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CHRONOLOGY (1891 - 1910)
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1891 - Birth of Richard Wentworth (The Spider), son of Lord John Roxton, who
is, in turn, a descendant of Lord Byron.
1891 - Keith Hilary Pursuivant is born in Pursuivant Landing, KY.
March-April 1891 THE GREAT GAME
In this novel, the first Professor Moriarty
is described as being either the head of a vast criminal network, or the head
of the British Secret Service, or both. Of course he denies it. There is a Fat
Man named Gottfried Kaspar. In the same chapter we also see a man posing as a
priest named Father Ugarti. One of the amateur spies playing at the "Great
Game" is named Charles Bredlon Summerdale, who is the second son of a
duke. Although she does not appear "onscreen," it is mentioned
that Summerdale has a sister named Lady Patricia Templar. She is described as
being married to "an energetic young prelate destined someday to become an
archbishop, or even, if he had his way, a saint."
A Professor Moriarty
novel by Michael Kurland, St. Martin's, 2001. Gottfried
Kaspar is obviously based on Sydney Greenstreet's Caspar Gutman from John
Huston's filmed version of The
Maltese Falcon. For our purposes, we
may postulate that the man in The Great Game is the
father of Caspar Gutman. The variations on the name "Caspar" can be
viewed as a series of aliases used by this father and son throughout their
shady careers. Ugarti is the name of Peter Lorre's character in Casablanca. Again, it can't be the same man, but is likely his
father. Thus, there are crossover connections between this novel, The Maltese Falcon, and Casablanca.
Wold Newton researcher Dennis Power
postulates that Summerdale's sister and her husband, Mr. Templar, must have
emigrated to South Africa sometime between 1891 and the Boer War. The young
prelate, Mr. Templar, died in the Boer war in 1899. His widow, Mrs. Templar,
took up with A.J. Raffles and bore a child, giving him the name Simon Templar.
See also Brad Mengel's The Incredible
Raffles Clan. Thus, the young prelate has no connection to Simon Templar
other than his name and the allusion that Kurland makes by using the name Templar.
Moriarty denies being the head of the
British Secret Service, but if his denial is false, it certainly dovetails
nicely with the events revealed in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (1898) and also fits in with a theory of layers upon
layers within the British Secret Service.
In The Great Game, the
British Secret Service in 1891 is practically non-existent. A high
British official says that since Britain is not training and fielding real
agents, many young mean of idle means have stepped up to become "amateur"
agents in foreign lands, operating with the knowledge of Britain, but without a
truly official sanction. That's the first layer.
I would postulate that the second layer is
the group headed by Mycroft Holmes and sometimes headquartered at The Diogenes
Club. This is the same operation seen at work in the Quinn Fawcett books,
as well as in Andy
Lane's All Consuming Fire and in Kim Newman's Seven Stars. Charles Beauregard is also a part of this
group. This operation is fairly secret and is not widely known even among
most high British officials. Hence the British official's contention in
The Great Game that Britain is fielding only amateur agents.
Next is the third layer, which is the ultra
top secret "black ops" Secret Service group
controlled by the first Professor Moriarty, as seen in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Before 1891, Moriarty never had any offices in any
official British building and operated out of his home on Russell Square, as seen in The Great Game (as
well as many more secret lairs). Before 1891, he was both a criminal
mastermind and in charge of the British black ops group. After 1894,
Moriarty moved into the offices at Whitehall (seen in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) and his activities became more open, so that by
1898, Mycroft Holmes knew of Moriarty's role in the Secret Service, although he
was powerless to do anything about it. For more on the British Secret Service,
please see Brad Mengel's Keeping
Secrets.
May 1891-April 1894 - The Great Hiatus: Both Holmes and the first
Professor Moriarty are erroneously believed dead after their encounter at Reichenbach Falls
(Watson's The Final Problem). Holmes travels the world. Meanwhile, the third
Moriarty brother (also named James, herein referred to as the second Professor
Moriarty) has recruited followers from his not-so- late elder brother's
criminal organization for his own purposes.
Summer 1891-Spring 1893 IN STRANGE COMPANY
John Macklin, an English albino dwarf,
commits a series of crimes throughout the world. Count de Panuroff of Thursday Island also appears.
Novel by Guy Boothby. Count de
Panuroff was mentioned by a character in Boothby's Nikola novel A Bid for Fortune,
placing the events of this novel in the same continuity as Nikola, and thus in
the Wold Newton Universe. For more details, please see Rick Lai's The Life of Dr. Antonio
Nikola (1856-1898?).
1891 - The affair of Jules Verne's Le Château des Carpathes (The
Castle of the Carpathians).
September 1891 THE CANARY TRAINER Sherlock
Holmes, while living in Paris during the Great Hiatus and using his
"Sigerson" identity, matches wits with Erik, the Opera Ghost. Irene
Adler also appears in this case.
A novel by Nicholas Meyer. Meyer also "edited" The Seven-Percent Solution, a Holmes novel and film wherein Moriarty was not a
villain, but was an innocent unjustly persecuted by Holmes. I discount Meyer's
references to the events of The Seven-Percent Solution, following Wold Newton
scholar Mark Brown's theory that Meyer was fooled by the Seven-Percent
manuscript, which was a hoax perpetrated by the second Professor Moriarty. The
events of The Canary Trainer also appear to be a sequel or "copycat"
incident of some sort, since the original case of The Phantom of the Opera took
place in 1880. Following these events, Holmes pursued Irene Adler to Montenegro, a decision which would culminate in the birth of
twins Nero Wolfe and Marco Vukcic the next year.
December 1891 SHERLOCK HOLMES ON THE ROOF OF THE
WORLD, or, THE ADVENTURE OF THE WAYFARING GOD
During the Great Hiatus, Ludwig Horace Holly
and Leo Vincey are conducting research in the monasteries of Tibet, when they meet another European, a Norseman by the
name of Sigerson (Sherlock Holmes's identity during this time period). Sigerson
solves the murder of the head librarian of one of the monasteries.
A novel by Leo Vincey,
edited by Thomas Kent Miller. Holly (from H. Rider Haggard's She) and
Holmes are Wold Newton Family members, and this manuscript confirms that they actually knew
each other.
1892 - First documented appearance of Arsène
Lupin, as told by Maurice Leblanc. Other Lupin books are The
Crystal Stopper; Arsène
Lupin, Gentleman-Cambrioleur; Arsène Lupin Versus Herlock Sholmes; The
Hollow Needle: Further Adventures of Arsène Lupin;813;
and many others.
1892 TOO MANY STAINS (THE ADVENTURE OF THE
SECOND STAIN Sherlock and Mycroft
Holmes go up against international criminal Adolphus ZECCHINO The date is not a
mistake: the story does take place during The Great Hiatus. Adolphus Zecchino
went to America and continued his criminal career as Arnold Zeck.While in America, Zecchino's rackets inadvertently
created a crime fighter of some renown As seen here.. Holmes' son
Nero Wolfe clashed with criminal mastermind Zeck for several years before
Zeck's death in 1950 (Rex Stout's novel In the Best Families).
