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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; E.W. Hornung's
gentleman thief A.J. Raffles; Jean Valjean from Victor Hugo's Les Misérables;
Turkish writer Nedim Gürsel's Son Tramway (His Tram); Oscar Venceslas de
Lubicz Milosz's Les Sept solitudes, poèmes (The Seven Solitudes, Poems);
Raymond Roussel's Locus Solus; Tristan Tzara's Grains et Issues
(Grains and Exits); José Muñoz Escamez's La Ciudad de los Suicidas (The
City of the Suicides); Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club;
Maurice LeBlanc's Lupin novel, L'Aiguille Creuse (The Hollow Needle);
Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain's Fantômas; Arnould Galopin's Le Docteur
Oméga - Aventures Fantastiques de Trois Français dans la Planète Mars (Dr.
Omega - Fantastic Adventures Of Three Frenchmen On Planet Mars); Dr. Ox from
Jules Verne's Une fantaisie du Docteur Ox (A Fantasy of Dr. Ox); P.S.
Ballanches' La Ville des expiations (The City of Expiations); Charles
Perrault's La Barbe Bleue (The Blue Beard); Mme Marie Leprince de
Beaumont's La Belle et La Bête (The Beauty and the Beast); Princess
Rosamond, or "Sleeping Beauty"; George MacDonald's The Wise
Woman, a Parable; Charles Perrault's Le Maître Chat ou Le Chat Botté
(The Master Cat or the Boot-Wearing Cat); Jorge Luis Borges' El Zahir;
the Physiologus Latinus; Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels;
Edgar Allan Poe's Shadow: A Parable; Aristophanes' The Birds;
Pliny the Elder's Inventorum Natura (Natural History); Jacopo
Sannazaro's Arcadia; Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto;
Stefan Andres' Die Reise nach Portiuncula (The Trip to Portiuncula);
Emilio Salgari's I naviganti della Meloria (The Seamen of Meloria);
Italo Calvino's Le città invisibili (The Invisible Town); Aucassin
et Nicolette (Aucassin and Nicolette); Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of
Pinocchio; Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose; Ann Radcliffe's The
Mysteries of Udolpho; Fiabe Italiane (Italian Fables); Johann
Heinrich Daniel Zschokke's Das Goldmacherdorf (The Village of the Gold
Maker); Ferdinand Raimund's Der Alpenkönig und der Menschenfeind (The
Mountain King and the Enemy Man); Max Jacob's Histoire du roi Kaboul Ier
et du marmiton Gauwain (The History of King Kaboul the 1st and the Marmiton
Gauwain); Leonard Wibberley's The Mouse that Roared; E.T.A.
Hoffmann's Der Goldene Topf (The Golden Pot); Thomas Bernhard's Frost;
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Sudden Light; Ludwig Tieck's Der
Runenberg; Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser; Aubrey Beardsley's Under
the Hill; Lia Wainstein's Viaggio in Drimonia; Tom Hood's Petsetilla's
Posy; Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death; Gregory Owen's Meccania,
the Super-State; Karl Immerman's Tulifäntchen, Ein Heldengedicht in drei
Gesängen; Donatien-Alphonse-François, Marquis de Sade's 120 Days of
Sodom; Le Dit de cocagne (The Sayings of Cocagne) and
Marc-Antoine Le Grand's Le Roi de Cocagne (The King of Cocagne); Johann Hans
Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen's Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus
Teutsch (The Adventurous Simplicissimus Teutsch); E.T.A. Hoffmann's The
Nutcracker and the King of the Mice and Alexandre Dumas (père)'s The
Nutcracker of Nuremberg, in Histoire d'une cassenoisette (History of a
Wardrobe); Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy: Titus Groan, Gormenghast,
and Titus Alone; Johann Paul Friedrich Richter's Leben des
vergnügten Schulmeisterlein Maria Wuz in Auenthal (Life of the Happy Schoolmarm
Maria Wuz in Auenthal); Jorge Luis Borges' Pierre Menard, Author of Don
Quixote; E.T.A. Hoffmann's Die Bergwerke zu Falun (The Mines of Falun);
Theodor Storm's Die Regentrude; Jean Ray's Le Manuscrit français
(The French Manuscript); Philippe-Auguste Comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam's
Axël: Charles Fourier's Théorie des Quatre Mouvements (Theory in
Four Movements); Georges Delbruck's Au pays de l'harmonie (The Country
of Harmony); Nicolas Edme Restif de la Bretonne's Les Gynographes;
Edgar Allan Poe's The Devil in the Belfry; Voyage Curieux d'un
Philadelphe dans des Pays nouvellement Découverts (The Strange Trip of a
Philadelphian in a Newly Discovered Country); Marie Anne de Roumier Robert's
Les Ondins; Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid; Paul
Alperine's La Citadelle des Glaces (The Fortress of Ice); F. Marcolini's
Dello scoprimento dell'Isole Frislanda, Eslandia, Engrovelanda, Estotilanda
e Icaria, fatto sotto il Polo Artico dai due fratelli Zeno; Tommaso
Porcacchi's Le isole piu' famose del mondo (The Most Famous Islands of the
World); Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth;
Richard Wagner's The Flying Dutchman; Baron Ludvig Holberg's Nicolai
Klimii Iter Subterraneum Novam Telluris Theoriam Ac Historiam Quintae
Monarchiae Adhuc Nobis Incognitae Exhibens E Bibliotheca B. Abelini; Henrik
Ibsen's Peer Gynt; Frigyes Karinthy's Capillaria; Cimmeria from
Robert E. Howard's Conan stories; Hans-Christian Andersen's Snedronningen
(The Snow Queen); Tove Jansson's Moomintroll books; Klopstokia from the 1932
film Million Dollar Legs; Alfred Jarry's trilogy of plays, King Ubu,
Cuckold Ubu and Slave Ubu; Bruno Schulz's Sanatorium pod
Klepsydra (The Sanatorium of Kelpsydra); Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince;
Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda; Lutha from Edgar Rice Burroughs' The
Mad King; Franz Kafka's Das Schloss (The Castle) and In der
Strafkolonie (In the Penal Settlement); Carl Maria, Freiherr von Weber, and
Johann Friedrich Kind's Der Freischütz (The Freeshooter); Sylvania and Freedonia from the Marx
Brothers' film Duck Soup; Paul Féval's La Ville Vampire (City of
Vampires); Jules Verne's Le Château des Carpathes (The Castle of the
Carpathians); James Thomson's The City of Dreadful Night; Countess
Elizabeth Bathory; the films Count Yorga, Vampire and The Return of
Count Yorga; Brigid Brophy's Palace Without Chairs. --- (current
through issue number two, with updates as time permits).
