Nowadays there is a plethora of detectives in both book and film who may seem to use the trappings of crime solvers, but get involved in the supernatural. William Hjortsberg's Falling Angel (the book that led to the movie Angel Heart) is a fine example, an expert blending of gumshoe and deviltry that is one of my favorite books. Likewise, in the movies, we have cops facing a demon in Denzel Washington's Fallen that plays like a police procedural taken to a very dark place.

My interest goes further back to the "gentleman detective" era where we have seekers of truth in Blackwood's John Silence Sherlock Holmes and William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki.

These three novellas were originally collected in the Dark Regions Press volume THE LONDON TERRORS. These new versions bring them back into print for the first time since that limited edition hardcover and paperback run.


The best brains in the country are being hijacked from London – only the brains, the brutalized bodies being discarded after surgery.

The chase to find the perpetrators takes Holmes and Watson to Scotland, and a factory where they discover invaders that have designs not just on London, but the whole planet.

Can Holmes stop the alien schemes in time?


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Three businessmen have discovered a unique avenue to fame and fortune, but when an unseen force begins to kill them off, Holmes and Watson must uncover the secret of the sarcophagus they have brought out of Persia.

And time is of the essence, for something walks the streets of London, something looking for revenge at having been woken from its long sleep.


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The case of a lost husband leads Holmes and Watson into the bowels of the new Underground system, where they uncover a fiendish scheme – the recently deceased are being forced to work as unpaid labor in the tunnels. And soon the walking dead come up into the city itself, spreading mayhem and disease.

Holmes must find the perpetrator of these atrocities, and stop him, before the plague engulfs London.


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Masterfully written, extraordinarily entertaining, and in doing full justice to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s enormously popular detective, “Sherlock Holmes: The London Terrors” is a ‘must read’ for the legions of Sherlock Holmes fans. - The Midwest Book Review