1795 - Wold Newton meteor strike: Eighteen individuals "were riding in two coaches past Wold Newton, Yorkshire.... A meteorite struck only twenty yards from the two coaches.... The bright light and heat and thunderous roar of the meteorite blinded and terrorized the passengers, coachmen, and horses.... They never guessed, being ignorant of ionization, that the fallen star had affected them and their unborn." Tarzan Alive, Addendum 2, pp. 247-248. The meteor strike was "the single cause of this nova of genetic splendor, this outburst of great detectives, scientists, and explorers of exotic worlds, this last efflorescence of true heroes in an otherwise degenerate age." Id., pp.230-231. Artwork by Lisa EckertTHE WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE

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Coming in early 2009 from MonkeyBrain Boooks: CROSSOVERS: A Secret Chronology of the World by Win Scott Eckert.

 

TARZAN ALIVE, Bison Books, 2006TARZAN ALIVE by Philip José Farmer. Bison Books, 2006. Or order it from: Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble.com.

The new Bison Books edition of Tarzan Alive includes a new Introduction by Mike Resnick, Farmer's "An Exclusive Interview with Lord Greystoke" and "Extracts From the Memoirs of 'Lord Greystoke'" (neither of which were collected along with Tarzan Alive in previous editions) and a New Foreword by Win Scott Eckert.

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Myths for the Modern Age: Philip Jose Farmer's Wold Newton UniverseMYTHS FOR THE MODERN AGE: PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER’S WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE edited by Win Scott Eckert. MonkeyBrain Boooks, 2005. Or order it from: Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble.com.

In his classic “biographies” of fictional characters (Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life), Hugo- and Nebula-award winning author Philip José Farmer introduced the Wold Newton family, a collection of heroes and villains whose family-tree includes Sherlock Holmes, Fu Manchu, Philip Marlowe, and James Bond. In books, stories, and essays he expanded the concept even further, adding more branches to the Wold Newton family-tree. MYTHS FOR THE MODERN AGE: PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER’S WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE, edited by Win Scott Eckert, collects for the first time those rarely-seen essays. Expanding the family even farther are contributions from Farmer’s successors—scholars, writers, and pop-culture historians—who bring even more fictional characters into the fold.

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Dead Travel Fast DEAD TRAVEL FAST is Kim Newman's first American collection of short stories: "A Drug on the Market"; "Tomorrow Town"; "The Original Dr Shade"; "Famous Monsters"; "Organ Donors"; "Going to Series"; "Angel Down Sussex"; "Dead Travel Fast"; "Amerikanski Dead at the Moscow Morgue";and "The Big Fish." Dinoship, Inc., 2005. Order it from: Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.

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This anthology is sure to be of interest to fans of both the Anno Dracula series and the Wold Newton Universe:

"Dead Travel Fast": What was the Count doing in London while he was "off-screen" during the events of Bram Stoker's Dracula? This story doesn't contradict anything in the Anno Dracula continuity.

“Famous Monsters”: A Martian actor recalls the Second War of the Worlds where Earth forces, in alliance with the Selenites (from Wells’ The First Men in the Moon) used cavorite to defeat the Martians.

"Angel Down Sussex": Autumn 1925. Edwin Winthrop and Catriona Kaye continue their work on behalf of the Diogenes Club, which is becoming the occult investigative arm of the British Secret Service, dealing with the apparently inexplicable. Charles Beauregard is still in charge of the Diogenes Club section of the BSS. Catriona mentions Dr. Martin Hesselius and Dr. Silence. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Aleister Crowley also figure in the case, which involves “Little Grey People” and mysterious undertakers who appear out of nowhere, all dressed in black with tops hats and smoked glasses covering their eyes.

Dr. Hesselius was a German psychic physician introduced in J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Green Tea” first published in the periodical All the Year Round (1869). Algernon Blackwood created and wrote the stories featuring the occult investigator Dr. John Silence. This crossover brings both characters into the WNU. The Diogenes Club appeared in Doyle and Watson’s tales of Sherlock Holmes. It is specifically stated that Sherlock Holmes and Mycroft Holmes are real people in relation to the man who brought their stories to the public, Doyle. The Little Grey People are possibly alien “grey” aliens as depicted in The X-Files and elsewhere. If so, then the “greys” visited Earth much earlier than 1947 (the Roswell incident). The undertakers evoke what later will be termed the “Men in Black.”

"The Big Fish": February 1942. In the rain-swept coastal town of Bay City, L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe has a brush with the Deep Ones and becomes one of the few people to lay eyes on The Necronomicon. Also appearing are Edwin Winthrop, agent of a special section of British Intelligence especially assigned to deal with Cthulhuoid horrors, and his vampire partner, Geneviève Dieudonné. Special Agent Finlay of the “Unnameables” Section of the FBI is also part of the anti-Cthulhu task-force.

