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SHERLOCK HOLMES VS. CTHULHU: THE ADVENTURE OF THE INNSMOUTH MUTATIONS
THIRD BOOK in a new series of Sherlock Holmes thrillers!
All novels are available at Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble online and book stores, as well as other fine shops
Both Fitzgerald and Moriarty travel to Innsmouth, the stronghold of the cult of the Old Ones. Holmes and Watson follow them across the ocean and discover a structure designed to enable the Old Ones to flood into our world and unleash horrors that — unless stopped — will annihilate all of humanity. Yet when it is destroyed people continue to mutate and go mad. Cthulhu rises over Devil Reef, ready to unleash his minions. In an epic battle — logic vs. brawn — Holmes must defeat Cthulhu and permanently seal the deadly dimensions.
Praise for the Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu series
“If you like your detective stories with a dash of the occult, Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu: The Adventure of the Neural Psychoses is for you. Holmes vs. Cthulhu, what more could you want?”
– Horror Channel UK
“An excellent mash up of Doyle and Lovecraft that I can’t help but applaud. Gresh masters both [Holmes and Lovecraft] perfectly and exceedingly, I was completely blown away! The characters of Holmes and Watson were perfect renderings that even Doyle would approve of. The plot line was amazing, it wasn’t too OTT making it silly or ridiculous, it was just the right amount of terrifying meets bizarre and worked wonderfully. A trilogy that any fans of Sherlock, Lovecraft, SFF or historical fantasy would love.”
– Tygpress Book Reviews
“The author yet again nailed Holmes and Watson’s personalities… I cannot wait for the final book in this series.”
– Terror Tree UK
“Lois is leading the charge in revitalising a rich and interesting character with new challenges”
— Always Trust in Books
“A rollicking read for its enjoyable literary mash-up as well as its genuinely great rendering of both Holmes and Watson”
— STARBURST
“A wild, exciting and thoroughly satisfying collision of otherworldly horror an deductive reasoning.”
— Jonathan Maberry, New York Times Bestselling Author
“Held me spellbound…more!”
— Nancy Holder, New York Times Bestselling Author
“An irresistible eldritch mystery.”
— Christopher Golden, New York Times Bestselling Author
“Grand fun!”
— Leslie Klinger
“Engrossing.”
— Crime Fiction Lover
“Pure, good trippy fun.”
— Geek Dad
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SHERLOCK HOLMES VS. CTHULHU: THE ADVENTURE OF THE NEURAL PSYCHOSES
SECOND BOOK in a new series of Sherlock Holmes thrillers!
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Amelia Scarcliffe’s monstrous brood, harbingers of Cthulhu, will soon spawn. Her songs spell insanity, death…and illimitable wealth. And Moriarty will do anything to get his hands on gold, even if it means tearing down the walls between this world and a realm of horrors.
Meanwhile, after Sherlock Holmes’s last tangle with the Order of Dagon, horrifying monsters haunt the Thames, and madness stalks the streets of Whitechapel. Gang war between Moriarty’s thugs and the powerful cult can only bring more terror–unless Holmes and Dr. Watson can prevent it. But can they find the cause of the neural psychoses before Watson himself succumbs?
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SHERLOCK HOLMES VS. CTHULHU: THE ADVENTURE OF THE DEADLY DIMENSIONS
FIRST in a new series of Sherlock Holmes thrillers!
All novels are available at Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble online and book stores, as well as other fine shops
A series of grisly murders rocks London. At each location, only a jumble of bones remains, along with a bizarre bone sphere covered in arcane symbols. The son of the latest victim seeks the help of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, who discover a common thread that ties together the murders–and the persons responsible.
Bizarre geometries–based on ancient schematics–point to members of a secluded cult. These men and women build strange constructs that will enable other-worldly creatures to enter our dimension, seeking sustenance. As their power grows, even Moriarty fears that his empire is at risk—to the point that he seeks an unholy alliance with his eternal foe.
“THE ADVENTURE OF THE DEADLY DIMENSIONS is a wild, exciting and thoroughly satisfying collision of otherworldly horror and deductive reasoning. So much fun!”
–Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of V-WARS and PREDATOR ONE
“An irresistible eldritch mystery! Baker Street and the Great Old Ones are made for each other.”
–Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Snowblind and Aarat
“THE ADVENTURE OF THE DEADLY DIMENSIONS held me spellbound and kept me guessing…until 3 AM on a work day! The Great Detective has met his literary match, and ‘The Woman’ is author Lois H. Gresh. More!”
–Nancy Holder, New York Times bestselling author, the WICKED Saga
“The Great Detective confronts the Unnameable in Lois Gresh’s latest—grand fun!”
–Leslie Klinger, World Fantasy Award winning editor of The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes and The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft
“The name Lois H. Gresh is as much advertising as her work needs. However, it is my privilege to recommend her latest tour-de-force. Just how the literary establishment missed engineering a dream collaboration between H.P Lovecraft and Arthur Conan Doyle before now is a mystery; but if it was waiting for Lois H. Gresh to do the thing justice, this one is all the justification necessary.”
–Loren D. Estleman, Edgar Award-Winning author
“Lois H, Gresh blends Sherlock Holmes and and the eldritch flavors of H.P. Lovecraft together brilliantly. Victorian nightmares and a properly twisted mystery make THE ADVENTURE OF THE DEADLY DIMENSIONS a must read for fans of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary sleuth.”
–James A. Moore, author of Seven Forges and The Blasted Lands
“An unmissable collision of two of the finest Victorian treasures. No stranger to the Cthulhu mythos, Gresh’s Lovecraftian writings have appeared in many anthologies, so the subject matter is in safe hands, leaving the addition of Doyle’s master detective the icing on an already appetising cake.”
—This is Horror, http://www.thisishorror.co.uk
“Gresh is an excellent plotter as she weaves an engaging mystery that builds from typical Holmesian fare into pure Lovecraftian horror. Along the way, Gresh raids the toybox of both Doyle and Lovecraft and employs both of their tropes and commonly found story elements, so fans of both authors’ styles will find much to love about this novel. A rollicking read…genuinely great rendering of both Holmes and Watson, in particular the latter. The good news is that this is only the first of a planned trilogy, so we can look forward to even more ‘Cthulhu meets Conan Doyle’ goodness in future.”
—Christian Bone, Starburst, http://www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/book-reviews-latest-literary-releases/18643-book-review-sherlock-homes-vs-cthulhu
“You would think that no-one could recreate Holmes a century later than Conan Doyle did, but Gresh has managed to get both Holmes and his ‘assistant’ Watson pegged…In this well-written novel Gresh closely follows the Holmes conventions, whilst stepping outside of the day to day and entering the fringes of the supernatural… a fast moving and strange book.”
—Breakaway Reviewers
NEW Sherlock Holmes story – Available Now! (click here)
SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE ADVENTURE OF THE PIN-PRICKED CORPSE
HARDBOILED HORROR edited by Jonathan Maberry
Hardboiled Horror collects fifteen original tales of noir mystery shot through with elements of horror and the supernatural. Occult detectives, paranormal investigators, seedy P.I.s, amateur sleuths and ghost hunters tackle the cases no one else can handle.
The killer lineup includes Heather Graham, Kevin J. Anderson, Rachel Caine, Scott Sigler, Seanan McGuire Alethea Kontis, Jonathan Maberry, Chris Ryall, Dana Fredsti, Jim Beard, Jacopo della Quercia, John Gilstrap, Jon McGoran, Josh Malerman, Max Allan Collins & Matthew V. Collins, Lois H. Gresh and Nancy Holder.
Includes my new SHERLOCK HOLMES story:
SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE ADVENTURE OF THE PIN-PRICKED CORPSE
BIOGRAPHY
LOIS H. GRESH is the New York Times Bestselling Author (6 times) and USA Today Bestselling Author (thrillers) of 28 books and more than 65 short stories, as well as the editor of anthologies INNSMOUTH NIGHTMARES and DARK FUSIONS. Her work has been published in 22 languages. SHERLOCK HOLMES VS. CTHULHU: THE ADVENTURE OF THE INNSMOUTH MUTATIONS (Titan Books, 2019) is the third in her series of Sherlock Holmes thrillers from England’s premier publisher of all things Holmes, with Random House distribution in the USA. Also look for SHERLOCK HOLMES VS. CTHULHU: THE ADVENTURE OF THE NEURAL PSYCHOSES (Titan Books, 2018) and SHERLOCK HOLMES VS. CTHULHU: THE ADVENTURE OF THE DEADLY DIMENSIONS (Titan Books, 2017). For 5 years, Lois was a staff book reviewer at scifi.com (now SYFY.com, the Science Fiction Cable Channel), and her work has been on national/international award ballots 8 times. She is a frequent Guest of Honor Author at large genre conventions and has appeared on television series such as The History Channel’s Ancient Aliens and Batman Tech.