August 1898 MARS:
THE HOME FRONT
John Carter of
Mars relates to Edgar Rice Burroughs his involvement in defeating the Martian invasion
of Earth by the evil Sarmaks of Barsoom.
A short story
edited by G.A. Effinger, from a manuscript by Edgar Rice Burroughs, in the
anthology War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches,, Bantam, 1996,
Kevin J. Anderson, ed. Establishes that the invaders' Mars and Barsoom are one
and the same. Barsoom is located in an alternate universe to the Wold Newton
Universe (see The Second War of the Worlds, 1897). See also Alternate Universes.
August 1898
SOLDIER OF THE QUEEN
During the Martian
Invasion, Rudyard Kipling meets Mowgli; Kim; Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris;
and Gandhi.
A short story
edited by Barbara Hambly, from a manuscript by Rudyard Kipling, in the
anthology War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches, Bantam, 1996, Kevin J. Anderson, ed. The level of destruction and and the political results
arising therefrom are overstated in Kipling's account. Mowgli is from The Jungle Book. Kimball O'Hara
is from Kim. Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris are from Soldiers Three. Gandhi is
self-explanatory. For more on Mowgli, please read David Vincent Jr.'s Jungle Brothers, or, Secrets of the Jungle Lords.
August 1898
TO MARS AND PROVIDENCE
During the Martian
Invasion, eight-year-old Howard Phillips Lovecraft has an unusual experience
and discovers a connection between the Martian Sarmaks and the Elder Gods.
A short story
edited by Don Webb, from a manuscript by H.P. Lovecraft, in the anthology War
of the Worlds: Global Dispatches, Bantam, 1996, Kevin J. Anderson, ed.
August 1898 THE TRUE TALE OF THE FINAL BATTLE OF UMSLOPOGAAS THE ZULU
During the Martian
Invasion, Winston Churchill witnesses the Allan Quatermain's companion
Umslopogass battling Martians.
A short story
edited by Janet Berliner, from a manuscript by Winston Churchill, in the
anthology War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches, Bantam, 1996, Kevin J. Anderson,
ed. Churchill places these events from November 1899-April 1900, during the
Boer War, which began in October 1899. However, we believe that Churchill was
actually in Africa a year earlier, for reasons that he was unable to reveal.
Since he was not allowed to disclose his presence in Africa in August 1898, he
fictionalized the time-frame when he prepared this account. Umslopogaas is the
warrior featured in H. Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain. The explanation
for his appearance in 1898 so many years after his death is revealed in the
story.
November
24, 1898 - Birth of John "Korak" Drummond-Clayton.
His older brother is Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond. His great
grandmother is Oread Butler, a cousin of Rhett Butler (Gone With the Wind).
1899 - Dorothy
Gale makes her first trip to the alternate reality called Oz (L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz).
1899 - The events of A Portrait of
the Artist as Young Man by James Joyce. The artist, Stephen
Dedalus, will later meet Wold Newton Family member Leopold Bloom.
1899 - Doctor Julius
No, the grandson of Dr. James Noel, is born (click here for more
information).
1899 -
The events of Grant Allen’s The Child of the Phalanstery.
1899 John Cloamby, Lord Grandrith having recovered from the elixir and genetic
spawned madness finds himself gripped by a compulsion (implanted by the Nine)
to combat evil. Changing his name to Caliban he vows to raise his son to be
pure, fight evil and destroy the Nine. He is throughly manipulated by the Nine
all the way. See the Triple Tarzan Tangle
July 1, 1899 -
Birth of Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr.
1899-1900
- The events of The First Men in the Moon, as told by
H.G. Wells.An extremely fictionalized version of Dr. Cavor's
trip to the moon using Cavorite is published, written by Herbert George Wells,
a long time socialist and Eridanean associate. Cavor actually did manage to
build a space ship using a substance he discovered on what he took to be a
meteorite, actually a piece of one of the Mother ships. Because of the odd
design of his vessel, it did not trip the satellite system and so he passed by
without causing the satellites to self-destruct. However, he did land near one
of the Lunar Bases. The automated drones attempted to save his life, but his
unshielded craft had given him a fatal dose of radiation. As programmed, the
lunar automatons destroyed the lunar base.
