Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings based on Waiting on Wednesday that was created and run by Breaking the Spine where each Wednesday you get to showcase a book that you are really looking forward to and that has yet to be released.
This week I’ve chosen:
Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons by James Lovegrove.
1894. The monstrous Hound of the Baskervilles has been dead for five years, along with its no less monstrous owner, the naturalist Jack Stapleton. Sir Henry Baskerville is living contentedly at Baskerville Hall with his new wife Audrey and their three-year-old son Harry.
Until, that is, Audrey’s lifeless body is found on the moors, drained of blood. It would appear some fiendish creature is once more at large on Dartmoor and has, like its predecessor, targeted the unfortunate Baskerville family. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are summoned to Sir Henry’s aid, and our heroes must face a marauding beast that is the very stuff of nightmares. It seems that Stapleton may not have perished in the Great Grimpen Mire after all, as Holmes believed, and is hell-bent on revenge…
Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons is scheduled for release on October 13th, 2020 by Titan Books. I’m a big fan of Lovegrove’s Holmes stories and thoroughly enjoyed his last full-length standalone Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon, his last short story collection The Manifestations of Sherlock Holmes and his The Cthulu Casebooks trilogy (the Shadwell Shadows, the Miskatonic Monstrosities and the Sussex Sea-Devils) which blends together Conan Doyle’s creations of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson with H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulu mythos too. A continuation of The Hound of the Baskervilles, the Beast of the Stapletons sounds like it could be brilliant too and I love the cover.
About James Lovegrove.
James Lovegrove is the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Odin. He was short-listed for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1998 and for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 2004, and also reviews fiction for the Financial Times. He is the author of Firefly: Big Damn Hero with Nancy Holder and Firefly: The Magnificent Nine, and several Sherlock Holmes novels for Titan Books. He lives in south-east England.
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Great pick. I quite enjoyed Lovegrove’s Pantheon series but I’ve never read his Holmes books.
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I’ve never read them, but love his Holmes stuff.
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Admittedly, this is the first I’m hearing of Lovegrove, but The Cthulu Casebooks series sounds like an epic cross-over experience. I’m curious to see how he pulled that one off haha.
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It is definitely an intriguing cross over, weird too, but it works really well. The only downside is the names/terms used for the Cthulu stuff, an absolute nightmare to try and pronounce.😂
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Oh wow this book sounds awesome and right up my alley. I also am super interested in the Sherlock Holmes and Cthulu books. I wouldn’t have put those two stories together but that just sounds like such a great idea.
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Yeah, they are definitely a strange mix, but it is a mix that works really well and it is a great idea that is really enjoyable.
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Also really looking forward to this. I’ll no doubt pick it up eventually if not offered an ARC. The cover, much like Christmas Demon, is so elegant!
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Elegant is definitely the right word, they are truly wonderful covers. Alas, I haven’t been offered an ARC yet and it is out soon so guess I’ll be picking it up at some point too.
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Not seen you on the blog for a little while? Taking a blog vacation?
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Yeah, just needed to step away for a little while from the blog and SM, posted a wrap-up today which was my first post in about three weeks.
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