds and various authors using the pen name “John Peter Drummond” in the pulp Jungle Stories. Memphre is from the Ki-Gor tales. Mowgli is from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. Jongor is the hero of a series of novels by Robert Moore Williams. Lt. Werper is from Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar. The ivory trader in the Congo is Kurtz from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Nora the Ape-Woman is the title character of Félicien Champsaur’s novel. Paula Dupree is from the movies Captive Wild Woman, Jungle Woman, and The Jungle Captive. Felifax is from Paul Féval, fils’ Felifax, the Tiger-Man. Kor is from H. Rider Haggard’s She novels. “Karkosa” is a reference to the kingdom of Khokarsa from Philip José Farmer’s novels of Ancient Opar. Farmer meant Khokarsa to be the same location described in Ambrose Bierce’s “An Inhabitant of Carcosa.” Solomon Kane is Robert E. Howard’s Puritan adventurer. The Great Old Ones, including Cthulhu, Azathoth, Dagon, and Yog-Sothoth, and the Plateau of Leng are from H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. The Tcho-Tcho are from August Derleth’s contributions to the Mythos. The Jermyns are from Lovecraft’s “Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family.” The Aklo language is from Arthur Machen’s “The White People”; Lovecraft later used it in “The Dunwich Horror” and “The Haunter of the Dark.” The Mi-Go are from Lovecraft’s “The Whisperer in Darkness.” Craig Hinton’s Millennial Rites identified the Great Intelligence from the Doctor Who serial “The Abominable Snowmen” with Yog-Sothoth. The Ancients are from the movie Stargate and its television spin-offs. Karswell is from M. R. James’ “Casting the Runes.” Madame Palmyre and Baal are from Renée Dunan’s Baal. Cristaldi is from the movie Santo and Blue Demon vs. Dracula and the Wolf Man. The Master (not the Doctor’s foe) and Manos are from the movie Manos: The Hands of Fate.  

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!

Saturday, October 14, 2023

Crossover Cover: Initials Only

 

Policeman Caleb Sweetwater investigates the mysterious death of a young heiress with the help of veteran cop Ebenezer Gryce. This 1911 novel by Anna Katharine Green teams up her two series detectives, Caleb Sweetwater and Ebenezer Gryce, who would meet again in the 1917 novel The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow. Since Gryce is in the CU, so is Sweetwater. 

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!

Friday, October 13, 2023

Crossover Cover: Deep State

 

Are you a fan of the Friday the 13th films?

Then you'll love this novella in Christopher Farnsworth's The President's Vampire series, which has a reference to Crystal Lake, New Jersey, among other crossovers!

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!

Thursday, October 12, 2023

Crossover Cover: Designs of the Blood Eagle


Semi-Dual and his aides Gordon Glace and Jim Bryce battle a villain called the Blood Eagle, who is using a Hyde formula to remove inhibitions. Semi’s ally Hiwot says Robert Louis Stevenson’s account of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was based in fact. At Semi’s request, Gordon and Jim enlist the aid of Professor Xenophon Xerxes Zapt. Semi has been corresponding with a young explorer named Croft, who will soon attempt to reach Sirius, having sensed his soulmate calling to him. Occult detective Semi-Dual (or Prince Abdul Omar, to use his real name) appeared in tales by J. U. Giesy and Junius B. Smith in The Cavalier and Argosy All-Story Weekly from 1912-1934. Professor Xenophon Xerxes Zapt was the subject of four comedic stories by Giesy in All-Story Magazine and Weird Tales from 1915-1925. Croft is Jason Croft, the protagonist of Giesy's novels Palos of the Dog Star Pack, The Mouthpiece of Zitu, and Jason, Son of Jason. Semi-Dual and Mr. Hyde are in the CU, so this novel brings in Professor Zapt and Jason Croft.

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!

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Crossover Cover: Fated

 

Are you a fan of Jim Butcher's series The Dresden Files?

Then you'll love the first novel in Benedict Jacka's Alex Verus series, which has a shout-out to Harry Dresden!

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!

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Crossover Cover: Through Mirrors Darkly

 

The barbarian-king Rogan and the ex-Amish magus Levi Stoltzfus have very similar adventures separated by millennia. Rogan says Kharrn would have helped him, but he was arrested. Rogan was cocreated by Keene and Steven L. Shrewsbury. Levi Stoltzfus is a recurring character of Keene’s. The immortal barbarian Kharrn is from Charles R. Rutledge’s fiction. 

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!

Monday, October 9, 2023

Crossover Covers: Going Underground

 





Are you a Doctor Who fan?

Then you'll love "Going Underground," the first storyline of Gordon Rennie and Dom Reardon's comic Caballistics, Inc., which references not only that show, but also the Quatermass serials and the Cthulhu Mythos!

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! 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!

Sunday, October 8, 2023

Crossover of the Week

Spring 2008

NEKROPOLIS 

Ex-Cleveland policeman Matthew Richter is now a zombie P.I. in Nekropolis, a city founded centuries ago by wizards and monsters within a pocket dimension of eternal night where monsters live openly. Appearing or mentioned are Carl; Erich Zann; a Gill-Man; the Transparent Woman; the Mariner; Dr. Moreau; the Phantom of the Paradise; Victor Baron; a female descendant of Dr. Jekyll who uses a version of her forebear’s formula to change genders; and Marley’s ghost. 

2009 novel by Tim Waggoner. Carl is Carl Kolchak, who now runs a newspaper in Nekropolis. Erich Zann is from H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Music of Erich Zann.” The Gill-Men are from the movie Creature from the Black Lagoon and its sequels. The Transparent Woman is a descendant of H. G. Wells’ Invisible Man who botched her ancestor’s formula so that only her skin turned invisible, not her organs and skeleton. The Mariner is from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Dr. Moreau is either the doctor from H. G. Wells’ novel or a descendant. The Phantom of the Paradise is from the movie of the same name. Victor Baron is one of the monsters created by the Frankenstein family, now living in the Nekropolis and carrying on his creator’s work. Dr. Jekyll needs no introduction. Jacob Marley’s ghost is from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Nekropolis is similar to the Nightside, from Simon R. Green’s series of novels, but the relationship between the two has yet to be revealed. 

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!

Saturday, October 7, 2023

Crossover Cover: What Happened at Hazelwood


Inspector Cadover investigates the murder of Sir George Simney. Inspector Appleby is mentioned several times. Innes’ series character Sir John Appleby is solidly in the CU already. Cadover reappeared in The Journeying Boy, which also contained references to Appleby, and then actually met Sir John in A Private View and “The Key.”

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!