1899 Charlie Marlow and Arronaxe Land move to California.
December 1899
FORT: PROPHET OF THE UNEXPLAINED
Charles Fort, with
the assistance of young H. P. Lovecraft, investigates a strange series of
disappearances in New York City. Governor Theodore Roosevelt also appears in
the story.
Comics mini-series by Peter M. Lenkov and Frazer Irving,
Dark Horse Comics, 2002. The story involves the Wold Newton Universe versions
of Fort, Lovecraft, and Roosevelt.
January 5, 1900 -
James W. Gordon is born. Concurrent with his position as Gotham City's youngest
ever Police Commissioner, he will work as the masked vigilante The Whisperer in
the 1930s (click here for more info).
1900 - Birth of Philip
Marlowe, son of Arronaxe Land and half-brother of Arronaxe Larsen
1900 Jake Mason has a
son, Buck Mason born in Comanche County, New Mexico
1900 Birth of Perry
Mason, son of Randolph Mason. Like his father Perry will become an attorney.
His exploits are recorded by Erle Stanley Gardner.
July 1900 -
Holmes and Watson briefly meet magician and escape artist Harry Houdini, who
evinces surprise that Holmes is alive, having thought him dead after the
incident at Reichenbach (The Pandora Plague).
Holmes dismisses Houdini's shock as a common occurrence among the public, as
Watson's account of The Empty House has not yet been released.
1900 SHERLOCK HOLMES ARRIVES TOO LATE
Holmes goes up against the elusive
master criminal
Arsène Lupin.
A short story by
Maurice Leblanc in the volume Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Cambrioleur, featuring the
first encounter between Holmes and Lupin. Lupin is also a Wold Newton family
member. Due to copyright issues, Leblanc was unable to secure permission to
write about Holmes. Consequently, the story was published under the title
Holmlock Shears Arrives Too Late. I have taken the liberty of restoring to the
Great Detective his proper name.
1901 THE SECOND WAR OF THE WORLDS
In this sequel to Wells' The War of the
Worlds, Holmes and Watson help fight against a second Martian invasion on the
planet Annwn, which is Earth's counterpart in a parallel
universe. It is revealed that the invasion of Earth two years ago did
indeed originate from a different universe, that in which Annwn is located.This
time, the Sarmaks of Barsoom (aka the Martian invaders) stick to their own
dimension. The Circle of Life cult, lead by the second ProfessorJames Moriarty,
collaborates with the Martians in this second invasion, based on the cult
members' belief that the Martian Sarmaks are completely superior and should be
the natural rulers of humanity.
This novel by George H. Smith was
published by DAW Books in 1976. The Island Snatchers, Smith's follow-up
Annwn novel sans Holmes, Watson, or Martians, was published by DAW in 1978.
Annwn resides in the same parallel universe in which Barsoom is located (see
Mars: The Home Front, 1898.) See also Alternate Universes.
1901 - Following
the Sarmaks' betrayal of the Circle of Life collaborators on Annwn, and the Circle's
decimation under the heat-rays of the invaders, any mention of
extra-terrestrial life, Martian or otherwise, becomes an embarrassment for the
second Professor James Moriarty. Although he ran the Circle of Life from a
distance, and was planning on using the Circle cult members and the events of
the Second Invasion with an eye towards eventually ruling Annwn himself,
Moriarty now realizes that he needs to distance himself from those events. He
taps the remaining infrastructure of the Circle of Life organization on Earth,
renames the group "Krafthaus," and assigns Krafthaus members what
seems a daunting task: the complete eradication of any substantial evidence of
the existence of extra-terrestrials. Moriarty's goal is that in fifty years, by
1947, no one on Earth will believe in alien life or that the War of the Worlds
really happened. (However, even Moriarty could not have
predicted the 1947 Roswell Incident and the resurgent interest in
extra-terrestrials.) Over the next several decades, and even beyond the
second Professor Moriarty's death, his organization mounts a massive
disinformation campaign, reducing the events of the Martian Invasion to mere
mythology. Overall, the second Professor Moriarty's plan is successful, and by
the latter half of the 20th Century, most people regard the events of The War
of the Worlds as mere fiction. Of course, throughout Earth's history there have
been countless extra-terrestrial contacts, such as the Eridaneans and the
Capelleans, an orphaned infant from the planet Krypton, and visitations as
described in the annals of the Cthulhu Mythos, Star Trek, and The X-Files.
However, all records and knowledge of those contacts remain secret,
unsubstantiated, or lost in the mists of ancient times. In the late 20th
Century, those who consider themselves to be rational and scientific, such as
Dr. Dana Scully, refuse to believe, without substantial scientific proof, that
alien life-forms have visited Earth. Thanks to the second Professor Moriarty's
efforts, as well as the post-1947 machinations of the Consortium (see The
X-Files), such proof no longer exists. Those who do continue to believe in
extra-terrestrials, such as Fox Mulder, are regarded as kooks and spooks
January, 1901 James Caliban born. A faction of the Nine begin
grooming him to be their candidate for living godhood, a new man for a new age,
a man of technology as opposed to a man of the jungle.
Although his life will bear certain parallels he was not Doc
Savage nor was his cousin, John Cloamby, Lord Grandrith, Tarzan.
