Resultados para "Sherlock Holmes" en Fantasía

It is 1890, and in the days before Christmas, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson are visited at Baker Street by a new client. Eve Allerthorpe, eldest daughter of a grand but somewhat eccentric Yorkshire-based dynasty, is greatly distressed, as she believes she is being haunted by a demonic Christmas spirit. Her late mother told her terrifying tales of the sinister Black Thurrick, and Eve is sure that she has seen the creature from her bedroom window. What is more, she has begun to receive mysterious parcels of birch twigs, the Black Thurrick’s calling card.

The iconic duo find themselves swiftly drawn into a series of puzzling and sinister events: an otherworldly stone whose touch inflicts fatal bleeding; a hellish potion to unlock a person’s devilish psyche; a fiendishly clever, almost undetectable method of revenge and many more—including a brand-new Cthulhu Casebooks story.

La mostruosa nidiata di Amelia Scarcliffe, messaggera di Cthulhu, presto deporrà le uova. Le sue litanie incantano e portano alla follia, alla morte ma anche a una ricchezza illimitata. E Moriarty farà di tutto per mettere le mani su quell'oro, anche a costo di abbattere i muri tra questo mondo e il regno degli orrori. Nel frattempo, dopo l'ultimo scontro di Sherlock Holmes con l'Ordine di Dagon, mostri orribili infestano il Tamigi e la follia si aggira per le strade di Whitechapel.

A series of grisly murders rocks London. At each location, only a jumble of bones remains of the deceased, along with a bizarre sphere covered in strange symbols. The son of the latest victim seeks the help of Sherlock Holmes and his former partner, Dr. John Watson. They discover the common thread tying together the murders. Bizarre geometries, based on ancient schematics, enable otherworldly creatures to enter our dimension, seeking to wreak havoc and destruction.

The deadly dimensions over London have been sealed, and the monsters have departed. But word has come to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson of a more terrifying creature still - the great Cthulhu has been sighted off the waters of Innsmouth, Massachusetts. Only Holmes can defeat him. And in the muddy village of Innsmouth, surrounded by villagers who are more sea-monster than human, Holmes meets again his nemesis, Moriarty, and yet greater foes: Amelia Scarcliffe and Maria Fitzgerald, harbingers of Dagon, who have called forth Cthulhu.

Die übernatürlichen Fälle des Sherlock Holmes (Band 1) : Während die meisten Abenteuer von Sherlock Holmes durch die Notizen und Publikationen von Dr. John Watson hinlänglich belegt und bekannt sind, gibt es auch eine gewisse Anzahl an Fällen, die der Öffentlichkeit damals geradezu zwingend vorenthalten werden mussten: Insbesondere im beginnenden 20. Jahrhundert hatte Holmes mit einigen höchst ungewöhnlichen Rätseln zu tun, deren Aufklärung gängige wissenschaftliche Anschauungen und normale irdische Zusammenhänge mitunter sprengten.

Während die meisten Abenteuer von Sherlock Holmes durch die Notizen und Publikationen von Dr. John Watson hinlänglich belegt und bekannt sind, gibt es auch eine gewisse Anzahl an Fällen, die der Öffentlichkeit damals geradezu zwingend vorenthalten werden mussten: Insbesondere im beginnenden 20. Jahrhundert hatte Holmes mit einigen höchst ungewöhnlichen Rätseln zu tun, deren Aufklärung gängige wissenschaftliche Anschauungen und normale rdische Zusammenhänge mitunter sprengten.

1890. Peu avant Noël, Sherlock Holmes et John Watson reçoivent à Baker Street la visite d'une nouvelle cliente. Eve Allerthorpe, fille aînée d'une dynastie prestigieuse mais quelque peu excentrique du Yorkshire, se trouve dans une profonde détresse : elle se croit possédée par un démoniaque esprit de Noël. Eve doit hériter d'une fortune à condition d'être saine d'esprit, mais il semble que quelque chose - ou quelqu'un - menace son équilibre mental.

Après quelques années où tout le monde le croyait mort, Sherlock Holmes, le brillant détective, revient à Londres. Son frère Mycroft le mandate aussitôt pour une affaire plus qu'étrange : toute la population d'un village nommé Keelodge, a été transformée en zombies ! Les habitants y sont confinés et personne ne peut en sortir. Les gens semblent être devenus fous, sanguinaires et cannibales. Jusqu'où la raison peut-elle expliquer le surnaturel ?

Ein geöffnetes Grab in Lamberley, einem kleinen Dorf in Sussex … und eine geistesgestörte Mutter, die ihrem neugeborenen Kind Blut aussaugt! Sherlock Holmes mag nicht an Vampire glauben, aber die grauenerregenden Tatsachen sprechen für sich. Gemeinsam mit John H.

A modern short story collection featuring the great detective.

"Das getupfte Band" (Original: "The Adventure of the Speckled Band") ist eine Sherlock-Holmes-Kurzgeschichte von Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, die erstmals im Februar 1892 im Strand Magazine erschien und von Sidney Paget illustriert wurde. Die Geschichte wurde im Oktober 1892 mit elf anderen Geschichten in den Sammelband The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (dt. Die Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes) aufgenommen und im August 1905 erneut unter dem Titel The Spotted Band in der New York World veröffentlicht.

Time is running out! When the Cheshire Cat, the White Rabbit, and The Mad Hatter turn up at 221-B Baker Street to enlist the help of Sherlock Holmes in locating Alice, who is missing from Wonderland, and Lewis Carroll himself, who is also nowhere to be found, there begins an adventure more stranger and curious than anything Sherlock has ever encountered.

A seemingly innocent concern from Lestrade about his cousin leads Holmes back into a world left behind after the affair of The Five Orange Pips. Investigating the appearance of a body at the base of Tower Bridge unveils a hidden cult of Satanists performing ritual sacrifices, until Holmes and the British Secret Service intervenes. Called to Scotland Yard, Holmes is reunited with an old acquaintance and dragged into a plot to undermine the government and give its secrets to Russian spies.

It is the autumn of 1910, and for 15 long years, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson have battled R’lluhloig, the Hidden Mind that was once Professor James Moriarty. Europe is creeping inexorably towards war, and a more cosmic conflict is nearing its zenith, as in a single night all the most eminent members of the Diogenes Club die horribly, seemingly by their own hands. Holmes suspects it is the handiwork of a German spy working for R’lluhloig, but his search for vengeance costs an old friend his life.

It is the autumn of 1880, and Dr. John Watson has just returned from Afghanistan. Badly injured and desperate to forget a nightmarish expedition that left him doubting his sanity, Watson is close to destitution when he meets the extraordinary Sherlock Holmes, who is investigating a series of deaths in the Shadwell district of London. Several bodies have been found, the victims appearing to have starved to death over the course of several weeks, and yet they were reported alive and well mere days before.