This short story is edited by Marvin Kaye, from a manuscript by Rex Stout, based
on the notes of Dr. Watson. In the volume Resurrected Holmes, Marvin
Kaye, ed., 1996.
1892 - A comical character attempts to travel around the world in 37 days, as
told by Jules Verne in Claudius
Bombarnac.
1892 - Doc Savage's great uncle, Bruce Clarke Wildman, begins his strange
adventures through time (The
Time Machine, as related to H.G. Wells; for more information, read Travels in
Time by Loki Carbis). Pastiche continuations of The Time Traveler's
story are (in no particular order): The Return of the Time Machine by
Egon Friedell, Morlock Night by K.W. Jeter, The Space Machine by
Christopher Priest, The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter, The Case of the
Inertial Adjustor by Stephen Baxter (in The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock
Holmes Stories), The Richmond Enigma by John DeChancie (in Sherlock
Holmes in Orbit), Allan and the Sundered Veil by Alan Moore and
Kevin O'Neill (in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen), Die Unter
Und Uber Der Erde by Robert Heymann (in Wunder Der Zukunft number 3, 1909),
and The Rook comic series.. Bruce Wildman, an Eridanean agent, while trying to create a warp
engine from a few Eridanean plans and primarily using existing nineteenth
century technology accidentally created a quantum singularity engine. Although
it did not move spatially it appeared to move through time. In reality, while
moving through time it also moved along a static quantum probability path, so
Wildman actually traveled through a set pattern of probabilities as moved
through time, by the time he reached the far future or distant past, the
probabilities also widened. In other words the farther to the past or the
farther to the past he traveled, the less likely it was to be any where near
his historical reality.
Mid 1892 - Birth of twin bothers Nero Wolfe (aka John Hamish
Adler, aka Auguste Lupa) and Marko Vukcic (aka Scott Adler). Their parents are
Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler.
1892 - Alexander Waverly is born in Northampshire, England.
1893 - Birth of Kent (The Shadow) Allard, half-brother of Richard Wentworth
(The Spider).
1893 - First recorded exploit of Dr. Nikola, First recorded exploit of Dr.
Nikola, A Bid for
Fortune, Or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta, as recounted by Guy Boothby (click here for more information). Other books in the series are:
Dr. Nikola Returns,
The Lust of Hate,
Dr. Nikola's
Experiment, and Farewell, Nikola!.
1893 - First appearance of detective Sexton Blake inThe Missing Millionaire, as related by Harry Blyth (click
here and here for more information).
April-May 1893 - August 1898 - November
1897-August 1898 THE SPACE MACHINE
Edward Turnbull and Amelia
Fitzgibbon use Sir William Reynolds' combination Time/Space Machine. They
initially travel to August 1898 and witness a Great Britain devastated by the Martian
Invasion. Escaping back in time, they are accidentally deposited on Mars,
approximately ten months before the August 1898 arrival of the Martian Invaders
on Earth.
A novel
by Edward Turnbull, edited by Christopher Priest, Popular Library, 1978,
combining elements of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine and The War of the
Worlds. On
Mars, Turnbull and Fitzgibbon encounter red-skinned humans who are enslaved by
the invaders. Therefore it is likely that Turnbull and Fitzgibbon were
deposited on Barsoom, which exists in a universe parallel to the Wold Newton
Universe. The Martian Invasion on Earth was launched from Barsoom, as seen in
Mars: The Home Front (August 1898) and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen II
(August 1898). The 1903 date attributed to the Martian Invasion in Turnbull's
account is inaccurate. For more on Sir William Reynolds and the various time
travelers, read Loki Carbis' first-rate Travels
in Time.
1893 - During The Great Hiatus, Sherlock Holmes
visits a realm known in this world only as "Wonderland" (The Case of the Detective's Smile).
1893 - Events of The
Sea Wolf by Jack London; Wolf Larsen
is the father of Mr. Moto (click here
for more information) and the
grandfather of Doc Savage.
1893 - Samuel Clemens makes a brief excursion to the future and visits the
U.S.S. Enterprise NCC 1701-D. In San Francisco, Lt. Commander Data of the Enterprise encounters Jack London, who will go on the chronicle
the exploits of several Wold Newton family members (the events of Time's
Arrow).
November 1893 THE SCOTTISH PLOY
Mycroft
Holmes refers to his contemporary, Professor Challenger.
This is the fourth in a series of books about
British spymaster Mycroft Holmes. The adventures were recorded by Holmes'
confidential secretary, Patersine Erskine Guthrie, and edited for publication
by Quinn Fawcett.
Early 1894 PRINCE OF SWINDLERS
Simon Carne, a clever
criminal, adopts the identity of private detective Klimo, and is soon lauded by
the British public as being "as great as Lecocq, or even the late lamented
Sherlock Holmes." The Earl of Amberley also appears.
Collection of interconnected short stories
by Guy Boothby, also published under the title The
Viceroy's Protégé. The Holmes reference is in the tale "The Duchess of
Wiltshire's Diamonds." Of course this reference is made whilst Holmes is
still thought dead. Lecocq is meant to refer to Emile Gaboriau's detective Lecoq.
Per Philip José Farmer, both Holmes and Lecoq are in the Newtonverse, so this
reference brings in Carne/Klimo. The Earl of Amberley was also seen in
Boothby's first
Dr. Nikola
novel, A Bid for Fortune, thus connecting Carne/Klimo to Nikola. For a complete
biography of Dr. Nikola, please read Rick Lai's superb The Life of Dr. Antonio
Nikola (1856-1898?).
1894 - Events of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (click here for more information).
1894 - Birth of Mr. Moto.
February-April 1894 FLASHMAN AND THE TIGER
The "brawl" in Baker Street: Harry
Flashman goes up against Colonel Moran. The final events of this conflict occur
concurrently with Watson's The Adventure of the Empty House.
Novel by G.M. Fraser. Apparently Flashman and Moran had also previously
met briefly in Flash
for Freedom! Follow the link
at Chronology Central to
the Flashman Chronology for a much more detailed account of this meeting.
1894Learning that her estranged husband Wolf Larson had died, Arronaxe Land marries Charlie Marlow, a sailor and
gentleman. Charlie Marlow is the narrator of Joseph Conrad's HEART
OF DARKNESS, LORD
JIM and THE
CHANCE
1894Chemist and biologist, Abegdano Danner having corresponded
with Marra then using the name Moreau was given a sample of an unstable
"serum" that Moreau had created that would give a
mammals the proportional strength of an insect. The "serum"
was actually a non-species specific genetic virus based on the DNA of the
Kryptonian, which Marra had helped develop. Danner successfully stabilized it
and tested it first on kitten and then on his unborn child. After Danner was
forced to destroy the kitten by poisoning it, he knew the "serum" was
too dangerous for general use or knowledge. He destroyed all his notes and the
rest of the "serum" The son Hugo Danner grew up to have abilities
close to Clark Kent's but frustrated at being a freak of nature turned to crime
and then went into seclusion. A lightning bolt in South America purportedly killed him. However in the
1940's a teenager having abilities close to Hugo Danner's first appeared. The
teenager, Arnold "Iron"
Munro was Hugo Danner's natural child.