Rather their lives were deliberately
shaped to resemble theirs, as much as the memories of the original Three would
allow. See Triple Tarzan Tangle
March-April 1901 -Sherlock Holmes
in New York
as told by Watson, D.R. Bensen, ed., in which the first
Professor Moriarty attempts to strike at Holmes through abducting his
nine-year-old son, Scott Adler (aka Marko Vuckic). The events surrounding
Holmes' relationship with Irene Adler in Montenegro in 1891 are also mentioned.
Curiously, there is no mention of Scott's twin brother, John Hamish Adler, the
man who would later be known as Nero Wolfe. There is also no mention of Scott
Adler's older half-sister, Irene Adler's daughter, Nina Vassilievna.
May 1901 - Clark
Savage, Sr., the illegitimate son of William Cecil Clayton, the sixth duke of
Greystoke, is implicated in the kidnapping of his younger half-brother, the
legitimate son of the sixth duke, as described by Watson and Doyle in the
Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Priory School.
After these events, Savage and his wife Arronaxe Larsen flee England; a
guilt-ridden Savage vows to dedicate his life and that of his unborn child to
fighting evil Click here for a brief
article on Doc Savage's father and the Greystoke lineage.
1901 -
Birth of Irma Peterson, daughter of Dr. Caber (click here for more
information).
1901 - Birth
of Simon Templar: The Saint. Charteris was never too
specific about Templar's origins, Templar follows in
the tradition of the helpful rogue category. Two possible men come to mind as
potential parents. Arsene Lupin or A. J. Raffles.
Although Templar is quite worldly, he seems to be quite British in upbringing
and attitude. I surmised that A.J. Raffles, while serving during the Boer War,
fell in love with a woman English Colonist in South Africa. It is possible that
they meant to wed but he was killed in action. Being a woman of some
importance, possibly the daughter or widow of a diamond mine owner,she went to England and gave the child up for adoption.
However after a few years had gone by, she had a change of heart and tracked
the child down and adopted him. He never forgot his first years of poverty and
so even after becoming wealthy and well educated, he
was a champion of the underdog. Especially after his mother
revealed his true origins on her death bed.
November 12, 1901
- Clark "Doc" Savage, Jr., is born on the schooner
Orion in a cove off the northern tip of Andros Island, Bahamas. Doc's parents
are Clark Savage, Sr. and Arronaxe Larsen. Doc's maternal grandparents are Wolf
Larsen (The Sea Wolf) and Arronaxe Land, who is the daughter of Ned Land
(20,000 Leagues Under the Sea). As part of his
training to combat crime and evil, Clark, over the years, will study various
disciplines with Sherlock Holmes, Arsène Lupin, Richard Wentworth, Dr. John
Thorndyke, Craig Kennedy, Kent Allard, and Tarzan.
December 24, 1901 THE ADVENTURE OF
THE THREE GHOSTS
Sherlock Holmes
assists Timothy Cratchit, Lord Chislehurst, in discovering the source of ghostly
nighttime visitations.
A short story by
Loren D. Estleman, which is sequel to Charles Dickens' A
Christmas Carol, in Holmes for the Holidays, Greenberg, Lellenberg, &
Waugh, eds., Berkley Books, 1996. There are two other Holmes / Christmas Carol
sequels: The Adventure of the Christmas Ghosts, by Bill Crider,
in Holmes for the Holidays, and The Case of the
Rajah's Emerald, by Carolyn Wheat, in More Holmes for the Holidays. Each could be a
valid crossover and sequel to Dickens' tale, but for the fact that each reveals
a different fate for "Tiny Tim" Cratchit. The
Adventure of the Three Ghosts was Win Eckert's favorite.
March-April 1902
ARSÈNE
LUPIN VERSUS SHERLOCK HOLMES
Lupin and Holmes
again work on opposite sides of the law.
The true title of
this novel is Arsène Lupin Versus Herlock Sholmes, as Maurice
Leblanc was unable to write about Sherlock Holmes.
1902 -
Birth of Lawrence Stewart Talbot, the Wolf Man (click here for more
information).
1902 -
The main events of Ayesha: The Return of She, as
told by Ludwig Horace Holly (edited by H. Rider Haggard), in which Leo Vincey
is reunited with Ayesha
August 1902 SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CLOWN PRINCE OF LONDON
Holmes enlists
Arsène Lupin to perform a bit of thievery for a just cause.
Comic
story by Joe Gentile and Gulick, Moonstone Comics, 2001.
1902 It was this year that Fu Manchu was crippled, possibly by an elephant, at
the Empress' pleasure.
His Si Fan
agents smuggled him out of China, through Vietnam and then to Paris. Learning
that they could not repair his twisted spine, Fu Manchu took a name that mocked
his origins. He took back his birth name of Shan but added Hanoi to it, thus
always bitterly reminding him of his lowly origins.
Late September
1902 THE PANDORA
PLAGUE
Holmes and Harry
Houdini are involved in the evil machinations of a hideously sinister plot. Dr.
Thorndyke makes a cameo appearance, as does Monsieur Dubuque of the Paris
police.
This account was
written by Dr. Watson and edited by Lee A. Matthias, Leisure Books, 1981.
Thorndyke's cases were written by R. Austin Freeman. Dubuque and Holmes also
met during the cases of The Second Stain and The Boulevard
Assassin.