SAMPLE COVERS
THE OTHER SIDE OF LOIS
My life used to be straight out of Office Space, which is still one of my favorite films, right up there with Misery and Spinal Tap.
Technical Background:
LOIS H. GRESH served as Technical Communications Director for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics at the University of Rochester, where she created and programmed the original University Science Portal (then at www.science.rochester.edu), which was later transformed into the futurity.org site. She wrote close to 100 research stories, as well as a 100-page pop science book for the Laboratory for Laser Energetics and a 50-page Chemistry book. Earlier, as Creative-Technical Director for computer consultant companies, Lois managed internet-based marketing and training projects for Bausch & Lomb, Xerox, Kodak, RIT, the U.S. Government Small Business Administration, Time Warner, and others. Her work included shooting/editing 90 videos for Kodak, as well as training artists how to use special effects and touch-up software on films such as Men in Black 2 and Spider-Man. Earlier, she was Lead Systems Analyst for the internet training sites of Element K, Micron, Adobe, Gateway, and Macromedia. For two years in her teens, she wrote and programmed a computerized biweekly medical newsletter for the National Institute of Health Library. At nineteen, she became Manager of Publications, Training, and Systems Analysis for Bradford National Corporation for two years, then served for four years as Publications Manager at Computer Consoles. Lois won a Best of the Web OmniVision Award from Omni Magazine in 1996 for her work in internet-based virtual reality. 
BOOKS
FICTION
Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu: The Adventure of the Deadly Dimensions (Titan Books, 2017)
Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu: The Adventure of the Neural Psychoses (Titan Books, 2018)
Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu: The Adventure of the Innsmouth Mutations (Titan Books, 2019)
Cult of the Dead and Other Weird and Lovecraftian Tales (Hippocampus, 2015)
Innsmouth Nightmares (ed., PS Publishing, 2015)
Dark Fusions (ed., PS Publishing, 2013)
Eldritch Evolutions (Chaosium 2011 & BookViewCafe)
Blood and Ice (Elder Signs, 2011)
TechnoLife 2020 (ECW, 2001)
Chuck Farris and the Cosmic Storm (ECW, 2002)
Chuck Farris and the Labyrinth of Doom (ECW, 2001)
Chuck Farris and the Tower of Darkness (ECW, 2001)
The Termination Node (Random House/Del Rey, 1999)
SPECULATIVE SCIENCE
The Many Mysteries of Indiana Jones (John Wiley & Sons, 2008)
The Science of Stephen King (John Wiley & Sons, 2007)
The Unauthorized Guide to His Dark Materials (St. Martin’s Press, 2007)
The Science of James Bond (John Wiley & Sons, 2006)
The Science of Anime (Running Press, 2005)
The Science of Supervillains (John Wiley & Sons, 2004)
The Science of Superheroes (John Wiley & Sons, 2002)
The Computers of Star Trek (Harper/Basic Books, 2000)
COMPANION GUIDES
The Divergent Companion (St. Martin’s Press, 2014)
The Mortal Instruments Companion (St. Martin’s Press, 2013)
The Hunger Games Companion (St. Martin’s Press, 2011)
The Twilight Companion (St. Martin’s Press, 2008)
The Unauthorized Guide to Artemis Fowl (St. Martin’s Press, 2008)
The Fan’s Guide to the Spiderwick Chronicles (St. Martin’s press, 2007)
The Unauthorized Eragon Guide (St. Martin’s Press, 2006)
Exploring Lemony Snicket (St. Martin’s Press, 2004)
Dragonball Z (St. Martin’s Press, 2000)
SHORT STORIES – Partial List
• Cafebabe, Infinite Loop SF Anthology, Miller Freeman hardcover, 1993
• Watch Me If You Can, Infinite Loop SF Anthology, Miller Freeman hardcover, 1993
• Digital Pistil, Tales of the Unanticipated, November 1994
• Digital Pistil (reprint), The Cyborg Handbook, Routledge Press, 1995 (story was sole winner of national contest and represents future of cyborg SF)
