Journey Planet 11 H.A. Pearlman Journey Planet - Issue 11 - December 2011 James Bacon - Editors - Chris Garcia Table of Contents Page 58 - Other Houses, Other Holmes... by CHristopher J Garcia Cover by Hilary Pearlman Page 61 - The Game is Afoot. James and Page 1 - Table of Contents the Case of the Science Fictional Sher- lock Holmes by James Bacon Page 2 - Editorial by James Bacon, Con- sulting Detective Page 63 - 221b Baker Street; Fictional Flat a Monument to The Great Sleuth by Page 5 - JP Readers Write Again - Let- Anne [and Brian] Gray ters, edited lightly, by Claire Brialey Page 66 - The 221B Baker Street Illus- Page 11 - Sherlock Holmes in the Sci- tration by Russell Stutler ence Fiction Encyclopedia by Dave Lang- ford, Brian Stableford and Jonathan Page 71 - You Can Go Holmes Again by Clements Christopher J Garcia Page 13 - Geenre writers on their jour- Page 74 - Genre Writers on their Jour- ney into the Apocrypha, compiled by ney into the Apocrypha Part Deux - In James Bacon The Gaslight, Compiled by James Bacon Page 19 - The Location of 221b Baker Street by Peter Lidell Page 23 - Rural to Railway, The Devel- opment of Baker Street by Catherine Cooke Page 33 - Holmes, Cabs and Tubes by James Bacon Art Credits Page 37 - The Women of Sherlock Hol- mes by ALissa McKersie James Bacon - 26, 29, 32 Page 40 - An Actor’s Lessons by Elaine Sebastien Dunon (http://dunon.blogspot. Stiles com/) - 2 Page 43 - Holmes and Watson - It’ll Last Anne & Brian Gray - 4, 12, 42, 51, 63-65 by Tony Keen iPoppet (http://magiquebox.blogspot. Page 44 - Inner or Outer Rail by Nor- com/) - 39 man Crump James Shields - 10 Page 49 - Reviewed: The Trial of Sher- lock Holmes by Brian Gray Mo Starkey (After Paget) - BACover Page 52 - Adaptations of SHerlock Hol- Steve Stiles - 56 mes Novels and Stories by Tom Feller Russell Stutler - 67, 69, 70 Page 56 - Appreciation of Hammer’s tom whalen/strongstuff - www.strong- Hound of the Baskervilles by Lynda E. stuff.net - 43 Rucker. Contact us at [email protected] 1 Editorial by James Note to Sherlockians and Holmesists etc’s although I realise that we may be near We are not canonistas or pastiche- the crest of the wave, just now. eraros but jouneyists enjoying the spirit of (http://www.michael-procter.com/holm- the game. es/_index.html) We enjoy writing and talking and dis- Since we started work on this zine Fire covering, and this has been a journey of dis- Storm by Andrew Lane a Young Sherlock covery, and fun. Holmes story has come out, I have found Now, you may find errors, things you more and more Holmsian avenues of inter- disagree with, you may have an opinion that est and and I found the concept work for a is differing, and we welcome these, you can quite unusual comic. send us a Letter of Comment, and we will While at Thought Bubble in Leeds I publish it. saw a poster for Gav Heryng‘s ‘No Shit Sher- I love how players of the game, have lock’ with a Black handlebar-moustachioed a sense of humour and understand that it’s Sherlock Holmes. Gav explained that it was about telling a good story rather than hav- a blaxplotation concept and that he ‘started ing a Harvard style reference. Although that it as a webcomic a couple of years back when does not imply inaccuracy, but there is so I wasn’t getting any work in, but it got put little that we base things on sometimes, and on the back-burner after the first episode yet the research is painstakingly detailed. when the paying gigs started again. Blax- Here we have a strange selection of plotation meets Sherlock Holmes struck me articles, and we hope regular and irregular as interesting although in answering one of readers enjoy them. Chris’ questions, there is actually a Holm- sian Bollywood Movie. Gumshuda, released Chris and I wanted to do a Holmsian in August 2010, directed by Ashoke Viswa- issue, and our timing is either impeccable nathan available in Hindi, Tamil and Malay- or perhaps not so. The new movie is due alam is a reworking of The Sign of Four. out, and the BBC series of Sherlock is going One author who deserved much men- to be on telly in the New Year, but it wasn’t tion is Kim Newman. He is a great writer, until I walked into Wasterstones and saw and at this moment in time rather busy, The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz, and he recently had Professor Moriarty: The then The Breath of God by Guy Adams, did Hound of the Durberville released from Ti- I realise that we may be just about to get tan Books, who have realised how awesome