![]() ![]() ![]() The flashback takes place in Arkham and it is essentially a Cthulhu short novella. It provides background to the mystery, but it could be a standalone story and it would have no more tie-in to Holmes than an account of my going out to lunch yesterday. It reminds me of the Mormon interlude in A Study in Scarlet and it takes up thirty-five percent of the book.įully one-third of this novel has nothing to do with Holmes or Watson. Holmes and Watson find a journal and read it. Lovegrove chose to use that novella model and it’s my biggest complaint about the book. Somewhere in another Black Gatepost, I calculated the percentage that Holmes is absent in each of the four novellas which Doyle wrote featuring the great detective. The darkness exists because Holmes, with Watsons’s assistance, waged a career-long war with the otherworld beings of the Cthulhu mythos. ![]() In a nutshell, Watson has written three journals, each covering events fifteen years apart, to try and get some of the darkness out of his soul. And that’s because the truth is too horrible to reveal. He did so to cover up the real truth behind Holmes’ work. The basic premise of the… trilogy is that Watson made up the sixty stories in the Canon. I wasn’t quite as fond of the second installment, though not because it’s a bad book. And this December, it’s on to book two, Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities. Last December I wrote about Sherlock Holmes & the Shadwell Shadows, volume one of James Lovegrove’s Cthulhu Casebooks trilogy. ![]()
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