• Digital Pistil (reprint), 1994 Year’s Best Fantastic Fiction
• AnOde to Thee: or Surfing those Tubular Waves, Mindsparks SF, 1994
• Mandelbrot Moldrot, Miskatonic University, DAW Books, November 1996
• Let Me Make You Suffer, Interzone, Spring 1995
• Algorithms & Nasal Structures, Aboriginal SF, Summer 1998
• Sole Man, Hot Blood: Fear the Fever, Pocket Books, July 1996 (story was on the prelim 1996 HWA Stoker Award Ballot; story received Honorable Mention in 1996 Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror, St. Martin’s Press)
• Snip My Suckers, 100 Vicious Little Vampires, Barnes and Noble, 1995 (story was on the prelim 1995 HWA Stoker Award Ballot; story received Honorable Mention in 1995 Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror, St. Martin’s Press)
• Psychomildew Love, 100 Wicked Little Witches, Barnes and Noble, 1995 (story was on the prelim 1995 HWA Stoker Award Ballot)
• Cocci’s Blood-Fueled Feud, 100 Vicious Little Vampires, Barnes and Noble, 1995
• Fish Witch, 100 Wicked Little Witches, Barnes and Noble, 1995
• Birches & Murk, Horror a Day, Barnes and Noble, August/September 1998
• Engorged Pereute, Horror a Day, Barnes and Noble, August/September 1998
• Little Whorehouse of Horrors, Dark Regions Virtual Reality, 1998
• Instant Gratification, Manifest Destiny, Winter 1994
• The Last Real Rat, The Urbanite, 1997
• Lucky Albumin, The Urbanite, 1997
• Where I Go, Mi-Go, Singers of Strange Songs, Chaosium Press, 1997
• Memories of Home, Terminal Fright, 1993
• The Adventure of the Parisian Gentleman, New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, Robinson Publishing (London) and Carroll and Graf, Mike Ashley, ed., 1997
• Julius Caesar: Three Meetings and a Funeral, Shakespearean Detectives (also: More Shakespearean Whodunnits), Robinson Publishing (London) and Carroll and Graf, Mike Ashley, ed., 1998
• Death Rides the Elevator, Locked Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes, Robinson Publishing (London) and Carroll and Graf, Mike Ashley, ed., 2000
• Nada Nother Nite, Inhuman Magazine, AllenK, ed., October 2009
• Murder in Monkeyland, Locked Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes — Volume 2, Robinson Publishing (London) and Carroll and Graf, Mike Ashley, ed., 2006
• There’s No Place Like Void, Tales Out of Miskatonic, Mythos Books, 2011
• The Lagoon of Insane Plants, Ancient Shadows, Elder Signs Press, 2011
• Julia Brainchild, Hungry for Your Love: Zombie Romance, e-format from Ravenous Romance, Oct 2009; print edition from St. Martin’s Press, Oct 2010
• Cuspid Cupid: What’s the Difference?, Fang Bangers, e-format from Ravenous Romance, August 2010
• The Scourge of the Sea, High Seas Cthulhu 2, Elder Signs Press, 2011
• Debutante Ball, Eldritch Evolutions, Chaosium, 2011
• Smokestack Snout Neurology, Eldritch Evolutions, Chaosium, 2011
• The Battle of Batbrew Bulge, Eldritch Evolutions, Chaosium, 2011
• Underground Pipeline, Eldritch Evolutions, Chaosium, 2011
• Lust of the Giant Sloth, Eldritch Evolutions, Chaosium, 2011
• Geisha Black, Eldritch Evolutions, Chaosium, 2011
• Skinhead Bonehead, Eldritch Evolutions, Chaosium, 2011
• Wee Sweet Girlies, Eldritch Evolutions, Chaosium, 2011 (story was short-listed and received Honorable Mention in 2011 Year’s Best Horror, ed. Ellen Datlow)
• Showdown at Red Hook, Eldritch Evolutions, Chaosium, 2011
• Mhy’Os Mythos, Holiday Cthulhu, Miskatonic River Press, 2012
• Dreams of Death, Eldritch Chrome, Chaosium, 2014
• Werewolf Root Canal, Mark of the Beast, Chaosium, 2014
• Mandelbrot Moldrot (reprint), Mountain Walked, Centipede Press, 2014
• Mandelbrot Moldrot (reprint), Mad Science Cafe, BookViewCafe, 2013
• Necrotic Cove, Black Wings III, PS Publishing, 2014