Based on events in Philip Wylie's The Gladiator and The Young All Stars Comic book DC 1988
April 1894 - Holmes returns to England (Watson's The Adventure of the Empty House).
The second Professor Moriarty masquerades asthe first Professor Moriarty. And rebuilds his elder brother's criminal empire, while at the same
time coming to terms with Holmes and creating a truce of sorts. However,
the second Professor is quickly driven out of England (The Return of Moriarty). Unknown to all, the first
Professor Moriarty also survived Reichenbach Falls
and spends several years recovering from the fall (see Sherlock Holmes in New Yorkand The Earthquake Machine); he
allows his younger brother to continue with his own criminal escapades as
Professor Moriarty in order to confuse and confound Holmes. This is in conflict
with the younger Moriarty's falsified accounts in the so-called "Moriarty
Journals," in which the second Professor describes his 1888 murder of his
entirely innocent and somewhat downtrodden older brother, the original
Professor Moriarty. The second Professor was also responsible for other
fabrications in the two published volumes of the "Moriarty Journals (The Return of Moriarty and The Revenge of Moriarty, edited by John Gardner),
such as his account of the incident at Reichenbach Falls
May 1894-August 1896 - The second Professor James Moriarty is in America, plotting his return to England (The Revenge of Moriarty).
During this period, in the year 1895, the second Professor Moriarty and Kathryn
Koluchy establish their own criminal league/terrorist cult, the "Circle of
Life" (see The
Second War of the Worlds). Over the
years, this organization will evolve and come to be known as Krafthaus (see The Power House), and later THRUSH (see The Dagger
Affair).
1894 STAGECOACH
Brisco County, Jr., transports a British female espionage agent to Mexico for a prisoner exchange. The woman's name is Emma
Steed. An American agent named Ashenden also appears.
Episode of The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. Emma Steed and
Ashenden are most likely ancestors or relatives of British secret agent John
Steed (The Avengers) and W. Somerset Maugham's Ashenden,
respectively, both of whom are already in the Wold Newton Universe. This crossover places Brisco County, Jr., in the Newtonverse. Researcher Dennis Power
has uncovered Brisco's genealogy, which is revealed here.
June 1894 SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE BOULEVARD
ASSASSIN
Holmes is on the Continent, investigating the assassination of the
President of France. He works with Monsieur Dubuque of the Paris police, and crosses paths with the infamous thief
Arsène Lupin.
Novel by
Watson, edited by John Hall, Breese Books, 1998. Dubuque was first introduced in Watson's / Doyle's The Second Stain (not to be confused with Too Many Stains (The
Adventure of the Second Stain)), and Holmes would work with him again
during the case of The
Pandora Plague. In this account
Lupin is referred to as "Jupin," but there can be no doubt as to his
true identity.
1894 -Birth of Bruce Hagin Rassendyl (G-8), who will later use the identity
Jim "Red" Albright (Captain Midnight), brother of Kent Allard (The
Shadow) and half-brother of Richard Wentworth (The Spider). G-8's and The
Shadow's father, Ralph Rassendyll, is the cousin of Rudolf Rassendyll (from The Prisoner of Zenda and
Rupert of Hentzau).
1894 - The events ofLieut.
Gulliver Jones: His Vacation (aka Gulliver of Mars) as related
by Edwin L. Arnold, in which Gulliver Jones is carried to Mars, braves
several adventures, and eventually marries a Martian princess.
September 1894 - Arthur Conan Doyle and his sometime partner, Jack
Sparks, share an adventure in America in The Six Messiahs,
as told by Mark Frost.
1894 - Birth of Andrew Blodgett "Monk" Mayfair, nephew of Professor George Edward Challenger, and one of Doc Savage's
fabulous five.
October-November 1894 - Holmes first discovers that the first Professor
Moriarty is still alive and is resuming his criminal activity, as told in The Star of India,
by John H. Watson, edited by Carole Buggé.
1895 - The second Professor Moriarty and Kathryn Koluchy establish their own
criminal league/terrorist cult, the "Circle of Life." Over the years,
this organization will evolve and come to be known as Krafthaus, and later
THRUSH.
December
22, 1894-December 24,
1895THE
DISAPPEARANCE OF EDWIN DROOD
Mr. John Jasper consults Sherlock Holmes
regarding the disappearance of his nephew, Edwin Drood. In Cloisterham,
Dr. Watson drops that they are visitors from Baker Street, and the news quickly spreads that Sexton Blake is
in town.
A novel by Watson, edited
by Peter Rowland, Constable Crime Books, 1991. This novel is a follow-up to Charles Dickens'
incomplete novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Although Watson dismisses
Sexton Blake as a fictional creation, we know better. Even though this case
takes a year to solve, Holmes is involved in many, many different unrelated
cases during this time period.
March 1895 THE WEST END HORROR
On the trail of a murderer, Holmes and
Watson cross paths with many London luminaries, including George Bernard Shaw, Oscar
Wilde, actress Ellen Terry, Gilbert (of Gilbert and Sullivan), and Bram Stoker.
Novel by Watson, edited by
Nicholas Meyer. It is interesting
to note that several of the authors Holmes met were historians who brought to
light many interesting people and events of the Wold Newton Universe.
May 1895 THE PROBLEM OF THE SORE BRIDGE- AMONG OTHERS
Sherlock Holmes again crosses paths with the
notorious thief (and his former brother-in-law), A.J.
RAFFLES This is a short story by Watson, edited by Philip José Farmer, found in
Riverworld and Other Stories, published by Berkley Books, 1979. See also the
entry for Escape From Loki, 1918, and click here to read three articles
related to this subject by Christopher Carey
1895 - John
Kirowan is born.
1895 THE POLITICIAN, THE LIGHTHOUSE, AND THE
TRAINED CORMORANT
Holmes, in the course of solving this
mystery, evinces knowledge of a race of "Great Apes" (Mangani) of Africa and hints that during The Great Hiatus he observed Mangani capable of
raising a human being from infancy.
Apparently Holmes has some knowledge of the
details of Tarzan's birth. Short story edited by Craig Shaw Gardner, from a
manuscript by Edgar Rice Burroughs, based on the notes of Dr. Watson. In the
volume entitled Resurrected
Holmes, Marvin Kaye, ed., 1996.
Late October 1895 THE ADVENTURE OF THE INERTIAL ADJUSTOR
Writer H.G. Wells brings the murder of an
innovative scientist to Sherlock Holmes' attention.
Short story by Stephen
Baxter in The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes
Adventures, Mike Ashley, editor,
Carroll & Graf, 1997. The date given is 1894. However, Holmes is familiar
with Wells' account of The Time Machine; therefore, I have
adjusted the date to 1895.
