Gaslight Arcanum

In the dark lurk horrible secrets. Long buried and hidden from prying eyes are the twilight tales of the living and the dead - and those that are neither. The stink of a Paris morgue, the curve of a devil's footprint, forbidden pages torn from an infernal tome, madness in a dead woman's stare, a lost voice from beneath the waves, and the cold indifference of an insect's feeding all hold cryptic clues. From the comfort of the Seine to the chill blast of arctic winds, from candlelit monasteries to the callous and uncaring streets of Las Vegas are found arcane stories of men, monsters, and their evil...

Contents

Introduction: I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere by Charles Prepolec
1. The Comfort of the Seine by Stephen Volk
2. The Adventure of Lucifer's Footprints by Christopher Fowler
3. The Deadly Sin of Sherlock Holmes by Tom English
4. The Color That Came to Chiswick by William Meikle
5. From the Tree of Time by Fred Saberhagen
6. The Executioner by Lawrence C. Connolly
7. A Country Death by Simon Kurt Unsworth
8. Sherlock Holmes and the Great Game by Kevin Cockle
9. Sherlock Holmes and the Diving Bell by Simon Clark
10. The Greatest Mystery by Paul Kane
11. The House of Blood by Tony Richards
12. The Adventure of the Six Maledictions by Kim Newman