• Devil’s Bathtub, Madness of Cthulhu, Titan Books, 2014
• Willie the Protector, Searchers After Horror, Fedogan & Bremer 2014
• Of Queens and Pawns, That is not Dead, PS Publishing, 2014
• Death Doll, Expiration Date, Edge SFF Publishing, 2014
• Old Enough to Drink, Dark Fantastique, Cycatrix Press, 2014
• Nameless and Shameless, Jews vs. Aliens, Jurassic London, 2014
• Night Trippers, Summer of Lovecraft, Chaosium, 2016
• Square of the Inquisition, Gothic Lovecraft, Cycatrix Press, 2015
• Necrotic Cove (reprint), New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird, Prime Publishing, 2015
• Dearest Daddy, Dreams from the Witch House, Dark Regions, 2015
• Cult of the Dead, Black Wings IV, PS Publishing, 2015
• In the Sacred Cave, The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu: New Lovecraftian Fiction, Constable-Robinson, 2015
• All Choked Up, The X-Files: Secret Agendas, IDW Publishing, 2016
• Bloodline, V-Wars: Shockwaves, IDW Publishing, 2016
• The Adventure of the Pin-Pricked Corpse (Sherlock Holmes), Hardboiled Horror, JournalStone Publishing, 2017
HIGHLIGHTS
• Writer Guest, Ancient Aliens, History Channel, airs often
• Writer Guest, Batman Tech, History Channel, airs often
• Writer Guest of Honor (GOH), Roc-Con 2018
• Writer Guest of Honor (GOH), Roc-Con 2017
• Writer Guest of Honor (GOH), Roc-Con 2016
• Special Guest of Honor (GOH), NecronomiCon 2015, Providence, RI
• Writer Guest of Honor (GOH), Roc-Con 2015
• Writer Guest of Honor (GOH), Roc-Con 2014
• Writer Guest of Honor (GOH), Roc-Con 2012
• Writer Guest of Honor (GOH), Eeriecon 2011
• Writer Guest of Honor (GOH), Roc-Con 2011
• Writer Guest of Honor (GOH) Speaker, Hofstra University Conference, November 2007
• Writer Guest of Honor (GOH) Speaker, New York Academy of Sciences, NYC, November 2007
• Writer Guest of Honor (GOH) Speaker, The Century Club, Rochester, NY, September 2007
• Writer Guest of Honor (GOH) Speaker, University Librarian Conference, Colorado, June 2007
• After Dinner Speaker, Ninth Rochester International Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics, June 2007
• Writer Guest of Honor (GOH) and Speaker, Perugia Science Festival, Italy, 2006
• Featured by Scientific American Book Club, Science Fiction Book Club, and Library of Science Book Club
• Featured in New York Times Book Review, USA Today, Science News, Publisher’s Weekly, National Geographic, Physics Today, New Scientist, U.S. News and World Report, Entertainment Weekly, many others
• On Nebula preliminary ballot for Best Novel of 1999, Science Fiction Writers of America, Inc.
• On national fiction ballots six times for Best Story of the Year
• Won national award for best modern cyborg science fiction; story published in international graduate-level cyborg Handbook/Routledge Press
• Television: Interviewed on national Fox News television, BBC World Science News, live news programs & talk shows in NYC, Connecticut, Virginia, Rochester, Canada; featured in Batman Tech & Ancient Aliens, History Channel; interviewed by television producers from Discovery Channel, ABC News
• Radio: Interviewed by hundreds of radio stations, including National Public Radio, the BBC, 5 cable networks in Canada
• Best of Show Award (top award given), Rochester Society for Technical Communications, 2003, for The Science of Superheroes; entry went to the International Competition
• Teen science books and novels endorsed by the American Library Association, Voice of Youth Advocates, School Library Journal, Today’s Librarian
• Books published in 22 languages & available worldwide: Italy, Japan, Spain, Russia, Germany, Portugal, France, Brazil, Thailand, Korea, China, Estonia, England, Canada/French, Finland, Poland, Czech, etc.
• Staff novel reviewer – Science Fiction Cable Channel, Nov 2004-Dec 2009, RIP