December 24,
1902-Early 1903 NIGHT WATCH
Sherlock Holmes investigates
a murder at a secret ecumenical conference in London. A young Father Brown also
becomes involved in the case. It is also stated that Father Brown went on to
visit Holmes many times thereafter.
Novel
by Stephen Kendrick, from a manuscript by John H. Watson, Pantheon Books, 2001. This book gives
Father Brown's first name as "Paul" whereas in his 1967 appearance in
The Rainbow Affair, he is named "John."
Perhaps his full name is John Paul Brown.
December 17, 1903 Birth
of the Luthor quadruplets (See The Lethal Luthors)
1903 - The second
Professor Moriarty quietly establishes a new identity for himself, that of
Andrew Lumley, a respected philanthropist. (see
Buchan's The Power-House).
1903 - Professor
Challenger's and Lord John Roxton's expedition to The Lost World,
as related by Edward Malone (edited by Arthur Conan Doyle).Canonical books in
the series are: The Poison Belt, The Land of Mist, The Disintegration Machine, and When the World Screamed. Professor
Challenger's adventures continued in Professor Challenger in Space
(edited by S.W. Theaker) and several other crossovers listed on this
Chronology.
1903-1913
- David Innes and Abner Perry make the trip to Pellucidar and the rest of the
events of E.R. Burroughs'At the Earth's Core follow.
July 1903 SÉANCE FOR A
VAMPIRE
Novel by Fred Saberhagen, Tor Books, 1994
Holmes and Watson
again work with Vlad Dracula.
in which which Holmes, Watson and Dracula travel to
Russia to track down a murdering Russian Vampire. They have a brief encounter
with Rasputin, possibly this sets the stage for the events of Rasputin's
Revenge
Inspector
Merrivale and Rasputin also appear. Vlad ruminates upon Rasputin, "But I
believe I smiled, because the Russian word rasputin
carries strong connotations of sexual debauchery; rather as if an Englishman or
American were to introduce himself as Gregory Porno, or Ephraim Smut."
This is not the
"real" Count Dracula, whom Holmes and Watson encountered in 1890. (see Watson's The Adventure of the Sanguinary Count, 1890).
For a full explanation of Vlad and his relationship to the true Count, see 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.
Inspector
Merrivale would go on to be known as Sir Henry Merrivale, whose cases were chronicled by Carter
Dickson (aka John Dickson Carr). Rasputin, as revealed in Rasputin's Revenge,
1916-1917, is the son of the first Professor James Moriarty. From Vlad's
ruminations, on page 288, we may also postulate that Ephraim Tutt is a real
person in the Newtonverse, that Vlad has encountered or heard of him, and that
Vlad, here, is playing upon his name. Writer Arthur Train featured lawyer
Ephraim Tutt in more than eighty short stories, most of them published in the
Saturday Evening Post between 1919 and 1945.
Late November 1903 THE SINGULAR CASE OF THE ANEMIC HEIR
Count Dracula
attempts to exact revenge upon Sherlock Holmes, but Holmes outwits him, at
least for the time being.
Comic story by Will Richardson, Kevin Duane, and Anton
Caravana, in The Rook number 10, Warren Publishing, August 1981.
1904
- Robur returns in Verne's Master of the World.
June 15,
1904 ULYSSES
Wold Newton Family member Leopold
Bloom encounters artist Stephen Dedalus.
Novel by James
Joyce. Click here for more information.
1904 -
Birth of Yitzik Baline (aka Rick Blaine) in New York City (click here for more info)..
1904 -
Miss Mina Murray visits a master detective turned bee-keeper in Fulworth,
Sussex, as related by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill in The
New Traveller's Almanac, Chapter One: The British Isles in The League of
Extraordinary Gentlemen II.
1905 - George Bernard
Shaw's Pygmalion, aka My Fair Lady (click
here for more info).
1905 -
The events of Ayesha: The Return of She,
as told by Ludwig Horace Holly (edited by H. Rider Haggard), in which Leo
Vincey is reunited with Ayesha.
June 1905 OUR AMERICAN
COUSINS
Holmes takes a
case for Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Short
story by Roberta Rogow in The Game is Afoot, Marvin Kaye,
editor, 1995. Holmes once worked with the Roosevelts' relative, Theodore
Roosevelt, in 1880. Young Indiana Jones met Theodore Roosevelt in 1909.
1906
R.
HOLMES & CO. In this collection of short stories
following the exploits of Raffles Holmes, it is revealed that Sherlock Holmes
had a son with the daughter of notorious thief A.J.Raffles. Apparently Holmes
got around a lot for a man who professed to dislike the company of women. Stories by John Kendrick Bangs, Otto Penzler Books, 1906.
The original Raffles stories by E.W. Hornung can be found in The Collected
Raffles Stories, Oxford University Press, 1996. .
This story claims that Raffles Holmes' mother was A.J.'s daughter, but it can
be demonstrated that she was, in fact, A.J.'s sister. Click here for more information.
1906 -
The first recorded case of the vigilante group The Four Just
Men, as revealed by Edgar Wallace (although, with the death of
one of the members in 1902, there are now only Three Just Men).
1906 SHERLOCK HOLMES IN
OZ
Holmes and Watson are
transported to Oz by magic in order to solve a mystery there.
