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Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes

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edited by Jeff Campbell & Charles Prepolec

Introduction Trade Paperback ISBN-10: 1-894063-17-1 ISBN-13: 978-1-8964063-17-3 5.5" X 8.5" $16.95 US (Free shipping in North America) 304 pages Jeff Campbell editor Charles Prepolec editor AMAZON.COM AMAZON.CA

Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes Editors: Jeff Campbell It was the first thing every book store employee said when they sat down to interview for the job. Sometimes it was uttered at the interview's beginning, sometimes at the end, but it was always said with such earnestness. A sincerity unique to each person who said it. Some years have passed since I managed a book store but I can think of no better words to begin a short biographical essay than those I used when I was a teenager applying for a job at the local book store. My name is Jeff R. Campbell and I love books. Hardly a revelation, I know, but still worth saying. There's no other explanation for the way the book trade has dogged the steps of my adult life, first through the various book stores I worked for, as publisher's regional sales representative and then into writing and publishing ventures of my own. My fiction has appeared in publications as diverse as Spinetingler Magazine, Wax Romantic, and Challenging Destiny. My work can also be heard on the Jim French Radio Production's Imagination Theater and The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. In addition to my writing I've also been privileged enough to edit two previous anthologies of Sherlock Holmes stories with my good friend, and distinguished Sherlockian, Charles Prepolec: Curious Incidents and Curious Incidents 2. A strange but oddly fascinating pastime, one that scratches the old book trade itch while allowing for the consumption of a pint or two of Guinness at the local pub. Of course it's not all writing, editing and visiting pubs. I'm married to a lovely, compassionate and wise (but for loving me; by my troth, it is no addition to her wit) woman named Kim who, at the time of our marriage, had no idea she would end up sharing a name with one of the more infamous of Canada's Prime Ministers. Together we've had three wonderful children (Stephanie, Thomas and Allison) whose virtues deserve more words than I'll spend on them here. All of us currently make our home in Calgary. One of the benefits of living in your hometown is the impressive collection of family and friends we've acquired over the years. There is also, I'm sad to say, a cat but why focus on the negative? I suffer an unusual tolerance for accountancy and book-keeping, a defect which has kept me employed. My interests seem wide and varied but I suspect everyone feels the same about their interests. As a young man I thought Rock and Roll was something people grew out of but, so far at least, that doesn't seem to be the case. I also enjoy folk songs from Scotland and Newfoundland (God's revenge for the way I used to tease the kid next door about his accordion lessons). I cheer for the Calgary Flames with an enthusiasm I know to be annoying to fans of other hockey teams but which I enjoy anyway. Other interests include Shakespeare, Star Trek and Sherlock Holmes.   Charles Prepolec Charles V. Prepolec was born in 1966 and is a native of Calgary, AB, Canada. He is a freelance writer, editor and reviewer. His articles, interviews, artwork and reviews have appeared in Scarlet Street, Sherlock, All-Hallows, and Canadian Holmes as well as fanzines Peladon Press and Into the Vortex. He has been acknowledged for various contributions in Starring Sherlock Holmes (Rev. Ed. Titan Books 2007), Sherlock Holmes On Screen (Reynolds and Hearn 2002), Christopher Lee: The Authorised Screen History (Reynolds and Hearn 2001), In All Sincerity……Peter Cushing (Xlibris 2004) and Heroes & Monsters: The Unofficial Companion To The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Monkeybrain Books 2003). Along with his friend and frequent collaborator Jeff Campbell, he has edited two previous Sherlock Holmes anthologies - Curious Incidents Vols. 1&2. He maintains his own Sherlock Holmes website bakerstreetdozen.com. An avid reader from childhood, early obsessions included comic books, Doc Savage reprints, Burroughs’’ John Carter, Fleming’’s James Bond and John Norman’s Gor series. He has always had an appreciation for the works of Jules Verne, Victor Hugo, H.G. Wells, E. A. Poe, Bram Stoker, H.P. Lovecraft, and far too many others to mention. More recent interests include classic weird fiction and contemporary horror anthologies from small press publishers, although his favourite authors come from a variety of genres and include George MacDonald Fraser, Reginald Hill, Terry Pratchett, Kim Newman, Simon Clark, Steve Hockensmith, and Tim Lebbon. In the mid-1980s a chance encounter with the Renegade Press Cases of Sherlock Holmes comic books and a television broadcast of the Granada Sherlock Holmes series sparked an eduring fascination with Arthur Conan Doyle's Great Detective, with a particular interest in film, television and pastiche interpretations of the character. An active member of Calgary’’s local Sherlock Holmes society The Singular Society of the Baker Street Dozen since 1987, Charles is also a member of Canada’’s national Sherlock Holmes group The Bootmakers of Toronto, who