Late November 1895 SHERLOCK HOLMES, DRAGON-SLAYER (THE
SINGULAR ADVENTURES OF THE GRICE PATERSONS IN THE ISLAND OF UFFA)
Joseph Jorkens and Sherlock
Holmes share an adventure together. Joseph Jorkens is also a Wold Newton Family member. Short story edited by Darrell
Schweitzer, from a manuscript by Lord Dunsany, based on the notes of Dr.
Watson. In the anthology Resurrected
Holmes, Marvin Kaye, ed., 1996.
March 1896 THE RICHMOND ENIGMA Sherlock Holmes investigates the disappearance of his distant relative,
the Time Traveler.
Short story by John
DeChancie in anthology Sherlock
Holmes in Orbit, DAW, 1995.
For more information on the Time Traveler,
please read Travels
in Time by Loki Carbis. Some more information can also be found at the Triple Tarzan Tangle
1896 - Birth of Hans von Hammer (Enemy Ace: War Idyll.)
1896 - Birth of Fah Lo Suee, daughter of Fu Manchu and an unnamed Russian
woman.
Fall 1896 THE GUILTY ABROAD
Writer and sleuth Samuel Clemens
(Mark Twain) settles his family in Tedworth Square in London for the winter, quickly becomes involved in a new
mystery, and works with Inspector Lestrade. Lestrade, of course, is from the
Sherlock Holmes mysteries by Watson / Doyle. This is not a crossover involving
the "real" Twain, the Mark Twain of "our" universe, but
rather the fictional character Twain of the Wold
Newton Universe. Following the death of his daughter, Susy, Twain and his
family secluded themselves in the Tedworth Square abode in the Fall-Winter of 1896. In this mystery by
Peter J. Heck, Berkley Books, 1999, Susy is alive and well.
September 1896-May 1897 - The second Professor Moriarty has returned to England and once again has turned his attention toward
rebuilding the Moriarty crime empire (The Revenge of Moriarty). However, the involvement
of Irene Adler in these proceedings is another falsehood perpetrated by the
second Professor.
November 1896 THE ADVENTURE OF THE HEADLESS MONK
Sherlock Holmes is consulted by Mortimer
Harley, a supernatural detective. Harley refers to his colleague
"Tarnacci" (Carnacki).
Written by Ken Greenwald in The Lost Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Mallard
Press, 1989. The story is based on the original Sherlock Holmes radio plays by
Denis Green and Anthony Boucher, which in turn were based on Dr. Watson's
notes. "Tarnacci" is clearly Carnacki; the error is just one
many the Good Doctor made in his transcriptions of Holmes' cases. Thomas
Carnacki, the "ghost finder," is an occult detective created by
William Hope Hodgson, and this crossover confirms his presence in the
Newtonverse.
1897 SHADOW OF DRACULA
Vampirella and Dracula
are both sent back in time from 1970 to 1897 where they meet Abraham van
Helsing and Abraham's brother, Boris van Helsing, who lives in Maine. Dracula appears to attempt to
reform. Mina and Jonathan Harker are also in Maine. Together, they all resurrect
Lucy Westenra, but only briefly. Dracula's "reformation" is
short-lived and he ends up attacking Mina before being defeated once again.
Vampirella Magazine
numbers 19-20, Warren Publishing. We can presume that Mina and Jonathan Harker
divorced shortly after these events, per The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
(1898), in which Mina still bears Dracula's bite marks from this attack. Boris
van Helsing is the ancestor of Conrad van Helsing and Conrad's son Adam, both
of whom are regulars in the Warren Vampirella series. For a complete
explanation of Vampirella's true origin in the Wold Newton Universe, please
read John A. Small's excellent Kiss of the Vampire.
Vampirella has encountered Dracula many times in her career. Not all of these
meetings will be documented in this timeline. For more information, please see
Chuck Loridans' Children of the Night, as well as the Vampirella timeline. Vampirella also has been
crossed-over with many other comic book creations. In order to maintain Wold Newton
Universe continuity, these will be taken on a case-by-case basis.
1897 - Kathryn Koluchy is blinded in a fire and becomes known as the
"Blind Spinner." The blinding of Kathryn Koluchy may not have been
accidental. To find out more
follow this link.
1897 - Simon Carne's first recorded exploit, A Prince of Swindlers, as told by Guy Boothby.
1897 - The events of H.G. Wells' The
Invisible Man., featuring scientist Dr. John Hawley Griffin, who
sometimes goes by Jack Griffin. For more information, please read the article,The Invisibles.
February-June 1897 THE CASE OF THE FAITHFUL RETAINER
Holmes mentions fellow investigator and
master-chef M. Auguste Didier several times in this adventure.
Short story by Amy Myers in The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes
Adventures. Myers also
writes the Didier mysteries, which take place contemporaneously with the Holmes
stories.
1897 - The events of The Lizard,
as related by C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne.
June 1897 HOLMES-DRACULA FILE
Sherlock Holmes and Vlad
Dracula cross paths while working against a group
intent on unleashing a plague upon London during the Queen's Jubilee.
Novel by Fred Saberhagen, Ace Books, 1978,
based on the memoirs of Vlad Dracula and an unpublished manuscript of John
Watson. This is the second adventure which Watson referred to as the
"Giant Rat of Sumatra," the first occurring in 1886; obviously, Watson
was enamored of the phrase. The Dracula encountered here is not the same as
that encountered by Holmes and Watson in 1890 (see Watson's The Adventure of the Sanguinary Count). For a full explanation of Vlad and his
relationship to the true Count, please read Best Fangs Forward,
which also covers the truth behind the "familial relationship"
between Holmes and Vlad, and which is based upon research by Brad Mengel, here. It is
revealed that Mina Harker, still married to Jonathan Harker, is Vlad Dacula's
lover. It must be presumed that Jonathan discovers the relationship shortly
after the conclusion of this case, for, by May of 1898, Mina Harker is known as
Mina Murray.
The Count returns to England to visit Mina Harker and becomes
involved in a plot by Jack Seward to sabotage the Queen's Jubilee by releasing
bubonic plague infested rats. Holmes investigates the disappearance of an American scientist who had vanished enroute to
Sumatra Dracula aids Holmes despite Holmes aversion to him, it is
revealed that Holmes is related to the Count, and in fact looks almost
identical to him, because the Count's brother Radu, also a vampire seduced
Holmes' mother while she was pregnant. The vampire "virus" evidently
imparts some DNA material that affects the unborn children.
Holmes had a twin brother who
was vampire from birth. The vampire twin brother may have often assisted his
brother by assuming his identity for "night work" or by posing him at
night.
Writes
fellow Newtonian researcher Brad Mengel, "I
have also discovered evidence that Sherlock Holmes' twin brother, whom Ihave
named Rutherford, may still be alive and sometimes impersonated
his brother. I stumbled onto Geoffery A Landis' "A Quiet evening
by Gaslight" in ALTERNATE OUTLAWS ed Mike Resnick where Watson
sees Holmes in a very different light after Holmes finishes reading DRACULA
and discusses it with his friend. I presume that Rutherford occasionally impersonated his brother.
