Tom Pomplun, the editor and Renaissance man behind the excellent Graphic Classics series, sent us word of the latest volume – Gothic Classics. This is the 14th volume in this wonderful, utterly collectible series.
“GOTHIC CLASSICS is the third multi-author anthology in the GRAPHIC CLASSICS series of adaptations of great literature. The book presents Ann Radcliffe’s [...]
Filed under: Odds and ends on May 30th, 2007 | No Comments »
Been away for a few weeks, nursing a pretty bad sports-related injury. Returned to the desk today and found this item, not necessarily new to Holmes fans but well-written nonetheless – an overview of how the TV show “House” draws inspiration from the Great Detective.
House’s relationship to Wilson is Holmesian by design: House’s creator, London, [...]
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A dark cloud had loomed over the memory of Sir A.C. Doyle in the form of a notion that he had his father committed to an asylum out of convenience. Charles Altamont Doyle did indeed spend his last years in a number of Scottish asylums, but new research reveals that his son was not to [...]
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The publication of a new mystery featuring Oscar Wilde gives its author the chance to wax poetic on the relationship between Wilde and Sir Doyle – and the possibility that a little bit of Wilde made its way into the Holmes canon.
Amazingly, Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle were friends. They met in 1889, at the [...]
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