George Mann - Associates of Sherlock Holmes

He lives with his wife, two sons, cat and tiny dog in Eastbourne, a town famously genteel and favoured by the elderly, but in spite of that he isn’t planning to retire just yet.

William Meikleis a Scottish writer, now living in Canada, with twenty novels published in the genre press and over 300 short story credits in thirteen countries. He has Sherlock Holmes’s collections and novellas available from Dark Regions Press, and a variety of his Sherlockian stories can be found in anthologies. He lives in Newfoundland with whales, bald eagles and icebergs for company. When he’s not writing he drinks beer, plays guitar and dreams of fortune and glory.

Tim Prattis the author of over twenty novels, most recently The Deep Woods and Heirs of Grace , and many short stories. His work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Year’s Best Fantasy, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror , and other nice places. He’s a Hugo Award winner, and has been a finalist for World Fantasy, Sturgeon, Stoker, Mythopoeic, and Nebula Awards, among others. He lives in Berkeley CA and works as a senior editor at Locus , a trade magazine devoted to science fiction and fantasy publishing. He tweets a lot as @timpratt, and his website is www.timpratt.org. He publishes a new short story every month for his Patreon supporters at www.patreon.com/timpratt.

Number one bestselling author Cavan Scotthas written for such popular series as Doctor Who, Star Wars, Vikings, Highlander, Judge Dredd and Blake’s 7 . His first Sherlock Holmes novel, The Patchwork Devil , was published by Titan Books in 2016.

Jeffrey Thomasis an American author of horror and science fiction, the creator of the dark future setting Punktown. His novels include Deadstock and its follow-up Blue War , from Solaris Books, Letters From Hades, Monstrocity, Subject 11, Boneland , and A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Dealers . His short story collections include Punktown, Ghosts of Punktown, Thirteen Specimens, Nocturnal Emissions, Worship the Night, Unholy Dimensions , and (with W. H. Pugmire) Encounters With Enoch Coffin . His stories have been reprinted in The Year’s Best Horror Stories edited by Karl Edward Wagner, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror edited by Ellen Datlow, and Year’s Best Weird Fiction edited by Laird Barron. Thomas lives in Massachusetts.

Edited by George Mann

A brand-new collection of Sherlock Holmes stories from a variety of exciting voices in modern horror and steampunk, edited by respected anthologist George Mann. Stories are told from the point of view of famous associates of the great detective, including Mrs Hudson, Sherlock Holmes, Toby the Dog, Inspector Gregson, and, of course, Professor Moriarty…

AVAILABLE AUGUST 2017

Edited by George Mann

The spirit of Sherlock Holmes lives on in this collection of fourteen brand-new adventures. Marvel as the master of deduction aids a dying Sir Richard Francis Burton; matches wits with gentleman thief, A.J. Raffles; crosses paths with H.G. Wells in the most curious circumstances; unravels a macabre mystery on the Necropolis Express; unpicks a murder in a locked railway carriage; explains the origins of his famous Persian slipper and more!

FEATURING ORIGINAL STORIES FROM

MARK HODDER • MAGS L HALLIDAY CAVAN SCOTT • NICK KYME • PAUL MAGRS GEORGE MANN • STUART DOUGLAS ERIC BROWN • RICHARD DINNICK KELLY HALE • STEVE LOCKLEY MARK WRIGHT • DAVID BARNETT JAMES LOVEGROVE

Edited by George Mann

Once again the spirit of Sherlock Holmes lives on. Wonder at how the world’s greatest consulting detective plays a deadly game with the Marvel of Montmartre; investigates a killing on the high seas; discovers Professor Moriarty’s secret papers; battles a mysterious entity on a Scottish mountain; travels to the Red Planet to solve an interplanetary murder; and solves one last case with Dr Watson Jr!

FEATURING ORIGINAL STORIES FROM

PHILIP PURSER-HALLARD • ANDREW LANE MARK A. LATHAM • NICK CAMPBELL JAMES GOSS WILLIAM • ROY GILL SCOTT HANDCOCK • GUY ADAMS LOU ANDERS • JUSTIN RICHARDS PHILIP MARSH • PATRICK MAYNARD & ALEXANDRA MARTUKOVICH

by George Mann

A rich elderly man has fallen to his death, and his will is nowhere to be found. A tragic accident or something more sinister?

The dead man’s nephew comes to Baker Street to beg for Sherlock Holmes’s help. Without the will he fears he will be left penniless, the entire inheritance passing to his cousin. But just as Holmes and Watson start their investigation, a mysterious new claimant to the estate appears. Does this prove that the old man was murdered? Meanwhile Inspector Charles Bainbridge is trying to solve the case of the “iron men”, mechanical steam-powered giants carrying out daring jewellery robberies. But how do you stop a machine that feels no pain and needs no rest? He too may need to call on the expertise of Sherlock Holmes.

by George Mann

German zeppelins rain down death and destruction on London, and Dr Watson is grieving for his nephew, killed on the fields of France.

A cryptic summons from Mycroft Holmes reunites Watson with his one-time companion, as Sherlock comes out of retirement, tasked with solving three unexplained deaths. A politician has drowned in the Thames after giving a pro-German speech; a soldier suggests surrender before feeding himself to a tiger; and a suffragette renounces women’s liberation and throws herself under a train. Are these apparent suicides something more sinister, something to do with the mysterious Spirit Box? Their investigation leads them to Ravensthorpe House, and the curious Seaton Underwood, a man whose spectrographs are said to capture men’s souls…

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This appears to refer to the three papers published in the first half of 1896 by Sigmund Freud.

The papers of the late Mycroft Holmes from which this account is derived do not date events. They were originally filed in an order that would have made their timing self evident to their maker. Sadly this arrangement was lost in the Blitz, when some of the papers were destroyed and all were scattered. Robert Louis Stevenson died on 3rd December 1894; this, and the earlier reference to Freud suggests that this account dates from 1897 at the earliest.

Mycroft is perhaps here referring to the definition of rational as opposed to superstitious in Hume’s Of Suicide unpublished in the philosopher’s lifetime except as an anonymous private pamphlet.

There is some possibility that this is not a compliment; Mycroft’s papers almost never use the term “ingenious” except in the sense it is used in Ambrose Bierce’s story “The Ingenious Patriot” (1899) where it signifies a technically adept individual with no grasp of the long-term consequences of his actions. This does not, however, in itself date the action to after 1899, as this usage of the word – which is essentially sarcastic – did not originate with Bierce.