Later on by 1977 Rutherford had set up a detective agency of his own under the
name of Cardula as seen in Jack Ritchies' "Cardula's Revenge" in
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery magazine. I am still looking for other
appearances of Rutherford under the name of Dracula.
For an
explanation of who Holmes encountered in the Case of the Sanguinary Count please
visit Best Fangs
Forward
June 1897 SEVEN STARS Episode One: THE MUMMY'S
HEART
Charles Beauregard is an agent of the
Diogenes Club (a front for the British Secret Service), reporting to Mycroft
Holmes. His current assignment involves investigating a series of murders
connected to the discovery of the Jewel of Seven Stars, found within the mummy
of Pai-net'em. Professor Abel Trelawny also appears, as do Inspector Lestrade,
Henry Wilcox, and Sir Joseph Whemple. Reporter Kate Reed is involved in this
adventure, and the mad Arab, Al-Hazred, is mentioned. Beauregard also consults
with Thomas Carnacki, the "ghost finder," and with Machen.
This chapter of Seven Stars by Kim Newman
confirms that the Charles Beauregard of the Anno
Dracula Universe has a counterpart in the Wold Newton Universe. I
originally proposed Charles Beauregard, Sr., as the paternal grandfather of
Clive Reston Beauregard. In conjunction with this, Matthew Baugh proposed that Mycroft
Holmes was the maternal grandfather of Reston. See The
Shang Chi Chronology for more information. Abel Trelawny is borrowed from
Stoker's The Jewel of
Seven Stars. Inspector Lestrade, Mycroft
Holmes, and the Diogenes Club are from Watson and Doyle's Sherlock Holmes
stories. Henry Wilcox is from E.M. Forster's Howards End.
The Whemple in this story must be the father of the Whemple in The Mummy,
bringing the events of that film into the Newtonverse. Kate Reed is a
"deleted" character from Stoker's Dracula; this Kate Reed has a
vampire counterpart in the Anno
Dracula Universe. Al-Hazred is from Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos stories.
Carnacki is an occult detective created by William Hope Hodgson; this story
places him in the Newtonverse. Machen is supernatural writer Arthur Machen
(1863-1947).
The action picks up again in February 1922
with Seven Stars Episode Two: The Magician and the Matinee Idol
June 1897 THE
ADVENTURE OF THE ANGEL'S TRUMPET
Barrister Kevin O'Bannion, an ancestor of
Patrick Butler, comes to Holmes for assistance in clearing his client of murder
charges.
John Dickson Carr's Patrick
Butler appeared first in Below Suspicion
with Dr. Gideon Fell. He then
appeared in his own novel, Patrick Butler for the Defense. This short story is by Carolyn Wheat, in Holmes for the Holidays,
Greenberg, Lellenberg, & Waugh, eds., Berkley Books, 1996.
1897 - The unsinkable liner Titan sinks, as
told in Morgan Robertson's novel Futility
Fall 1897THE DIME MUSEUM MURDERS
Young magician Harry Houdini and his brother,
Dash Hardeen, solve a series of murders in New York City. Houdini attempts to emulate his hero, Sherlock
Holmes, and quotes Holmes several different times. Houdini and Dash also
(erroneously) compare a criminal leader to Professor Moriarty, and there is a
reference to the master thief, Raffles.
Novel by Daniel Stashower,
Avon Books, 1999. Houdini would go on to meet Holmes in 1900, and several more times thereafter. This is not a
crossover involving the "real" Houdini of "our" universe,
but rather the fictional character Houdini of the Wold Newton Universe.
Interestingly, Harry and Dash refer to Holmes' final encounter with Moriarty at
Reichenbach, but don't refer to Holmes' return to London in 1894; this is undoubtedly because the story of
Holmes' survival was not widely publicized until the publication of "The Empty House" in 1903.
January 1898 THE CASE OF THE DETECTIVE'S SMILE
Holmes receives a visit from Alice Liddell and
they discuss their respective sojourns to the dimension known as Wonderland.
Short story by Mark Bourne in the
anthology Sherlock
Holmes in Orbit, DAW, 1995, (also online) bringing Alice Liddell into the Newtonverse.
Wonderland is an alternate realm to the Wold Newton Universe. See also Alternate Universes.
1898 THE YOUNG LORD PETER CONSULTS SHERLOCK HOLMES
Young Lord Peter Wimsey consults the Great
Detective upon the matter of a missing kitten. It is also revealed that
the Wimsey family is distantly connected with that of Reginald Musgrave
Lord Peter himself narrates this short
tale, which can be found in the book Sayers
on Holmes: Essays and Fiction on Sherlock Holmes by Dorothy L. Sayers,
Mythopoeic Press, 2001.
March 1898 - The events of H.G. Wells' The
Crystal Egg.
May-August 1898 THE
LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN
Allan Quatermain, Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Hyde,
Captain Nemo
(Prince Dakkar), The Invisible Man
(Hawley Griffin) and Mina Murray (formerly Mina Harker), are pitted against
the Devil Doctor who controls London's Limehouse. The Devil Doctor is clearly Fu Manchu, and the
conflict is part of a larger battle between Fu Manchu and the first Professor
Moriarty for control of London's underworld. C. Auguste Dupin, Campion Bond and
Mycroft Holmes also appear, as does Sherlock Holmes, albeit in a flashback to
the incident at Reichenbach Falls. The tale concludes as the Martian Invasion begins.
The League of Extraordinary
Gentlemen comics mini-series was written by Alan Moore, with art by
Kevin O'Neill, America's Best Comics, 1999-2000. Please visit Jess Nevins'
excellent site which annotates all six issues of The League of
Extraordinary Gentlemen, and which provides much of the information on
the crossovers, especially the less obvious ones, from League, which
appear on this Chronology. For supplemental information on Victorian characters
and stories, please visit Jess Nevins' A
Page of Fantastic, Mysterious, and Adventurous Victoriana.
The "main" crossovers are
listed above. Haggard's Quatermain, Doyle's Holmes brothers and James Moriarty,
Poe's Dupin, and Rohmer's Fu Manchu, are all Wold Newton Family members.
Presumably Campion Bond is as well; he is most likely a relative of Fleming's
James Bond, and I have identified him as Bond's great-uncle (for a James Bond
family tree, please see Win Eckert's The James Bond Chronology and
Genealogy). Mina Murray is from Stoker's Dracula;
Griffin is from Wells'The Invisible Man.,Nemo
is from Verne's 20,000 Leagues
Under the Sea and The Mysterious
Island; and the Martian Invasion is that depicted by Wells
in The War of the Worlds.
