Want to read this along with me? This essay is part of His Last Bow, published in 1917. I used the epub version found on Feedbooks.com. We continue with the strange presentation of His Last Bow by going back to a story published three years previous to “The Red Circle,” and perhaps one of the [...]
For a while now this blog has been largely on auto-pilot, with only my Tour de Holmes posts offering any sort of steady churn of posts. A lot of it has been due to my change of position combined with heavy crunch on Vampire: The Masquerade – 20th Anniversary Edition. I’m going to try to [...]
Want to read this along with me? This essay is part of His Last Bow, published in 1917. I used the epub version found on Feedbooks.com. After “The Cardboard Box,” we jump eighteen years ahead to “The Red Circle.” Holmes starts right off by being insulting to a landlady, and goes on to mock the [...]
Want to read this along with me? This essay is part of His Last Bow, published in 1917. I used the epub version found on Feedbooks.com. “The Cardboard Box” is actually a good classic tale, if a bit darker than some others in the canon. Of course, part of the reason why it feels more [...]
Less than a year ago, I was telling the world about my new title, World of Darkness Developer. Since then, I’ve had another change in position, equally as positive. I’ve mentioned it in passing, but things are far enough along that I can talk about it in earnest. Back in April, I moved out of [...]
Want to read this along with me? This essay is part of His Last Bow, published in 1917. I used the epub version found on Feedbooks.com. “Wisteria Lodge” is an odd story in the canon. It honestly reads as if someone else besides Doyle wrote it, emulating some parts of Doyle’s style ham-fistedly while explicitly [...]
Want to read this along with me? This essay is part of The Valley of Fear, published in 1915. I used the epub version found on Feedbooks.com. As a personal note, with this book I did all my reading and initial note-taking on the iPad, which is positive – it made the process of writing [...]