BOOK TRAILER: GASLIGHT ARCANUM - UNCANNY TALES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

CALGARY BOOK SIGNING - GASLIGHT ARCANUM: UNCANNY TALES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES - October 15, 2011

Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock HolmesCalgary Signing
October 15, 2011- Chapters - Spectrum (Sunridge)


On Saturday, October 15, 2011 from 12 - 3 PM co-editors Jeff Campbell and Charles Prepolec will be at Chapters - Spectrum signing copies of our new book GASLIGHT ARCANUM: UNCANNY TALES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. Contributor Kevin Cockle may also be in attendance. If you're in Calgary and need a copy, or just want to say hello, come on by the store.

*Be one of the first 5 people to purchase a copy of GASLIGHT ARCANUM at the signing and receive a free limited print of our stunning frontispiece art signed by artist Mike Mignola (Hellboy). Free bookmark with every purchase.

What: Gaslight Arcanum signing with editors Jeff R. Campbell and Charles Prepolec

When: Saturday, October 15, 2011 from Noon - 3PM

Where: Chapters - Spectrum (Sunridge)
Spectrum Shopping Centre, #500 - 2555 32nd St NE
Calgary, Alberta
T1Y 7J6
Canada
(403) 250-9171



GASLIGHT ARCANUM: UNCANNY TALES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
Edited by J.R. Campbell and Charles Prepolec
EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy - October 2011
ISBN-10: 1894063600
ISBN-13: 978-1894063609

Cover art by Dave Elsey
Frontispiece by Mike Mignola
Additional interior illustrations by Luke Eidenschink

Contents:

Introduction by Charles Prepolec

The Comfort of the Seine by Stephen Volk
The Adventure of Lucifer’s Footprints by Christopher Fowler 
The Deadly Sin of Sherlock Holmes by Tom English
The Colour that Came to Chiswick by William Meikle
A Country Death by Simon K. Unsworth
From the Tree of Time by Fred Saberhagen
Sherlock Holmes and the Diving Bell by Simon Clark
The Executioner by Lawrence C. Connolly
Sherlock Holmes and the Great Game by Kevin Cockle
The Greatest Mystery by Paul Kane
The House of Blood by Tony Richards
The Adventure of the Six Maledictions by Kim Newman

FICTION: LOVECRAFT EZINE FEATURES TWO SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES

The Lovecraft eZine is a free online magazine (eZine) that regularly features fiction and other materials of interest to fans of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft. The June issue (#5) of The Lovecraft eZine will be of interest to Sherlockians as it contains two new short stories plunging Sherlock Holmes into the Lovecraft's dark world. "The Case of the Galloway Eidolon by Bruce Durham and "The Call of the Dance" by GASLIGHT GROTESQUE: NIGHTMARE TALES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES and GASLIGHT ARCANUM: UNCANNY TALES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES contributor William Meikle.  Click here to read the June issue of  The Lovecraft eZine now.

GASLIGHT ARCANUM: UNCANNY TALES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES SEPTEMBER 2011

GASLIGHT ARCANUM: UNCANNY TALES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES 




Edited by J.R. Campbell and Charles Prepolec
Published by EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy
Publication date: Fall 2011

Cover art by Dave Elsey 
Frontispiece by Mike Mignola

Contents:

Introduction by Charles Prepolec

The Comfort of the Seine by Stephen Volk
The Adventure of Lucifer’s Footprints by Christopher Fowler 
The Deadly Sin of Sherlock Holmes by Tom English
The Colour that Came to Chiswick by William Meikle
A Country Death by Simon K. Unsworth
From the Tree of Time by Fred Saberhagen
Sherlock Holmes and the Diving Bell by Simon Clark
The Executioner by Lawrence C. Connolly
Sherlock Holmes and the Great Game by Kevin Cockle
The Greatest Mystery by Paul Kane
The House of Blood by Tony Richards
The Adventure of the Six Maledictions by Kim Newman

Publication details will be available from our publisher EDGE SF&F at their website http://www.edgewebsite.com/ in due course.

