About the Book
Thirteen authors, including Gail Z. Martin, David Gerrold, and Jonathan Maberry, come together to pen short stories innovating Sherlock Holmes, adapting and revolutionizing the iconic character. Sherlock Holmes is one of the most iconic and lasting figures in literature. His feats of detection are legendary, and he continues to capture audiences today in stories, movies, and on TV. In this new anthology, BAKER STREET IRREGULARS, authors present the celebrated detective in more than a dozen different, wildly entertaining new ways. In Ryk Spoor's thrilling "The Adventures of a Reluctant Detective," Sherlock is a re-creation in a holodeck. In Hildy Silverman's mesmerizing "A Scandal in the Bloodline," Sherlock is a vampire. Heidi McLaughlin sends Sherlock back to college, while Beth Patterson, in the charming "Code Cracker," turns him into a parrot. The settings are as varied as Russia in the near-future, a dystopian world, a reality show, and an orchestra. Without losing the very qualities that make Sherlock so illustrious a character, these authors spin new webs of mystery around their own singular riff on one of literature's truly singular characters.
About the Author :
Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times bestselling author, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, four-time Scribe Award winner, Inkpot Award winner, and comic book writer. His vampire apocalypse book series, V-Wars, became a Netflix original series. He writes horror, science fiction, epic fantasy, thrillers, and more. He is the president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers and the editor of Weird Tales magazine.
Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times bestselling author, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, four-time Scribe Award winner, Inkpot Award winner, and comic book writer. His vampire apocalypse book series, V-Wars, became a Netflix original series. He writes horror, science fiction, epic fantasy, thrillers, and more. He is the president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers and the editor of Weird Tales magazine.
Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times bestselling author, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, four-time Scribe Award winner, Inkpot Award winner, and comic book writer. His vampire apocalypse book series, V-Wars, became a Netflix original series. He writes horror, science fiction, epic fantasy, thrillers, and more. He is the president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers and the editor of Weird Tales magazine.
Keith R.A. DeCandido (www.DeCandido.net) is the USA Today and Locus bestselling author of more than sixty novels, more than one hundred works of short fiction, more than seventy comic books, and more nonfiction than he's comfortable counting. His work in the media tie-in field has earned him a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers and covered more than thirty different licensed universes, including TV shows (Star Trek: The Klingon Art of War, Supernatural: Nevermore), movies (Alien: Isolation, Cars: Rust Bucket Derby), games (Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness--The Beginning, World of Warcraft: Cycle of Hatred), comic books (Spider-Man: Down These Mean Streets, Thor: Dueling with Giants), and literary characters (Sherlock Holmes: Cases by Candlelight, Joe Ledger: Unstoppable). In addition, Keith has written extensively in worlds of his own creation, including other fantastical police procedurals in the fictional locales of Cliff's End (Dragon Precinct and its sequels, the latest of which is Phoenix Precinct) and Super City (a novel and several shorter works featuring the Super City Police Department) and urban fantasy in New York City (the Adventures of Bram Gold, including A Furnace Sealed and Feat of Clay) and Key West (two short-story collections starring Cassie Zukav, weirdness magnet). He also writes about pop culture for a variety of places, most prolifically on the awardwinning web site Reactor Magazine (formerly Tor.com). A veteran editor and anthologist, Keith recently co-edited Double Trouble: An Anthology of Two-Fisted Team-Ups (with Jonathan Maberry) and The Four of the Apocalypse (with Wrenn Simms). Keith is also a professional musician (currently with the parody band, Boogie Knights), a dedicated New York Yankee fan (he sometimes does editorial work for the Society of American Baseball Research), and a fourth-degree black belt in karate (he not only trains, but regularly teaches children and adults). He lives in the Bronx with his wife and two unusually friendly black cats.
Jody Lynn Nye is a New York Times bestselling science fiction and fantasy author who collaborated on seven Myth-Adventures books and an anthology with Robert Asprin and now writes both the Myth-Adventures and Dragons Wild series, including Robert Asprin's Dragons Run. Ryk E. Spoor, while earning his masters degree in Pittsburgh, became a playtesting consultant and writer for the Wizards of the Coast, the leading publisher of role-playing games and related novels. He now lives in East Greenbush, New York, working as a technical proposal writer for a high-tech R&D firm, and spending his non-writer time with his wife and sons. Spoor is the coauthor with New York Times bestselling author Eric Flint, of the popular Threshold series of science fiction novels. Spoor's solo novels for Baen include Paradigms Lost, Grand Central Arena, and Spheres of Influence. He is also the author of epic fantasy Phoenix Rising. David Gerrold is the author of the Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated The Man Who Folded Himself, When Harlie Was One, and the Chtorr, Dingillian, and Star Wolf series. He also wrote "The Trouble with Tribbles" episode of Star Trek, which was voted the most popular Star Trek episode of all time. He lives in Northridge, California.
Heidi McLaughlin is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of The Beaumont Series, The Boys of Summer, and The Archers. Her first novel, Forever My Girl, has been adapted into a 2018 motion picture with LD Entertainment and Roadside Attractions, starring Alex Roe and Jessica Rothe, and is now available on DVD and digital. For more, visit www.facebook.com/authorheidimclaughlin or heidimclaughlin.com
Gail Z. Martin is the author of the Ascendant Kingdoms Saga, the Chronicles of the Necromancer series, and the Fallen Kings Cycle. She discovered her passion for science fiction and fantasy in elementary school. The first story she wrote, at age five, was about a vampire. Her favorite TV show as a preschooler was Dark Shadows. At age fourteen she decided to become a writer. She enjoys attending sf-fantasy conventions, Renaissance fairs, and living history sites.
Nightfire is the new horror imprint from Tor. For more information visit www.tornightfire.com. Steven Crossley, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, has built a career on both sides of the Atlantic as an actor and audiobook narrator, for which he has won more than a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards and been a nominee for the prestigious Audie Award. He is a member of the internationally renowned theater company Complicite and has appeared in numerous theater, television, film, and radio dramas.
Saskia Maarleveld is an experienced voice-over actress and Earphones Award-winning narrator. Raised in New Zealand and France, she is highly skilled with accents and dialects, and many of her books have been narrated entirely in accents other than her own. In addition to audiobooks, her voice can be heard in animation, video games, and commercials.
Graham Halstead, an Earphones Award and Audie Award-winning narrator, is a professionally trained actor and voice artist. As an actor, he has worked internationally in Edinburgh and London, as well as at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. His youthful, easy-flowing voice can be heard on television and radio voicing spots for Airborne and Allegra.
