"No ghosts need apply." [SUSS] 


Holmes and the occult is our subject for this Halloween episode of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere, and we're joined by editor and author , who together with J.R. Campbell edited , , and , joins us to talk about the intersection of Sherlock Holmes and the spooky, outre and creepy, setting the tone for the season.  Charles (who goes by  on Twitter), had the great fortune to work with the likes of Barbara Hambly, Martin Powell and Kim Newman, among others, and he talks about the selection process for including authors and their works in the anthologies.

Of course, Conan Doyle was no stranger to writing , and his Professor Challenger series dealt with such fantastical subjects as dinosaurs. We take Charles on a tangent and begin discussing the ideal Hollywood actor to portray the professor.

 has contributed to Sherlock Magazine, Scarlet Street and Canadian Holmes and is a longtime Sherlockian, having been a member of the  in Calgary for 20 years and a Master Bootmaker of the  in 2006. He spends his days at the  in Calgary and reading voraciously. 

Our gas-lamp is not a Gas-Lamp at all, but rather an introduction by to a collection of Conan Doyle stories, as written by John Dickson Carr.

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Conan Doyle fanstasy and horror short stories "," "," and ""
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Lyndsay Faye, BSI ("Kitty Winter") is on a book tour to promote , her latest Timothy Wilde novel.
Big Chief Studios announced  of Cumberbatch's Holmes and Freeman's Watson, and .
There will be no romance between Holmes and Watson in Elementary, .
James O'Leary has contributed a couple of significant pieces here about Elementary that are worth perusing: "," and "."
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