In this short
story by Ruth Berman, it is clearly stated that Oz is an alternate universe to
the reality from which Holmes has come and that he may stay as long as he
likes, because he can be returned to his reality (The Wold Newton Universe) at
exactly the same time that he left. (See also Alternate Universes.) Story found
in the collection The Game is Afoot, Marvin Kaye, editor, 1994. Date is
conjecture, but must take place after Doyle's Holmes adventure, The Blue
Carbuncle, in 1887.
1906 - Britt Reid, son of Dan Reid, Jr., and
great nephew of The Lone Ranger, is born. He will become the first Green
Hornet.
Autumn 1906 -
Fu Manchu (aka Hanoi Shan) sets up criminal operations in Paris, as related in
two short stories, The Suicide Room and The Scented Death, found in H.
Ashton-Wolfe's Warped in the Making: Crimes of Love and Hate.
1906 Hanoi Shan began a
murderous crime spree but suddenly ceased as
abruptly has he had begun. (I wonder if the archcriminal
Fantomas who began to terrorize Paris in 1911 was one of Hanoi Shan's Parisian
operatives or if he filled the vacuum in the Parisian underworld?) We
can only imagine that he had discovered a method of restoring his twisted
spine. I speculate it was then that Fu Manchu either discovered the formula or
created the formula for the Oil of Life. I can envision Fu Manchu directing the
operation that straightened his back, conscious and kept alive with massive
infusions of the Oil of Life. Or knowing that he would be a great ally if not a
loyal member, the Capelleans offered to repair his back and to give him the
longevity serum. Even with the nanites helping his recupurative powers, Fu
Manchu spent the next several years recovering from the operation and building
his Si Fan into a world wide organization. He also located and indoctrinated
his daughter to his cause, seducing her with a promise of the Oil of Life.
October 1906 THE EARTHQUAKE
MACHINE Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes, Dr. Watson, Professor
Moriarty, Colonel Moran, Winston Churchill, Czar Nicholas, & Rasputin are
all featured in this novel. Nina Vassilievna, the daughter of Irene Adler and
the King of Bohemia, is introduced. Holmes fakes his permanent retirement to
Sussex. Deaths of Colonel Sebastian Moran and the first
Professor James Moriarty.
Written by Austin
Mitchelson and Nicholas Utechin, Belmont Tower Books, 1976. Nina Vassilievna
is the half-sister of Nero Wolfe and Marko Vuckic. Rasputin, as revealed in Son
of Holmes, is the son of the first Professor Moriarty. When in Sussex, Holmes
works on scientific research designed to protect humanity in the event of
another Martian Invasion (see The Case of the Missing Martian).
February 19, 1907 -
Birth of science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout. Some biographical details of
Trout's life have been furnished by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., in God Bless You, Mr.
Rosewater, Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of
Champions, and others. Trout is the grandson of Johnny Shawnessy
(Raintree County) and is also a distant descendant of both Natty Bumppo (The
Leatherstocking Tales) and Ebenezer Cooke (The Sot Weed Factor).
1907 - Solar Pons opens
his private inquiry practice at 7B Praed Street in London.
1907 - Dr.
John Thorndyke's first case, The Red Thumb Mark,
as told by R. Austin Freeman.
1907 DOCTOR WATSON AND THE INVISIBLE MAN
With Holmes out of London, Watson
takes a case on his own, assisting friend Langdale Pike to avoid a murder
charge. They investigate the true circumstances of how the Invisible Man (John
Hawley Griffin) achieved his feat of invisibility, and their inquiry takes them
down the path of the occult. In the course of their search, they meet Arthur
Machen and Aleister Crowley, and at one point turn to Mycroft Holmes for
assistance. Sherlock Holmes appears at the conclusion of the case, and it is
revealed that while he does own property in Sussex, he has not yet been able to
bring himself to retire from his rooms in Baker Street.
Novel by Noel
Downing, Ian Henry Publications, 1991. Griffin does not appear in this
adventure, and the question is never raised that he might still be alive,
although Mycroft, who knows otherwise (see The League of
Extraordinary Gentlemen, 1898), must have had a bad moment when Watson turned to
him for assistance. Supernatural writer Arthur Machen (1863-1947) also appeared
in Seven Stars Episode One: The Mummy's Heart (1897). For more
information on the Griffins, please read Dennis Power's article, The Invisibles.
1907 SHERLOCK HOLMES
ARRIVES TOO LATE Holmes
goes up against the elusive master criminal Arsène Lupin.
A
short story by Maurice Leblanc in the volume Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Cambrioleur, featuring the
first encounter between Holmes and Lupin. Lupin is also a Wold Newton family
member. Due to copyright issues, Leblanc was unable to secure permission to
write about Holmes. Consequently, the story was published under the title Holmlock Shears
Arrives Too Late. I have taken the liberty of restoring to the Great
Detective his proper name.
1908 The all but destroyed Capellean Mother ship's final impulse engine
finally fails sending it into an orbit that will impact on Earth. Prior to the
final approach Capellean Mother ship's main computer
launches all of the remaining stasis chambers filled with the remnants of
Juro's experiments. Launching them into a higher orbit.
Depending on their orbital path, the pods fall at infrequent intervals, landing
years and great distances from each other. When the pods do open, they usually
wreck havoc. A slew of them fell and opened up during the fifties, many of
these incidents were recorded as space monster movies or giant insect movies The remnants of the Mother ship landed in the Tuguska
province of Siberia, causing what amounted to a nuclear explosion.