Here is a listing
of the remaining "minor" crossovers, characters, and references: Émile Zola's L'Assommoir
and Nana; Rosa Coote, Miss Flaybum,
"The Correctional Academy for Wayward Gentlewomen," and The Yellow
Room; Ishmael
from Melville's Moby Dick (Ishmael would be about 72 or 73 years old at this
time); Harry
Blyth's detective Sexton Blake; Inspector Dick Donovan; Verne's Robur the
Conqueror; Reverend Septimus Harding from Anthony Trollope's The
Warden;
Plantagenet Palliser from Trollope's Palliser/Parliamentary novels; Dickens' David
Copperfield;
Wells' Lavelle of Java and War of the Worlds; Olive Chancellor of Henry James' The
Bostonians; Katy Carr from Susan Coolidge's What Katy Did and sequels;
Becky Randall from Kate Douglas Wiggin's Rebecca of
Sunnybrook Farm and More About Rebecca (although the timing is problematic);
Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna (again the timing
may be problematic); Lord and Lady Pokingham; Ayesha, aka"She-who-must
be-obeyed," from H.R. Haggard's books; Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's
Travels; Cooper's Natty Bumppo; Orczy's Sir Percy Blakeney (see my The Demmed Blakeneys); Thorndike's Dr.
Syn; John Cleland's Fanny Hill; Captain Mors (click here for more information); Verne's Journey to
the Centre of the Earth; Professor Selwyn Cavor from Wells' The First Men in
the Moon; Quong
Lee from Thomas Burke's Limehouse Nights: Tales of Chinatown, The Song
Book of Quong Lee of Limehouse, and The Pleasantries of Old Quong; Jim Hawkins, Long
John Silver, and Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure
Island; E. Harcourt
Burrage's Broad Arrow Jack; Guy Boothby’s Klimo, aka Simon
Carne; Guy Boothby's Dr. Nikola; Morgan Robertson's novel Futility
(aka The
Wreck of the Titan); Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg; Samuel Ferguson from
Verne's Five Weeks in a Balloon; the Artful Dodger, from Dickens’ Oliver
Twist;
Charles Ross and Marie Duval's Ally Sloper, F.O.M.; Tom Browne's Weary Willy
and Tired Tim; Edward S. Ellis' The Huge Hunter, or, the Steam
Man of the Prairies; and H.G. Wells' story The Purple Pinaeum.
Here are a few references from the hardcover edition of The
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (not repeating those references already
identified):Basil Hallward and Dorian Grey from Oscar Wilde's The
Picture of Dorian Grey; H.P. Lovecraft’s Pickman’s Model; The
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari; Thomas More’s Utopia; Zenda; Flatland;
Vrilya, from Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Coming Race; Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle’s The Lost World; Wonderland, from Lewis Carroll’s Alice
in Wonderland; Jules Verne's The Steam House; Sapathwa, aka the
penny dreadful villain The Blue Dwarf; Bracebridge Hemyng's Jack
Harkaway's Schooldays; Sir Francis Varney, from James Malcolm Rymer's Varney
the Vampyre, or, The Feast of Blood; and Count Allamistakeo, from Edgar Allan Poe's Some
Words With A Mummy.
Here are additional references
from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen game. While these
don't appear in the story proper, they are obviously intended by the authors to
be a part of the League universe, and thus are part of the Wold Newton
Universe. Again, many thanks to Jess Nevins for his annotations: Spring-Heeled Jack; Charles
Dickens' unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Sweeney Todd;
Professor Gibberne from H.G. Wells’ A New Accelerator; Fan Chu Fang,
the Wizard Mandarin, the Chinese arch-enemy of Dixon Brett; Prince Wu-Ling, the
Fu Manchu-like enemy of Sexton Blake; Wu Fang; Rudyard Kipling’s Gunga
Din;
Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone; Mowgli from Rudyard Kipling’s The
Jungle Book (click here for more information); Hugh Lofting’s
Dr. John Dolittle; Edgar A. Poe’s The Black Cat; Charles Dickens’
Great Expectations; Edgar Allan Poe's The
Premature Burial; Alexandre Dumas' The Man in the Iron
Mask;
Frank Norris’ McTeague; Wardon Curtis’ The Monster of Lake
LaMetrie; adventurer Nick Carter, who first appeared in The
Old Detective’s Pupil; Cthulhu; Charles Hamilton's Billy Bunter; E. W.
Hornung's Raffles; Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; J. Sheridan
LeFanu’s Carmilla;Hank Morgan from Mark Twain’s A
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court; Mr. Kurtz from Joseph Conrad’s Heart
of Darkness; Frank Reade, Jr.; Washington Irving’s The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow; A. E. W. Mason's The Four Feathers; Jules Verne’s From
the Earth to the Moon; Jules Verne’s Un Express de
L’Avenir; Charles Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer; Maurice
Leblanc’s Arsène Lupin; H.G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau; Lulu from Frank
Wedekind’s Earth-Spirit and Pandora's Box; Henry Hobson
from Harold Brighouse’s Hobson's Choice; Mr. Cave from
H.G. Wells’ The Crystal Egg; Severin from Leopold von
Sacher-Masoch’s Venus in Furs; Pere Ubu from Alfred Jarry’s
Ubu Roi; Harry Flashman, who first appeared in Thomas Hughes’ Tom
Brown's Schooldays and then in George Macdonald Fraser’s Flashman
novels;Richard
Marsh’s The Beetle; and Fred M. White’s The Purple Terror.
Note that most of
the main characters in League believe that Sherlock Holmes is
still dead, not realizing that he returned to London in 1894. (His brother,
Mycroft, is, of course, tellingly silent on the matter.) Holmes would encounter
this same problem during his 1900 meeting with Harry Houdini, and would
continue to run into this problem until Watson finally got around to publishing
his account of The Adventure of the Empty House, which chronicled
Holmes' "return to life" after his battle to the death with the first
Professor Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls.
Allan Quatermain,
Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Hyde, Captain Nemo (Prince Dakkar), The Invisible Man
(Hawley Griffin) and Mina Murray (formerly Mina Harker), are pitted against the
Devil Doctor who controls London's Limehouse. The Devil Doctor is clearly Fu
Manchu, and the conflict is part of a larger battle between Fu Manchu and the
first Professor Moriarty for control of London's underworld. C. Auguste Dupin,
Campion Bond and Mycroft Holmes also appear, as does Sherlock Holmes, albeit in
a flashback to the incident at Reichenbach Falls.
The League of
Extraordinary Gentlemen comics mini-series
was written by Alan Moore, with art by Kevin O'Neill, America's Best Comics,
1999-2000. Please visit Jess Nevins' excellent site which annotates all six
issues of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and
which provides much of the information on the crossovers, especially the more
obscure ones, from League, which appear on this Chronology.
The
"main" crossovers are listed above. Haggard's Quatermain, Doyle's
Holmes brothers and James Moriarty, Poe's Dupin, and Rohmer's Fu Manchu, are
all Wold Newton Family members. Presumably Campion Bond is as well; he is most
likely a relative of Fleming's James Bond, perhaps his great-uncle. Mina Murray
is from Stoker's Dracula; Griffin is from Wells' The
Invisible Man; and Nemo is from Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island.
