Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Crown by Daniel McGachey

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Sherlock Holmes:  The Devil's Crown by Daniel McGachey

A brand new original Sherlock Holmes horror novel written by Daniel McGachey!

Front cover artwork by K. L. Turner

Signed and lettered deluxe hardcover edition with slipcase!

A DAZZLING CROWN!

A DIABOLICAL CURSE! 

A DEADLY CASE FOR SHERLOCK HOLMES!

Why is a grieving young woman targeted by those who seek to hear her father’s final words revealed? Who is the grim, black-veiled Contessa? Can a war-wounded physician find love? Or is horror the only true solution?

Dr. John Watson chronicles a most extraordinary adventure: one that encompasses a bewitched—and bewitching—travelling companion, an enigmatic noblewoman, and a doomed ship carrying a lethal cargo! Eerie visitants summoned during smoke-shrouded séances, a cabal of eccentric scholars seeking a fabled treasure of immense value—yet with a deadly cost, a love affair shaped amidst swirling shadows of intrigue, mystery and murder, monstrous idols of inhuman deities lurking in darkest depths, a cult of faceless assassins, an ancient malediction that brings madness and death to any who fall under its power: all must figure in a series of astounding deductions made by Sherlock Holmes, as the master detective pits his formidable wits against the horrors lurking in wait for any who dare trace ‘the circle of blood’.

From 221B Baker Street to the East End of London, from a crumbling priory to a loathsome insane asylum: the game is afoot upon the Devil’s Crown’s twisting and blood-soaked trail!

Certain adventures of the great consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, have been withheld from the public gaze by Doctor Watson because the details are too scandalous, too personal—or so uncanny that their solutions skirt the borders of the shadowy realm of the supernatural.

“It was as part of this small collection of never-to-be-told tales that I had always sworn this current narrative belonged. But while I, so many years on, remain haunted by the cruel horror of the events—a horror which stretches back over several blood-soaked centuries-—I could not happily live out whatever years I have remaining to me knowing that the full account of this most incredible adventure might one day die with me, thus denying the world the knowledge of how the singular skills of one man brought to a close the bloody tangle of events surrounding the cursed Corona del Diavolo—the Devil’s Crown!”

EDITIONS

Deluxe Signed & Lettered Hardcover Edition with Slipcase

• Signed by the Author and Artist
  
• Hand-Lettered A to Z
  
• Full color front cover artwork by K. L. Turner
  
• Front Cover and Spine Stampings
  
• Limited to 26 signed and lettered hardcover editions
  
• Slipcase: Yes!

PRAISE FOR THE DEVIL'S CROWN

“… enjoyable, spooky, more individual than the jaded reader of such things might perhaps expect …”
— Rosemary Pardoe, The Ghosts & Scholars M.R. James Newsletter, on They That Dwell in Dark Places

“McGachey writes with conviction, his characterisation and tone both spot on…”
— Peter Tennant, Black Static: Case Notes Blog, on They That Dwell in Dark Places

“Daniel McGachey deserves praise for honoring Holmes and respecting Watson’s writing.”
— Sheila Merritt, Hellnotes, on Sherlock Holmes: The Impossible Cases

“… they are every inch Doyle’s characters.… a very impressive piece of writing throughout. Atmospheric, intriguing, suspenseful, and always wonderfully authentic. Every page is a pleasure.”
— Michael Galley, author of Dracula, Frankenstein and Friends on Sherlock Holmes: The Impossible Cases

“McGachey has an enviable imagination, and has come up with some very interesting variations on the antiquarian ghost story.”
— David Longhorn, Supernatural Tales Blog, on By No Mortal Hand