1908 -
The first recorded adventure of Captain Mors, der Luftpirat, The Ruler of the Ocean of the Air.
May 1908 THE CASE OF THE
MISSING MARTIAN
The final episode
of the Holmes/Martian invasion trilogy. Professor Challenger and Mycroft
Holmes are featured and Sigmund Freud is mentioned as an acquaintance of
Holmes. Death of the second Professor Moriarty?
A Sherlock Holmes comics
mini-series published by Eternity Comics. The three episodes chronicling Holmes'
battles against the Martians establish that Wells' The War of the Worlds is
part of the Wold Newton Universe. Of course, Holmes supposedly met Freud in
Nicholas Meyer's popular novel, The Seven Per-Cent Solution. However, that
novel was based on a false manuscript, probably a hoax perpetrated by the
second Professor Moriarty the events must be regarded as apocryphal, since the
novel in essence discounts Moriarty as an evil genius and adversary for Holmes.
The second Professor Moriarty's motive for stealing the last remaining Martian
war machine from the British Museum appears to be merely the accumulation of
power. However, his true motive, not revealed in the story, was his continuing
fanatical crusade to obliterate of all evidence pertaining to extra-terrestrial
life, a crusade he began after The Second War of the Worlds, 1897.
May 28, 1908 -
Ernst Stavro Blofeld, son of "Wolf Larsen"/"Karl von
Hessel," is born in Gdynia (click
here for more
information).
May 1908 YOUNG INDIANA JONES
AND THE CURSE OF THE JACKAL
Young Indy meets
Lawrence of Arabia. Episode of The Young Indiana Jones
Chronicles. Duncan MacLeod met Lawrence of Arabia in 1916.
1908
- Publication of Campion Bond's Memoirs of an English Intelligenser.
Summer 1908 THE ADVENTURE OF
THE NOTORIOUS CANARY TRAINER
Holmes refers to
his colleague Dr. John Thorndyke and mentions that they worked together the
previous year on the Red Thumb Mark case.
Short story in The
Lost Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, adapted by Ken Greenwald from the Sherlock
Holmes radio scripts of Anthony Boucher and Dennis Green, Mallard Press, 1989. Confirms the presence of Dr. Thorndyke in the Newtonverse.
This case is not to be confused with a case of similar name, The Canary
Trainer, which took place in 1891.
1908 MAN OF MEDICINE, DOCTOR OF DESPAIR
Holmes again
crosses swords with the notorious Arsène Lupin.
A short comics story by Joe Gentile in the volume of Sherlock Holmes
stories called Soul of the Dragon, Northstar Press, 1995.
1908 THE HOLLOW NEEDLE
Novel by Maurice Leblanc.
Lupin's wife, Raymonde de
Saint-Veran, is accidentally killed during his battle with Sherlock Holmes.
September 1908 PARIS, SEPTEMBER
Young Indiana
Jones meets Pablo Picasso. Episode of The Young
Indiana Jones Chronicles. Tarzan met Picasso in 1909.
November 1908 VIENNA, NOVEMBER
1908
Indiana Jones meets Sigmund Freud.
Episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. Sherlock Holmes met
Freud in this year also.
January 1909
- Gaston Max, an investigator with uncanny abilities at disguise and mimicry,
solves his first case in The Yellow Claw,
as told by Sax Rohmer.
May 1909
- Death of Prince Dakkar, also known as the first Captain Nemo. (As told by
Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill in The New
Traveller's Almanac, Chapter Three: The Americas in The League of
Extraordinary Gentlemen II.)
1909 - Birth
of Richard Henry Benson, great nephew of Phileas Fogg (Around the World in
Eighty Days, The Other Log of Phileas Fogg).
Benson will become The Avenger and found Justice, Inc., in the late 1930s.
1909 -
Birth of teen-detective Frank Hardy.
1909
THE ROOK: MASTER OF THE WORLD
The
Rook (Restin Dane), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, William Sydney Porter
(O. Henry), the Cisco Kid, "Poncho" Hernandez, and Sherlock Holmes
versus Robur the Conqueror.
Issues
4-6 of Warren Publishing's The Rook, August-December 1980, by Budd Lewis and
Lee Elias. Time traveling Restin Dane is the grandson of H.G. Wells' The Time
Traveler (known variously as Bruce Clarke Wildman or Adam Dane). This is
discussed in more detail in a 1977 entry for The Rook on this Chronology.
Dane's "home-base" time period is from 1977-1983.
This crossover
brings the Cisco Kid and Poncho into the Wold Newton Universe, although
"Poncho" is more normally spelled "Pancho." Jules Verne, in
our universe, died in 1905. However, this is the Wold Newton Universe version
of Verne. The villain in this story is called "Robar," but is clearly
Robur, of Verne's two novels Robur the Conqueror (aka Clipper of the Clouds)
and Master of the World. This story takes place in several different time
frames, but the main time frame is supposedly a few months after the Tunguska explosion in Siberia in the summer of 1908.
However, it would have take Robur longer than that to gather his new army and
build his new ship, so I have placed this story a year later, in 1909.
Regarding Robur, he claims to be a refugee from an alien space war. It is more
likely that this is the same Robur seen in Verne's tales, experimenting with space
flight, and that his ship crashed in Siberia.