Here is a listing
of the remaining "minor" crossovers, characters, and references (this
list is currently unfinished and will be completed as time permits): Émile
Zola's L'Assommoir and Nana; Rosa Coote, Miss Flaybum, "The Correctional
Academy for Wayward Gentlewomen," and The Yellow Room; Ishmael from
Melville's Moby Dick (Ishmael would be about 68 or 69 years old at this time); Harry Blyth's
detective Sexton Blake; Dickens' David Copperfield; Wells' War
of the Worlds; and Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth.
Note that most of
the main characters believe that Sherlock Holmes is still dead, not realizing
that he returned to London in 1894. (His brother, Mycroft, is, of course,
tellingly silent on the matter.) Holmes would encounter this same problem
during his 1900 meeting with Harry Houdini, and would continue to run into this
problem until Watson finally got around to publishing his account of The
Adventure of the Empty House, which chronicled Holmes' "return to life"
after his battle to the death with the first Professor Moriarty at Reichenbach
Falls.
August 1898 - The
events of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds.
August 1898 SHERLOCK HOLMES'
WAR OF THE WORLDS
In this companion
novel to H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Watson,
Lord John Roxton, and Professor George Edward Challenger fight against the
Martian invasion. Professor Challenger's assistant, Morgan, is revealed to be
the son of Colonel Moran.
This is a novel by
Challenger's biographer, Edward D. Malone, and Holmes' biographer, Watson,
edited by Manly W. Wellman and Wade Wellman, Warner Books, 1975 (for the reason
why the editors added a purely fictional romance between Holmes and his
landlady, Mrs. Hudson, please read the article, The Kissable Mrs. Hudson). The 1901-1902
dates given are unlikely. Although the prelude revolving around the Crystal Egg
begins in March 1898, Holmes is involved in many different unrelated adventures
during the six-month period of March-August 1898. The events of the Martian
Invasion, and the main events of this novel, take place during August of 1898.
The epilogue takes place in October 1898.
Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle edited many stories about Professor Challenger, such as The Lost World
and The Poison Belt. Challenger is also the uncle of Doc Savage's aide, Monk
Mayfair. Regarding the red planet, Challenger was correct in his conclusion
that the invaders did not come from Mars - at least not our Mars, since Mars in
our universe is (supposedly) a dead planet. However, Challenger was incorrect
in stating that they came from beyond our solar system. Instead, the invaders
came from a Mars that exists in a dimension parallel to our own, that
containing John Carter's Mars, otherwise known as Barsoom. For more information
on the theory that Barsoom exists in a parallel universe to Earth, see John
Flint Roy's A Guide to Barsoom, Ballentine Books, 1976. See also Alternate Universes.
August 1898 - The
events of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds.
August 1898 THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN II
Allan Quatermain, Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Hyde,
Captain Nemo (Prince Dakkar), The Invisible Man (Hawley Griffin) and Mina
Murray (formerly Mina Harker) again join forces, this time against the Martian
Invasion. They continue to take their orders from Campion Bond, who in turn
serves a new "M," presumably Mycroft Holmes. Meanwhile, on Mars
(Barsoom), John Carter, the Barsoomian Green Martians, the Sorns, and Gulliver
Jones of Mars are prominently featured.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen II comics mini-series was written by Alan Moore, with
art by Kevin O'Neill, America's Best Comics, 2002. The invaders come from a
Mars that exists in a dimension parallel to our own, that containing John
Carter's Mars,otherwise known as Barsoom. For more
information on the theory that Barsoom exists in a parallel universe to Earth,
see John Flint Roy's A Guide to Barsoom, Ballentine Books, 1976, and the
Alternate Universes page. The prologue depicting
the united forces of Mars battling against the invaders, and finally driving
some of them off Mars and towards Earth, takes place in July 1898. The final
details of this battle are related in Mars: The Home Front (August
1898).
Please go to Jess Nevins' exceptional site which annotates
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen II, and which provides
much of the information on the crossovers, especially the less obvious ones,
from League II, which appear on this Chronology. For supplemental
information on Victorian characters and stories, please visit Jess Nevins' A Page of Fantastic, Mysterious, and Adventurous Victoriana.
The
"main" crossovers are listed above. Haggard's Quatermain is a Wold
Newton Family member. It is likely that Campion Bond is also. The marks upon
Bond's walking stick spell out "007" in Morse Code, solidifying his
connection to Fleming's James Bond, and thus I have identified Campion as James
Bond's great-uncle (for a James Bond family tree, please see my The James Bond Chronology and Genealogy). Mina Murray is
from Stoker's Dracula; Griffin is from H.G. Wells' The
Invisible Man; Nemo is from Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under
the Sea and The Mysterious Island; and the Martian Invasion is
depicted by Wells in The War of the Worlds. Mycroft Holmes,
of course is from Doyle's and Watson's Sherlock Holmes tales. For a bit more on
Mycroft's (and Professor Moriarty's) role as "M," see the entries for
The Great Game and Son of Holmes. Lieut.
Gulliver Jones: His Vacation (aka Gulliver of Mars) was written by
Edwin L. Arnold. Although called "Gullivar" here, the reference is
clearly to Gulliver Jones. John Carter, of course, is the hero of Edgar Rice
Burroughs' Martian series; a timeline of Burroughs' tales can be found here.
The Sorns are
from from C.S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra
and That
Hideous Strength). The Martian Invasion itself, of course, is told of in H.G. Wells' The War of
the Worlds.
Here is a listing of the remaining "minor"
crossovers, characters, and references: the "Hither People" from Lieut.
Gulliver Jones: His Vacation; "Varnal, the Green City" from Michael Moorcock’s
Mars series (Warriors of Mars, Blades of Mars, and Barbarians
of Mars,
featuring Michael Kane, a physics professor transported to Mars' distant past,
written under the pseudonym of Edward P. Bradbury); The Crystal
Egg by H.G. Wells
(which features in Sherlock Holmes' War of the Worlds as a reconnaissance device
for the invading Martians); Guy Boothby's Dr. Nikola; Reverend Harding, from
Anthony Trollope's The Warden; The Bleak House inn, from Charles Dickens' Bleak House; Major Henry Blimp, the
future Colonel Blimp; the straight razor in the museum with the plaque
"Kettlewell, Yorkshire, Mr. W. =C. Cording" is a reference to The Lizard by Charles John Cutcliffe
Hyne; --- (current through issue number two, with updates as
time permits).
Here are additional references from The
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen II: The New Traveller's Almanac. Once again I am
indebted to Jess Nevins' incredible annotations! While
these don't appear in the story proper, they are obviously intended by the
authors to be a part of the League universe, and thus are part of the
Wold Newton Universe.
The New Traveller's Almanac:
Chapter One: The British Isles: Prospero, Ariel and Caliban from
Shakespeare’s The Tempest; Christian from John Bunyan’s The
Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that Which is to
Come; The Blazing World from Observations upon Experimental Philosophy.
