THE ADVENTURE OF THE DEADLY DIMENSIONS: SHERLOCK HOLMES VS. CTHULHU #1

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Bizarre geometries lead members of a secluded cult to build strange constructs. When completed, these items enable other-worldly creatures to enter our dimension. A series of grisly murders rocks London. At each location, only a jumble of bones remains of the victim, along with a bizarre sphere of bone covered in strange symbols. The son of the latest victim seeks the help of Sherlock Holmes, who in turn recruits his former partner, Dr. John Watson.
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BOUCHERCON 2016!

Lee Child with Lois Gresh (and yes, I was so thrilled I almost fainted)

Michael Connelly with Harlan Coben

Breakfast at Jimmy J’s with the Sherlockians: Michael McKuras, Lois Gresh, Les Klinger, Gary Thaden, Bonnie MacBird, Andy Thaden, Michael Robertson, Dana Cameron, Laurie R. King, Julie McKuras

THE SHERLOCK PANEL. Moderator Les Klinger, left to right: Michael Robertson, Bonnie MacBird, Lois Gresh, Terence Faherty and Laura Caldwell

THE SHERLOCK PANEL. Top Row: Michael Robertson, TP Faherty, Les Klinger, Front Row Lois Gresh, Bonnie MacBird, Laura Caldwell

ROCCON 2016!

A huge THANK YOU to RocCon for kindly inviting me as Guest of Honor Author this year! Special thanks to everyone who attended my Sherlock Holmes presentation!

BIO:

LOIS H. GRESH is the New York Times Bestselling Author (6 times) and USA Today Bestselling Author (thrillers) of 30 books and more than 65 short stories. Look for SHERLOCK HOLMES VS. CTHULHU  #1: THE ADVENTURE OF THE DEADLY DIMENSIONS (Titan Books, April 2017), the first in a new trilogy of Sherlock Holmes thrillers from England’s premier publisher of all things Holmes, with Random House distribution in the USA. Lois’ books have been published in 22 languages. For five 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 eight times. She is a frequent Guest of Honor Author at large fan conventions and has appeared on television series such as The History Channel’s Ancient Aliens and Batman Tech.

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THE OTHER SIDE OF LOIS

For all the FUN DOPE about me, CLICK HERE!

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.

 

THANK YOU to Black Static magazine for the excellent review! To read the review, CLICK HERE.

“Gresh’s elegant and mellifluous prose, the imaginative power of her weird conceptions, and her skill in leading the reader step by step to a terrifying denouement make every one of her tales a well-crafted jewel of weird fiction.”
— S.T. Joshi
(CULT OF THE DEAD, Hippocampus Press, July 2015)
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INNSMOUTH NIGHTMARES – now available as a $5.49 e-book!

Three stories are in top BEST OF THE YEAR 2015 anthologies:

• –Steve Rasnic Tem’s excellent INNSMOUTH NIGHTMARES story, Beneath the Pilings, THE BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR 2015 (editor, Ellen Datlow)
• –John Shirley’s excellent INNSMOUTH NIGHTMARES story, Windows Underwater, THE YEAR’S BEST FANTASY & HORROR (editor, Paula Guran)
• –Tim Lebbon’s excellent INNSMOUTH NIGHTMARES story, Strange Currents, YEAR’S BEST WEIRD FICTION 2015 (editors, Michael Kelly & Simon Strantzas)

Six stories received Honorable Mentions in THE BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR 2015 (editor, Ellen Datlow)

INNSMOUTH NIGHTMARES (editor, Lois H. Gresh)
PS Publications, July 2015

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BOOKS

FICTION

Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu: The Adventure of the Deadly Dimensions (Titan Books, April 2017)
Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu: The Adventure of the Neural Psychoses (Titan Books, April 2018)
Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu: The Adventure of the Innsmouth Mutations (Titan Books, April 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

HIGHLIGHTS

• Writer Guest, Ancient Aliens, History Channel, airs often
• Writer Guest, Batman Tech, History Channel, airs often
• Writer Guest of Honor (GOH), Central PA ComicCon, 2017
• Roc-Con, Writer Guest of Honor, Sept 9-11, 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