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  As well as novels and short stories, he also has worked in the video games industry and consulted on the acclaimed Freeblade by Pixel Toys.

  Andrew Lane is the author of some thirty-three books ranging across fiction & non-fiction, adult & young adult, historical & contemporary and crime & science fiction. He has been occupied recently with a series of YA novels investigating Sherlock Holmes as a teenager and with building up enough Conan Doyle pastiches to eventually fill his own anthology.

  James Lovegrove was born on Christmas Eve 1965 and is the author of more than fifty books. His novels include The Hope, Days, Untied Kingdom, Provender Gleed, the New York Times bestselling Pantheon series – so far The Age Of Ra, The Age Of Zeus, The Age Of Odin, Age Of Aztec, Age Of Voodoo and Age Of Shiva, plus a collection of three novellas, Age Of Godpunk – and Redlaw and Redlaw: Red Eye, two novels about a policeman charged with protecting humans from vampires and vice versa. He has written three Sherlock Holmes novels, The Stuff Of Nightmares, Gods Of War and The Thinking Engine for Titan Books, and a Holmes/Cthulhu mashup trilogy; the first volume – Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows – is due out in November 2016. His latest series is the Dev Harmer Missions, an outer-space action-adventure series, beginning with World Of Fire and World Of Water.

  James has sold well over forty short stories, the majority of them gathered in two collections, Imagined Slights and Diversifications. He has written a four-volume fantasy saga for teenagers, The Clouded World (under the pseudonym Jay Amory), and has produced a dozen short books for readers with reading difficulties, including Wings, Kill Swap, Free Runner, Dead Brigade, and the 5 Lords Of Pain series.

  James has been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the British Fantasy Society Award and the Manchester Book Award. His short story “Carry The Moon In My Pocket” won the 2011 Seiun Award in Japan for Best Translated Short Story.

  James’s work has been translated into twelve languages. His journalism has appeared in periodicals as diverse as Literary Review, Interzone and BBC MindGames, and he is a regular reviewer of fiction for the Financial Times and contributes features and reviews about comic books to Comic Heroes magazine.

  He lives with his wife, two sons, cat and tiny dog in Eastbourne, a town famously genteel and favoured by the elderly, but in spite of that he isn’t planning to retire just yet.

  William Meikle is a Scottish writer, now living in Canada, with twenty novels published in the genre press and over 300 short story credits in thirteen countries. He has Sherlock Holmes’s collections and novellas available from Dark Regions Press, and a variety of his Sherlockian stories can be found in anthologies. He lives in Newfoundland with whales, bald eagles and icebergs for company. When he’s not writing he drinks beer, plays guitar and dreams of fortune and glory.

  Tim Pratt is the author of over twenty novels, most recently The Deep Woods and Heirs of Grace, and many short stories. His work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Year’s Best Fantasy, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, and other nice places. He’s a Hugo Award winner, and has been a finalist for World Fantasy, Sturgeon, Stoker, Mythopoeic, and Nebula Awards, among others. He lives in Berkeley CA and works as a senior editor at Locus, a trade magazine devoted to science fiction and fantasy publishing. He tweets a lot as @timpratt, and his website is www.timpratt.org. He publishes a new short story every month for his Patreon supporters at www.patreon.com/timpratt.

  Number one bestselling author Cavan Scott has written for such popular series as Doctor Who, Star Wars, Vikings, Highlander, Judge Dredd and Blake’s 7. His first Sherlock Holmes novel, The Patchwork Devil, was published by Titan Books in 2016.

  Jeffrey Thomas is an American author of horror and science fiction, the creator of the dark future setting Punktown. His novels include Deadstock and its follow-up Blue War, from Solaris Books, Letters From Hades, Monstrocity, Subject 11, Boneland, and A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Dealers. His short story collections include Punktown, Ghosts of Punktown, Thirteen Specimens, Nocturnal Emissions, Worship the Night, Unholy Dimensions, and (with W. H. Pugmire) Encounters With Enoch Coffin. His stories have been reprinted in The Year’s Best Horror Stories edited by Karl Edward Wagner, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror edited by Ellen Datlow, and Year’s Best Weird Fiction edited by Laird Barron. Thomas lives in Massachusetts.

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  A brand-new collection of Sherlock Holmes stories from a variety of exciting voices in modern horror and steampunk, edited by respected anthologist George Mann. Stories are told from the point of view of famous associates of the great detective, including Mrs Hudson, Sherlock Holmes, Toby the Dog, Inspector Gregson, and, of course, Professor Moriarty…

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  The spirit of Sherlock Holmes lives on in this collection of fourteen brand-new adventures. Marvel as the master of deduction aids a dying Sir Richard Francis Burton; matches wits with gentleman thief, A.J. Raffles; crosses paths with H.G. Wells in the most curious circumstances; unravels a macabre mystery on the Necropolis Express; unpicks a murder in a locked railway carriage; explains the origins of his famous Persian slipper and more!

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  Once again the spirit of Sherlock Holmes lives on. Wonder at how the world’s greatest consulting detective plays a deadly game with the Marvel of Montmartre; investigates a killing on the high seas; discovers Professor Moriarty’s secret papers; battles a mysterious entity on a Scottish mountain; travels to the Red Planet to solve an interplanetary murder; and solves one last case with Dr Watson Jr!

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  PHILIP PURSER-HALLARD • ANDREW LANE MARK A. LATHAM • NICK CAMPBELL JAMES GOSS WILLIAM • ROY GILL SCOTT HANDCOCK • GUY ADAMS LOU ANDERS • JUSTIN RICHARDS PHILIP MARSH • PATRICK MAYNARD & ALEXANDRA MARTUKOVICH

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  THE WILL OF THE DEAD

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  A rich elderly man has fallen to his death, and his will is nowhere to be found. A tragic accident or something more sinister?

  The dead man’s nephew comes to Baker Street to beg for Sherlock Holmes’s help. Without the will he fears he will be left penniless, the entire inheritance passing to his cousin. But just as Holmes and Watson start their investigation, a mysterious new claimant to the estate appears. Does this prove that the old man was murdered? Meanwhile Inspector Charles Bainbridge is trying to solve the case of the “iron men”, mechanical steam-powered giants carrying out daring jewellery robberies. But how do you stop a machine that feels no pain and needs no rest? He too may need to call on the expertise of Sherlock Holmes.

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  THE SPIRIT BOX

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  German zeppelins rain down death and destruction on London, and Dr Watson is grieving for his nephew, killed on the fields of France.

  A cryptic summons from Mycroft Holmes reunites Watson with his one-time companion, as Sherlock comes out of retirement, tasked with solving three unexplained deaths. A politician has drowned in the Thames after giving a pro-German speech; a soldier suggests surrender before feeding himself to a tiger; and a suffragette renounces women’s liberation and throws herself under a train. Are these ap
parent suicides something more sinister, something to do with the mysterious Spirit Box? Their investigation leads them to Ravensthorpe House, and the curious Seaton Underwood, a man whose spectrographs are said to capture men’s souls…

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