The Tunguska incident on June 30, 1908, seems to be a
focal point in the Wold Newton Universe. A young Clark Savage was involved in
the event (see The Asteroid Terror on The Doc Savage Chronology), which had
later repercussions as detailed in several episodes of The X-Files. According to the latest Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu mini-series
(2002), Nikola Tesla, in his quest for a new energy source, was responsible for
the Tunguska explosion.
1909 - The
events of Tarzan of the Apes.
1909 - Howards End, as recounted by
E.M. Forster.
August 1909 LE MONSTRE Tarzan
meets Pablo Picasso in Paris.
Indy met Picasso
as a child and again as a young adult in May 1917 (The Young Indiana Jones
Chronicles). Tarzan met the artist while he was in Paris during the events of
Tarzan of the Apes in a story published by Dark Horse Comics, Tarzan numbers 11
and 12. Consequently, Indy exists in the same universe as Tarzan. These events
appear to be a sort of "copycat" case, mirroring the 1891 events of
The Phantom of the Opera/The Canary Trainer.
September 13-18,
1909 THE
MODERN PROMETHEUS
While Tarzan is in
New York, he meets John Watson's editor, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Nikola Tesla;
Thomas Edison; and Frankenstein's monster.
This story also
occurs during the events of Tarzan of the Apes and is published by Dark Horse
Comics, Tarzan numbers 13 and 14. Indiana Jones would later also meet Conan
Doyle and Thomas Edison.The monster is the first Creature, from Mary Shelley's
novel Frankenstein, as opposed to later Monsters, such as that seen in the the
Universal film versions. For more on Frankenstein in the Newtonverse, click here and read Wold Newton scholar Mark
Brown's article
September 1909 TOOTH AND NAIL
Tarzan is still in
New York, where he encounters Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde.
Again, this story occurs during the
events of Tarzan of the Apes and is published by Dark Horse Comics, Tarzan
numbers 15 and 16. Sherlock Holmes and John Watson went up against the good
doctor and his nasty counterpart in 1885.
To see what
happens to Dr. Jekyll immediately following this visit the Wold Newton fiction
piece Lost in the Realms of Madness.
September 1909 BRITISH EAST
AFRICA, SEPTEMBER 1909
Indiana Jones meets Theodore
Roosevelt.
According to the television program The Young Indiana
Jones Chronicles, Indy met Roosevelt. Since Sherlock Holmes knew Roosevelt,
Indiana Jones must be a part of the Wold Newton Universe.
November 1909 –September 1910 THE RETURN OFTARZAN
Tarzan's first visit to Opar.
This novel records
Tarzan's early adventures in Opar and was written by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It
relates back to Hadon's adventures in Opar 12,000 years ago. Date is derived
from Farmer's chronology in Tarzan Alive.
January 1910 IMPRISONED WITH THE PHARAOHS
While in Egypt,
master illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini has an adventure with
Lovecraftian overtones.
Short
story by H.P. Lovecraft and Harry Houdini, Weird Tales, May 1924; The
Transition of H.P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness, Del Rey, 1996. Houdini
later worked with both Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle.
1910 - Tom
Swift's first adventure, Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle.
Tom is the son of inventor and former U.S. Secret Service agent
Barton Swift.
1910 - Birth of
teen-detective Joe Hardy.
April 1910THE ADVENTURE OF
THE ECTOPLASMIC MAN
Sherlock Holmes and Harry Houdini
solve a case together.
Novel by Daniel
Stashower, Penguin Books, 1986. Although this case takes place after
The Pandora Plague, Watson probably wrote it up first;
thus his assertion that this was the first meeting of Holmes and Houdini.
Houdini also had a Lovecraftian adventure,Imprisoned
with the Pharaohs. He met Holmes again in 1922, as well as working with
Watson's editor, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, on several cases.
September 1910 -Tarzan
and Jane get married.
1910 - The events of
John Buchan's The Power House,
wherein British politician Edward Leithen exposes the treacherous activities of
Andrew Lumley (aka the second Professor Moriarty, who evidently did not die at
the conclusion of The Case of the Missing Martian) and the Krafthaus
organization. Lumley-Moriarty dies at the conclusion of this affair, and
Krafthaus begins its evolution into the criminal network/"secret
nation" known as THRUSH.
1910 813
The final
chronicled encounter between Arsène Lupin and Sherlock Holmes.
Novel by Maurice Leblanc.
1910 - The Egyptian
mummy Kharis is revived and wreaks havoc, as told in the film The Mummy's
Hand. Sequels are The Mummy's Tomb, The Mummy's Ghost, and The
Mummy's Curse.
1910 - The events of
John Buchan's The Power-House, wherein British
politician Edward Leithen exposes the treacherous activities of Andrew Lumley
(aka the second Professor Moriarty, who evidently did not die at the conclusion
of The Case of the Missing Martian) and the Krafthaus organization.
Lumley-Moriarty dies at the conclusion of this affair, and Krafthaus begins its
evolution into the criminal network/"secret nation" known as THRUSH.
REVISED WOLD NEWTON CHRONOLOGY
Prehistory-858, 858-1799,
1800-1849,
1850-1890 1891-1910, 1911-1920,
1921-1930, 1931-1940, 1941-1970,
1971-Future.
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© 1997-2002 by the
author, Win Eckert.
Additions
in brown text© 2000-2002 by Dennis E. Power