Risultati per "Sherlock Holmes" in Storico

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.

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.

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.

Based on some of literature’s horror and science fiction classics, this “tour de force of reclaiming the narrative, executed with impressive wit and insight” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) debut is the story of a remarkable group of women who come together to solve the mystery of a...