in 2006 awarded him Canada’’s highest Sherlockian honour with the designation of Master Bootmaker. He has attended Sherlockian conferences in New York, London, Indianapolis and Toronto, and also spoken about Sherlock Holmes on local and national radio. His collection of Sherlockiana has appeared on display in Theatre Calgary’’s gallery during their 2005 staging of William Gillette’’s play Sherlock Holmes. Leaving behind University studies in History and Education in 1989 he opened Calgary’’s only, now defunct, mystery specialty bookstore Mad For A Mystery, then went on to work for Smithbooks (where he met his wonderfully understanding wife Kristen), Books on Cassette, and Positive Concepts before settling in as operations manager for The Movie Poster Shop in 2001. A major film and television buff, favourites include classic adventure, screwball comedy, mystery and horror films (Universal and Hammer), Doctor Who, Torchwood, and Star Trek. On Sunday afternoons you can frequently find Charles down the pub, Guinness in hand and cigarettes within reach, blissfully chattering with Jeff Campbell about any or all of the above. Contributors: Peter Calamai has been a newspaper reporter for more than four decades, but an aficionado of Sherlock Holmes for merely two. Yet increasingly his heart belongs to the latter. He is a Master Bootmaker  and invested in the Baker Street Irregulars as The Leeds Mercury. Calamai currently lives in Ottawa. M J Elliott's writing credits include episodes of many US radio series. Among the collections he has edited for Wordsworth Publications are several volumes of stories by H P Lovecraft and Robert E Howard. On the lighter side, Matthew has lent his voice and writing talents to the Rifftrax website, masterminded by the makers of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Barbara Hambly has published more than 40 novels since publishing her first fantasy novel, The Time of  the Dark. Although she's written across many genres, her work displays a special fondness for both fantasy and historical mysteries. A Guest of Honor at the World Fantasy Convention 2008, Barbara's recent projects include Renfield: Slave of Dracula and the historical Patriot Hearts. Rick Kennett: A life-long resident of Melbourne, Australia, I work in the transport industry. My ghost stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies. I’m co-author with Chico Kidd of 472 Cheyne Walk: Carnacki, the Untold Stories (Ash Tree Press 2002). I include naval history and wandering cemeteries (necrotourism) as interests. Chico Kidd’s stories have been published in the UK, the US, Canada, Australia and Europe. Her first novel, The Printer’s Devil, came out in 1996. First hardback anthology: Summoning Knells(2000). Chico’s and Rick Kennett’s collection No 472 Cheyne Walk was published in 2002. Since 2000 she has been busy with the Da Silva sequence of novels and stories. The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 and Dark Terrors 6 featured three between them. Others have appeared in Supernatural Tales, Acquainted with the Night and elsewhere. Bob Madison is the editor of Dracula: The First Hundred Years, published in 1997, and the author of the kid-oriented American Horror Writers (2000).  He has also written for Wonder Magazine, Cult Movies and The Dinosaur Times.  He has appeared on WABC- TV's Good Morning America, WOR's Joey Reynolds Show and WABC's Morning News, among others, and DVD documentaries for the classic movie versions of Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein, Dracula and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. Kim Newman is a novelist, critic and broadcaster.  His fiction includes Anno Dracula, Life’s Lottery and The Man From the Diogenes Club.  His non-fiction includes Nightmare Movies, Horror: 100 Best Books and BFI Classics studies of Cat People and Doctor Who.  He is a contributing editor to Sight & Sound and Empire.  His website is at johnnyalucard.com. Martin Powell is the author of the Eisner nominated Sherlcok Holmes/Dracula adventure, Scarlet in Gaslight. Although he has returned to the character many other times, Powell considers Sherlock Holmes in the Lost World, contained in this volume, as his personal favorite among his own stories featuring the Great Detective. Chris Roberson’s novels include Here, There & Everywhere, The Voyage of Night Shining White, Paragaea: A Planetary Romance, X-Men: The Return, Set the Seas on Fire, The Dragon’s Nine Sons, Iron Jaw and Hummingbird, End of the Century, and Three Unbroken. Along with his business partner and spouse Allison Baker, he is the publisher of MonkeyBrain Books, an independent publishing house specializing in genre fiction and nonfiction genre studies. Visit him online at www.chrisroberson.net. Barbara Roden is one-half of the World Fantasy Award-winning Ash-Tree Press, and co-edits All Hallows, the journal of the Ghost Story Society. She is a longstanding member of the Bootmakers of Toronto, and in 2005 was investitured in the Baker Street Irregulars as "Beryl Stapleton". Christopher Sequeira has written papers for The Passengers Log – the journal of The Sydney Passengers - Sherlock Holmes Society of Australia.  He’s also worked on scripts for international comic-book publishers including DC Comics, Marvel Entertainment, and Moonstone Books and had horror and mystery stories appear in a range of publications.

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