Shout-out to Arbie and Moonlight, who mentioned this elsewhere, with Moonlight sharing the link to the free copy available on Neil Gaiman's website. Thank you both! Also a huge shout-out to the story's illustrator, Jouni Koponen, who created a Victorian newspaper / tabloid / penny dreadful look, ...
An alternate universe of Sherlock Holmes canon. I have read it before but I saw the audio version on Audible and decided, eh, why not? This particular version was narrated by Neil Gaiman (I thought it was Gy-man, not Gae-men? Huh, go figure.) and he has a lovely voice, but it irritated me profound...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBJVGwmswZI
I was straightening up my bookshelf earlier today, and stumbled across this chapbook, stuffed into a corner out of the light. I remember having bought it several years ago, along with another Gaiman novelty, but for some reason I didn't read it before stuffing it into said corner. This wasn't very...
***This review is of the audiobook edition of "Shoggoth's Old Peculiar".*** Typical, well-written Neil Gaiman. Entertaining enough to keep your attention, but nothing to write home about. More of a homage to H.P. Lovecraft than an actual story. Gaiman did a good job of narrating, but his British a...
***This review is of the audiobook edition of "Shoggoth's Old Peculiar".***Typical, well-written Neil Gaiman. Entertaining enough to keep your attention, but nothing to write home about. More of a homage to H.P. Lovecraft than an actual story. Gaiman did a good job of narrating, but his British acce...
So Peculiar It Went Over My Head Review 2.5 - 3 starsNarrated by Neil GaimanFree short story from Audible, previous published in a collection of short stories by the author in Smoke and Mirrors, and read by the author."Shoggoth's Old Peculiar" - It was an odd short story, as I find all of this aut...
A Victorian horror starring Sherlock Holmes in a Lovecraft-ian setting with a brutal twist of an ending written by Neil Gaiman. What more can you say?5 STARS
A Victorian horror starring Sherlock Holmes in a Lovecraft-ian setting with a brutal twist of an ending written by Neil Gaiman. What more can you say?5 STARS
This short story can be read here in a rather unique and interesting 'periodical' form. What is A Study in Emerald? It is a mixture of two different worlds that of Sherlock Holmes and that of Lovecraft's Old Ones. Clearly from the title one can see that it is a reference to the notable classic A Stu...
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