Topic: Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula

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Also known as Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sanguinary Count

No better place to post this.

A long time ago, I stumbled across this book in my house, and thought the prospect sounded awesome. So i read it, and it sure as hell was.

Here's the description off the boom itself.

The year is 1890. A ship is discovered adrift off the English coast, its crew missing, its murdered captain lashed to the wheel, and its only passanger is a sinister black dog. This impenetrable mystery is clearly a case for the inimitable Sherlock Holmes, but for the first time in his illustrious career the great detective is baffled.

Clearly the crew have been murdered and dumped overboard, but what can account for the captain's expression of imponderable terror and his acute loss of blood, or the ship's strange cargo -- fifty boxes of earth?

The game is affot, and Sherlock Holmes, aided as ever by the faithful Dr. Watson, finds himself on the trail of no mortal enemy, but the arch-vampire himself -- Count Dracula...


It basically intertwines Sherlock Holmes into the actual story of Dracula, In I believe, a time gap or something that is in the book? I dont remember now. But I recall it being placed somewhere during the events of the book, when Dracula was unaccounted for.

[Mooning Freddy]

Hehehe, that sounds awesome.
The reason this is so awesome is basically because both Dracula and Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories were written (and take place) in the same historical time period, in England; as well as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, btw.

I think that period was a golden time for British fiction / thriller writers, as so many great books were written practically at the same time.

What I don't like about the idea is that it's a criss-cross between a realistic thriller and a fantasy one. Fans of Sherlock Holmes can say that Conan Doyle's stories are all about Holmes finding logical, scientific explanations to every "supernatural" occurrence.
 (Like in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes film, which was IMO fantastic as he brought in a lot of action into a story otherwise very loyal to Conan Doyle's style of writing). 

So yeah, unless Sherlock Holmes eventually finds a scientific explanation to Dracula's vampirism, I'd say the two are not meant together. 

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That would be a fantastic read. I think I'll keep my eyes out for this book too.

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No, he's more forced to accept the reality that Dracula is real. (Though it doesnt mean he doesnt try to rationalize it)

It actually meshes very well the way it is written.

[Gunlord]

Sounds awesome.