rolled over by a bandwagon. his writing is, but I also love his Man I soon realised that it may not from the Diogenes Club story collec- be that bad, as there has always tion, which is Mycroft Holmes link, been and may always be a populari- but with tree books, the Files and ty that is constant and when I found the Mysteries’ of the Diogenes Club, Philip K. Jones spread- they are all superb, and sheet which lists 9040 of course there is the parodies, pastiches and Anno Dracula series, with Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes, In- boards, in a form that is easily accessed spector Lestrade, the Diogenes Club, Pro- and of course, in the room, there is a Loco- fessor Moriarty, Colonel Moran all appear- motive nameplate, from Metropolitan Vick- ing in the first book and various characters ers electric train on the shelves that held borrowed and placed into later books. More Du Waal, which of course references both on Kim at www.johnnyalucard.com Catherine Cooke and this amazing Library I had made enquires of the Sher- resource. Catherine also accessed book lock Holmes collection in Marylebone Li- cases of criticism in her office. She makes brary, and soon was on my way to it, a brief mention of the University of Minnesota in walk from work. A massive public building Minneapolis, and its special rare books and standing on a block, it is mostly Westmin- Holman collection, which is impressive and ster Council offices feeling like a structure large, and helpful. Yet it is in a far off land, forever here, granite faced with a bell tower, and so for my money, The Marylebone Li- but for the Library one enters a side door. A brary becomes a familiar place as I return more recent addition, with a modern layout during these works to refer and learn and and feel. find. www.westminster.gov.uk/services/li- Here I met Catherine Cooke, a won- braries/special/Sherlock/ derfully pleasant lady, who ‘looks after’ the Minnesota does have Du Waal, or a Holmes collection. She is in actual fact in version at least, as I found some discrep- charge of the library computer systems, and ancies, online, and this was another useful a librarian for thirty years, but she is full of resource. http://special.lib.umn.edu/rare/ enthusiasm and gusto, and gentle, I point ush/ush.html out I am an amateur, and she kindly con- I am grateful to Roger Johnson, of The tends that I am just ‘starting’ to look at the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, and edi- canon. She speaks of the Bruce Partington tor of the Sherlock Holmes Journal, he gave case and the work done to investigate the us permission to reprint Norman Crump’s place where the crime was expedited. “Inner or Outer Rail”, with acknowledge- I am led from the modern feeling li- ment to The Sherlock Holmes Journal. He brary down a Georgian corridor, tall sash suggested and I would have liked to pub- windows and gargantuan doors and Cath- lish Bernard Davies’s counterblast to Mr erine who then brings me to a room which Crump’s piece: “Ever Decreasing Circles: houses 1/3 of the collection. It is in a suit- A Slight Case of Railway Mania”, first pub- ably small room with a high ceiling, heavy lished in the 1995 issue of The Sherlock dark wooden sided glass door Holmes Railway Journal, but as you can see Here there are Cabinets of newsletters we are as full as can be. journals and periodicals, Shelves of books I asked him about August Derleth, behind glass doors and no end of Reference and the connection with Arthur Conan works, including Du Waal. Doyle, and he responded; She lays her delicate fingers upon all “August Derleth wrote in “A Praed the material I seek. I had found that there Street Dossier” (Mycroft & Moran, 1968): once was The Irregular Special Railway Com- “At the outset I wrote to Sir Arthur to ask pany, a society solely based on the Railway whether he intended to write more adven- connections of Holmes, and they produced tures of Sherlock Holmes. I waited for at the The Sherlock Holmes Railway Journal least a year after publication of The Case- edited by Anthony J. Richards, initiated for book of Sherlock Holmes. Early in autumn a number of years in 1993. This Journal on 1928, when I was in my junior year at both excites and defeats me, as I realise the University of Wisconsin, and holed up in some of the angles I wanted to pursue have a solitary back room at 823 West Johnson been effectively well written about to a level Street, Madison, Wisconsin (now the site of that is brilliant.