Archivi Cthulhu. Gli abominevoli casi di Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes Cthulhu Casebooks #1-3

by James Lovegrove

Una serie di morti misteriose che flagella l'East End londinese, cadaveri con il volto pietrificato in uno sguardo di puro terrore; un paziente dell'ospedale psichiatrico orrendamente mutilato e dalla psiche devastata; tre giovani donne scomparse. A indagare Sherlock Holmes e il dottor Watson, ai quali il destino ha riservato il compito di fronteggiare una minaccia ben più grave di qualsiasi atto il manifestarsi di forze oscure in una serie di vicende, fino a oggi rimaste segrete, che riscrivono la storia del grande detective. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle incontra H.P. Lovecraft in questo trittico di romanzi che vedono Holmes impegnato a difendere la civiltà dall'assedio di un nemico che si cela al di là del i Grandi Antichi, presenze ultraterrene di cui il mondo non è ancora pronto a conoscere il segreto. Il volume contiene i romanzi Sherlock Holmes e le ombre di Shadwell, Sherlock Holmes e gli orrori del Miskatonic e Sherlock Holmes e i Diavoli Marini del Sussex.

Genres: Horror

928 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 2, 2024

About the author

James Lovegrove is the author of several acclaimed novels and books for children.

James was born on Christmas Eve 1965 and, having dabbled in writing at school, first took to it seriously while at university. A short story of his won a college competition. The prize was £15, and it had cost £18 to get the story professionally typed. This taught him a hard but necessary lesson in the harsh economic realities of a literary career.

Straight after graduating from Oxford with a degree in English Literature, James set himself the goal of getting a novel written and sold within two years. In the event, it took two months. The Hope was completed in six weeks and accepted by Macmillan a fortnight later. The seed for the idea for the novel — a world in microcosm on an ocean liner — was planted during a cross-Channel ferry journey.

James blew his modest advance for The Hope on a round-the-world trip which took him to, among other places, Thailand. His experiences there, particularly what he witnessed of the sex industry in Bangkok, provided much of the inspiration for The Foreigners.

Escardy Gap was co-written with Pete Crowther over a period of a year and a half, the two authors playing a game of creative tag, each completing a section in turn and leaving the other to carry the story on. The result has proved a cult favourite, and was voted by readers of SFX one of the top fifty SF/Fantasy novels of all time.

Days, a satire on consumerism, was shortlisted for the 1998 Arthur C. Clarke Award (losing to Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow). The book’s genesis most probably lies in the many visits James used to make as a child to the Oxford Street department store owned by his grandfather. It was written over a period of nine months while James was living in the north-west suburbs of Chicago.

Subsequent works have all been published to great acclaim. These include Untied Kingdom, Worldstorm, Provender Gleed, The Age Of Ra and the back-to-back double-novella Gig. James has also written for children. Wings, a short novel for reluctant readers, was short-listed for several awards, while his fantasy series for teens, The Clouded World, written under the pseudonym Jay Amory, has been translated into 7 other languages so far. A five-book series for reluctant readers, The 5 Lords Of Pain, is appearing at two-monthly intervals throughout 2010.

He also reviews fiction for the Financial Times, specialising in the Young Adult, children’s, science fiction, fantasy, horror and graphic novel genres.

Currently James resides in Eastbourne on the Sussex Coast, having moved there in August 2007 with his wife Lou, sons Monty and Theo, and cat Ozzy. He has a terrific view of the sea from his study window, which he doesn’t sit staring out at all day when he should be working. Honest.