For example, Watson’s first wife, Mary Morstan, was torn to pieces by a “hulking thing with webbed feet and membranous wings,” and the Baker Street Irregulars are a band of formerly cannibalistic snake men whom Holmes freed from being trapped underground. Watson has bowdlerized his friend’s actual investigations for publication to conceal that they involved encounters with demonic foes. Lovecraft’s supernatural cosmic horror onto Sherlock Holmes’s hyper-rational Victorian world. Tone problems mar Lovegrove’s sequel to 2016’s The Cthulhu Casebooks: Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows, an ambitious attempt to graft H.P.
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