To which is added the Description of a New Blazing World. Written by the Thrice
Noble, Illustrious and Excellent Princess, The Duchess of Newcastle by
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle; The Bellman Expedition and Snark
Island from Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark; a previous
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, comprised of a very elderly Lemuel Gulliver,
Sir Percy Blakeney and wife, the Reverend Dr. Syn (aka Captain Clegg), Fanny
Hill, and Natty Bumppo; The Streaming Kingdom from Jules Superville’s L'Enfant
de la Haute Mer; St. Brendan’s Isle, and the "aquatic infants" from
Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies; Victoria from James Buckingham’s National
Evils and Practical Remedies, with a Plan of a Model Town; Avondale from Grant
Allen’s The Child of the Phalanstery; Commutaria is from Elspeth Ann Macey’s
Awayday; Abaton from Sir Thomas Bulfinch’s My Heart’s In the Highlands;
Baskerville Hall from Watson's and Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of
the Baskervilles; Crotchet Castle from Thomas Love Peacock's Crotchet Castle;
Yalding Towers from E. Nesbit's The Enchanted Castle; Ravenal's Tower from E.
Nesbit's The Wouldbegoods; The "White House" and the Psammead from E.
Nesbit's Five Children and It; Doyle's The Adventure of the Lion's Mane;
Rudyard Kipling's The Wish House; Stella Gibbons' Cold Comfort Farm; H.P.
Lovecraft's The Dreams in the Witch-House; Yspaddaden Penkawr from The Mabinogion;
H.P. Lovecraft's The Rats in the Walls; Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood, a Play
for Voices; Captain Robert Owemuch from The Floating Island; Doyle's The
Adventure of the Creeping Man; Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
and Through the Looking Glass; Graham Greene's Under the Garden; Jules Verne's
Les Indes Noires; the Vril-ya race from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race;
Joseph O'Neill's Land Under England; Thomas Love Peacock's Nightmare Abbey;
Alan Garner's The Weirdstone of Brisingamen; Bram Stoker's Lair of the White
Worm; C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia; James Stephens' The Crock of Gold;
The Lake of the Cauldron from The Mabinogion; Oscar Wilde's The Selfish Giant;
Charles Maturin's The Castle of Leixlip; James Yorkston's Cockles and Mussels;
J. Sheridan Le Fanu's The Siege of the Red House; Brian O'Nolan's The Third
Policeman; W.H. Hodgson's The House on the Borderlands; Alan Jay Lerner's
Brigadoon; W.H. Hudson's A Crystal Age; William Morris' The Story of the
Glittering Plain; Ayesha's city, Kôr, from H. Rider Haggard's She.
The New Traveller's Almanac:
Chapter Two: Europe: Samuel Gott's Novae Solymae libri sex; Hugh Lofting's The
Voyages of Doctor Dolittle; Washington Irving's The Alhambra; Lucian
of Samosata's True History; Coromandel and the Yonghi-Bonghi of Bo from
Edward Lear's The Courtship of Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò; Lanternland, and the
glowing Lords and Ladies, from Le Voyage de navigation que fist Panurge;
The Oracle in the Bottle from Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and
Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel; The Island of the Lotus-Eaters,
Ogygia, Odysseus, Aiolio, and the Cyclops from Homer's Odyssey; Alfred
Jarry's Gestes et Opinions du Docteur Faustroll, Pataphysicien (Gestures
and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician); Anne Marie Louise
Henriette d'Orléans, Duchesse de Montpensier's Rélation de L'Isle
Imaginaire (Relation of the Imaginary Island); Henri Michaux's Voyage en
Grande Garabagne (Voyage to Grand Garabagne); Gustavo Becquer's El Monte
de las ánimas (The Mountain of the Spirits); Claudius Aelianus' Varia
Historia; Max Frisch's Andorra; La Mancha, Barataria, Sancho Panza, Montesino's
Cave, and Don Quixote from Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's El ingenioso
hidalgo Don Quixote de La Mancha (The Ingenious Noble, Don Quixote de la Mancha;
Boris Vian's L'Automne à Pékin (The Fall of Peking); Nicolas Edme Restif
de la Bretonne's L'Andrographe; Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso;
Jorge Luis Borges' La Muerte y la brújula (Death and the compass);
Georges Duhamel's Lettres d'Auspasie (Letters from Auspasia) and La
dernier voyage de Candide (The Last Voyage of Candide); Giovanni Boccaccio's
Decameron; Pierre Louys's Les Aventures du Roi Pausole (The
Adventures of King Pausole); Béroualde de Verville's Le Moyen de
parvenir (The Means to reach); Alfred Jarry's Gestes et Opinions du
Docteur Faustroll, Pataphysicien; François Rabelais' Le quart livre des
faicts et dicts du bon Pantagruel and Le cinquiesme et dernier livre des
faicts et dicts du bon Pantagruel; Denis Diderot's Les Bijoux Indiscrets
(The Indiscreet Jewels) and Jacques le fataliste et son maître (Jacques
the Fatalist and his Master); Ferdinand Raimund's Die gefesselte
Phantasie (The Bound Imagination); Béroualde de Verville's Le Moyen de
parvenir; Alphonse Daudet's Lettres de mon moulin; Poictesme, from
the works of James Branch Cabell, such as Jurgen; Averoigne from
the stories of Clark Ashton Smith, such as A Rendezvous in Averoigne;
Luc Alberny's Le Mammoth Bleu (The Blue Mammoth); André Maurois' Patapoufs
et Filifers; the film Les Visiteurs du soir (The Visitors in the
Evening); Claude Gilbert's Histoire de Calejava ou de l'Ilse des Hommes
Raisonnables (History of Calejava or the Island of Reasonable Men); Claire
Kenin's La Mer mystérieuse (The Mysterious Sea); Victor Hugo's La
Ville disparue (The Disappeared City); Luigi Motta's Il tunnel
sottomarino (The Undersea Tunnel); J.H. Rosny (jeune)'s L'Enigme du
"Redoutable" (The Enigma of the "Redoubtable"); Marie
Anne de Roumier Robert's Les Ondins (The Water Sprites); Vasco de
Lobeira's Amadis de Gaula (Amadis of Gaul); G.K. Chesterton's Introductory:
On Gargoyles; Daniel Defoe's sequel to Robinson Crusoe, The
Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Jacques Prévert's Lettre des îles
Baladar (Letter from the Baladar Islands); Alfred, Lord Tennyson's The
Idylls of the King; Charles Nodier's Hurlubleu, Grand Manifafa
d'Hurlubiere; Maurice Barrère's La Cité du sommeil (The City of Sleep);
François Rabelais' La Vie très horrifique du grand Gargantua (The Very
Horrific Life of the Great Gargantua); Amra, Aquilonia, and the Swedish
warrior-king (Conan) from the works of Robert E. Howard; the Melnibonean empire
and the black sword (Stormbringer) from the Elric of Melnibone books of Michael
Moorcock (note that other references in the Wold Newton Universe treat
Melnibone as an alternate universe); Nicolas Edme Restif de la Bretonne's Le
Pornographe (The Pornography); André Dhôtel's Les Pays où l'on n'arrive
jamais (The Country One Never Reaches); Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of
the Opera; Jules Verne's Robur; Jean de La Hire's The Nyctalope;