Gaslight Grimoire: Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes is an anthology of short fiction combining the character of Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve...

 with elements of fantasy, horror, adventure and supernatural fiction.

It was published in October 2008 by EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing of Calgary

Calgary

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, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. The book was edited by J. R. Campbell and Charles Prepolec, with a foreword by David Stuart Davies. Cover art was by Timothy Lantz; the book features twelve full-page black and white illustrations by Phil Cornell.

The story "His Last Arrow" by Christopher Sequeira was nominated for a WSFA Small Press Award in 2009.

Followup volumes in the series include "Gaslight Grotesque: Nightmare Tales of Sherlock Holmes" (2010) and "Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes" (2010).

Stories

• "The Things That Shall Come Upon Them" by Barbara Roden
• "The Lost Boy" by Barbara Hambly
  Barbara Hambly
  Barbara Hambly is an award-winning and prolific American novelist and screenwriter within the genres of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and historical fiction...
  
  
• "His Last Arrow" by Christopher Sequeira (Chris G.C. Sequeira
  Chris G.C. Sequeira
  Christopher Sequeira is a Sydney-based Australian writer and artist who works predominantly in the speculative fiction realm, especially with the horror, science fiction and mystery genres...
  
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• "The Finishing Stroke" by M. J. Elliott
• "Sherlock Holmes in the Lost World" by Martin Powell
• "The Grantchester Grimoire" by Rick Kennett
  Rick Kennett
  Rick Kennett is an Australian writer of science fiction, horror and ghost stories. He is the most prolific and widely-published author in Australia after Paul Collins, Terry Dowling and Greg Egan, with stories in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies in Australia, the US and the UK.His first...
  
   & Chico Kidd (A. F. Kidd
  A. F. Kidd
  A.F. Kidd is the pen name of Chico Kidd. She is a fiction writer born in 1953 in Nottingham, England.Her first novel was The Printer's Devil. Her short stories have appeared in the collection Summoning Knells, published by Ash Tree Press in 2000. She collaborated with Australian writer Rick Kennett...
  
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• "The Strange Affair of the Steamship Friesland" by Peter Calamai
• "The Entwined" by J. R. Campbell
• "Merridew of Abominable Memory" by Chris Roberson (author)
  Chris Roberson (author)
  Chris Roberson is a science fiction author, tromboner, and publisher based in Austin, Texas, best known for alternate history novels and short stories.-Biography:Chris Roberson grew up near Dallas, Texas, and attended the University of Texas, Austin...
  
  
• "Red Sunset" by Bob Madison
• "The Red Planet League" by Kim Newman
  Kim Newman
  Kim Newman is an English journalist, film critic, and fiction writer. Recurring interests visible in his work include film history and horror fiction—both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning's Dracula at the age of eleven—and alternate fictional versions of history...