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The game is afoot! Night Shade Books is proud to present the fantastic adventures of the world's greatest detective — mystery, fantasy, science fiction, horror, no genre can escape the esteemed detective's needle-sharp intellect and intuition. This reprint anthology showcases the best Holmes short fiction from the last 25 years, featuring stories by such visionaries as Stephen King, Neil Gaimen, Laura King, and many others.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
In a satisfyingly chunky 450-page anthology entitled "The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", John Joseph Adams has gathered twenty-eight curious accounts by a remarkable array of authors. Amy Myers rubs shoulders with Michael Moorcock, Stephen King with Anne Perry, Edward D Hoch with Laurie R King, Tanith Lee with Peter Tremayne. The contributors seem to be drawn equally from the worlds of crime fiction and science-fantasy, so it's no real surprise to discover that the problems facing the great detective range from the rationally explicable to the frankly irrational. Sometimes, as Mr Adams says, you can't eliminate the impossible. What all these tales have in common is improbability, and we can't say we weren't warned. On a literary level, Anthony Burgess's `Murder to Music' and Neil Gaiman's `A Study in Emerald', completely different otherwise, are superb. It's a grand collection altogether. My only reservation is that half of these stories are reprinted from anthologies that are still easily available.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Only half way through this fantastic short-story collection but the quality of the stories and of the readings is simply amazing. The drive home from work now has an added reason to be anticipated! Atmospheric, thoughtful and capturing the originals in tone and style. Wonderful work and all the better for being read/performed so exquisitely!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Being a lover of all things Sherlockian and a bit of a fan of fantasy/steampunk and sci-fi I assumed that this would be an off beat oddball mix, especially with the various authors mentioned in the blurb.
I have to say that I have been sadly disappointed. Okay, I can live without the mix I expected as all these short stories even written by primarily sci-fi authors could have been good pastiches. Not the case at all. With the one notable exception all are second rate and very derivative. It's almost as if they have all been told to write a short story at school with Sherlock Holmes as the theme whilst in detention. No real surprises and everything done by the numbers with as little effort as possible to get by.
However there is one notable exception. The first short written by the one author I thought I would least like turned out to have got the idea. Seems that Stephen King changed my pre-conception. He nailed the baroque and Gothic feel of Victorian London perfectly. His Sherlock is suitably dark and flawed with a perfect balance of Watson. Maybe his horror roots lend themselves to this type of story. Regardless, he was a shining beacon amongst the dross. The story is fairly standard - which I would spoil if I told here - however he creates just the right dark tone and depth that all of the other contributors could not.
Overall, I'd have to say give this a miss.
I have to say that I have been sadly disappointed. Okay, I can live without the mix I expected as all these short stories even written by primarily sci-fi authors could have been good pastiches. Not the case at all. With the one notable exception all are second rate and very derivative. It's almost as if they have all been told to write a short story at school with Sherlock Holmes as the theme whilst in detention. No real surprises and everything done by the numbers with as little effort as possible to get by.
However there is one notable exception. The first short written by the one author I thought I would least like turned out to have got the idea. Seems that Stephen King changed my pre-conception. He nailed the baroque and Gothic feel of Victorian London perfectly. His Sherlock is suitably dark and flawed with a perfect balance of Watson. Maybe his horror roots lend themselves to this type of story. Regardless, he was a shining beacon amongst the dross. The story is fairly standard - which I would spoil if I told here - however he creates just the right dark tone and depth that all of the other contributors could not.
Overall, I'd have to say give this a miss.
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