This is the third book in the series, following on from GASLIGHT GRIMOIRE: FANTASTIC TALES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (2008) and GASLIGHT GROTESQUE: NIGHTMARE TALES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (2009). For info on the previous volumes please visit the EDGE SF&F website at http://www.edgewebsite.com/ or your favorite retail or online bookseller.

To order a copy of GASLIGHT GRIMOIRE: FANTASTIC TALES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES - http://astore.amazon.com/bakerstreetdo-20/detail/1894063171

To order a copy of GASLIGHT GROTESQUE: NIGHTMARE TALES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES - http://astore.amazon.com/bakerstreetdo-20/detail/1894063317

LIVE GASLIGHT GROTESQUE AUTHOR CHAT AT BITTEN BY BOOKS APRIL 21, 2010

A live real-time online chat with various contributors to GASLIGHT GROTESQUE: NIGHTMARE TALES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES will take place on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at the Bitten By Books site. Simply sign-in, post a question and whichever author or editor is close to hand will answer it. To RSVP please click here.

PRESS: FORGET THE PURISTS, CALGARY PUBLISHER KEEPS HOLMES EVOLVING

Back to Baker Street

Forget the purists, Calgary publisher keeps Sherlock Holmes evolving

 

December 21, 2009 

By Eric Volmers, Calgary Herald 

Photograph by: Christina Ryan, Calgary Herald

 

Charles Prepolec did not want to add to the perception that Sherlock Holmes fans, or Sherlockians as they call themselves, are rigid and overly protective of their territory when it comes to interpretations of the famous detective.

But the Calgarian admits he has found it necessary to enforce at least one rule when gathering short stories for collections that mix Arthur Conan Doyle's famous Baker Street investigator with horror scenarios: Do not bring a certain serial killer into the mix.

"No Jack the Ripper stories," says Prepolec, one of the editors of Gaslight Grotesque: Nightmare Tales of Sherlock Holmes (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 336 pages,$16.95) "We see him in short stories so often, and novels. No Ripper stories."

After all, having Holmes face the historical slasher isn't exactly a new idea. With an encyclopedic knowledge of all-things Sherlockian, Prepolec and co-editor J.R. Campbell can rhyme off the more notable attempts to bring the two Victorian icons together. The 1979 film, Murder by Decree with Christopher Plummer and 1965's A Study in Terror with John Neville were among the high-profile trips to that particular well.

So if you want to get your story into one of the collections, you will need to find Mr. Holmes a more original opponent.

"There are some things you have to avoid," says Campbell, who also contributed two stories to the book. "Your stories still have to be exciting. There's a lot of pastiche that tends to be more style over storytelling. You have to avoid that. There's a lot of stories that bring in a historical person. Which is fine . . . if they have a place."

With the Christmas Day release of Sherlock Holmes, a high-octane blockbuster featuring smirking Yank Robert Downey Jr. in the lead role, it could be argued that this latest release of short stories is perfectly timed to cash in on what could be a full-blown resurgence.

But Prepolec and Campbell are hardly bandwagon jumpers. Gaslight Grotesque is the fourth book that has been put together featuring creepy Holmes tales and the second to be published by Calgary-based genre kings Edge Publishing. They are working on a fifth. Both are members of Calgary's Singular Society of the Baker Street Dozen, a group that has been getting together in one form or another since 1987 to discuss the constant evolution of Doyle's character in the pop-culture consciousness.

And both have fairly high standards when it comes to what they'll accept as additions to the Holmes legend. The 13 tales come from a wide variety of authors who hail from Canada, the U.K., the U.S. and Australia. The book has gotten some high-profile shout-outs from Canuck sci-fi king Robert J. Sawyer and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola.... (click to read the full article at the Calgary Herald)