A direct sequel to H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” and is one of the most skillful crossover pastiches I’ve ever read. The section of the FBI that employs Finlay is undoubtedly a precursor of the modern X-Files section. Edwin Winthrop and Genevieve Dieudonné are Wold Newton Universe versions of their counterparts in the Anno Dracula Universe (ADU), just as Charles Beauregard is a WNU version of his ADU counterpart in All-Consuming Fire. Furthermore, “The Big Fish” cannot take place in the ADU because Marlowe and Genevieve meet for the first time in 1977 in that Universe; see Newman’s story “Castle in the Desert.”

 

 

Tales of the Shadowmen volume 1TALES OF THE SHADOWMEN, VOLUME 1: THE MODERN BABYLON edited by Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier. Black Coat Press, 2005. Order it from: Amazon.com, Black Coat Press, or Barnes & Noble.com.

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This anthology features short stories inspired by French pulp fiction, written by several Wold Newton "creative mythographers," including Matthew Baugh, Win Scott Eckert, Greg Gick, and Rick Lai, as well as much more established science-fiction writers such as Brian Stableford, Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier, John Peel, Terrance Dicks, Chris Roberson, and Robert Sheckley, among others. Nor are the stories limited to only French characters... Wold Newton Family members such as Doc Savage (aka "Doc Ardan," appearing in Win Scott Eckert's "The Vanishing Devil"), , Fu Manchu, Sherlock Holmes, and The Shadow, all make appearances in the anthology (even if some of them appear in disguise), as do perennial French Wold Newton Family members C. Auguste Dupin and Arsène Lupin. Several of the stories refer to or utilize Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Family theories and concepts. For fans of the monster corner of the Wold Newton Universe, there are stories featuring Frankenstein's Creature, the Cthulhu Mythos, and Erik (Phantom of the Opera).

 

 

Tales of the Shadowmen volume 2TALES OF THE SHADOWMEN, VOLUME 2: GENTLEMEN OF THE NIGHT edited by Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier. Black Coat Press, 2006 . Order it from: Amazon.com, Black Coat Press, or Barnes & Noble.com.

 

 

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More short stories inspired by French, American, and British pulp fiction. The stories take place in a fictional world where all of the characters and events from adventure literature actually exist in the same universe. Like the first volume, Tales of the Shadowmen 2: Gentlemen of the Night is chock full of Wold Newtonian and pulp fiction goodness. In Win Scott Eckert's “The Eye of Oran,” Violet Holmes, the niece of Sherlock Holmes, vies with Doctor Natas (Dr. Fu Manchu) for a mysterious jewel in plague-ridden Oran. Will Doc Ardan (Doc Savage) arrive in time? Other stories feature Arsène Lupin, Fantômas, Harry Dickson, the Phantom of the Opera, Sherlock Holmes, Zenith the Albino, D'Artagnan, Doctor Omega (Doctor Who), Irene Adler, the Nyctalope, the Sâr Dubnotal, Judex, The Time Traveler, John Devil, Frankenstein, Countess Cagliostro, Rouletabille, the Moonstone, Joseph Jorkens, the Lovecraftian Mythos, and more.

 

 

Tales of the Shadowmen volume 3TALES OF THE SHADOWMEN, VOLUME 3: DANSE MACABRE edited by Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier. Black Coat Press, 2007. Order it from: Amazon.com, Black Coat Press, or Barnes & Noble.com.

 

 

 

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The third annual merry-go-round of heroes and villains of popular literature, the danse macabre of the Shadowmen. The stories take place in a fictional world where all of the characters and events from adventure literature actually exist in the same universe. ike the previous two volumes, Tales of the Shadowmen 3: Danse Macabre is packed with pulp meta-fiction. In Win Scott Eckert's "Les Lèvres Rouges,” Doc Ardan (Doc Savage), Adélaïde Lupin (daughter of legendary thief Arsène Lupin), and private eye Nestor Burma race to recover the Eye of Dagon from the vampire Countess Elisabeth Bathory and Le Chiffre. Other stories feature Fantômas, Hercule Poirot, Doctor Omega (Doctor Who), Judex (a French version of The Shadow), King Kong, John Devil, the Mahars of Pellucidar, Captain Kronos, Madame Atomos, the Black Coats, Modesty Blaise, the Lovecraftian Mythos, Solomon Kane, Dr. Mystère, OSS 117, and more.

 

 

Lance Star--Sky RangerLANCE STAR—SKY RANGER edited by Ron Fortier, Wild Cat Books, 2006. Order it from: Amazon.com, Wild Cat Books, or Barnes & Noble.com.

 

 

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From the pages of the 1930s flying hero pulps comes Lance Star—Sky Ranger… Wild Cat Books presents a series of pulp anthologies made up of all new stories focusing on one specific, classic pulp hero. The brainstorm of veteran comics-scribe Ron Fortier, the first volume stars the long gone (but not forgotten) pulp character of ace aviator Lance Star—Sky Ranger in four brand new tales by Win Scott Eckert, Frank Dirscherl, Bobby Nash, and Bill Spangler, with corresponding spot illustrations and cover art by Rich Woodall. “Shadows Over Kunlun” by Win Scott Eckert: It’s early 1941: Lance and his Sky Rangers journey to San Francisco and Tibet in search of a long-lost Great War air ace, Le Faucon Rouge. But someone doesn’t want them to find Le Faucon…

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