Buy it!
Edit: deleted optional comma for ease of reading. Bloodsage fucked around with this message on 10-27-2005 at 01:42 AM.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
I'm about half-way through it, and it's pretty good. Honestly, Gaiman's story is one of the best I've read. It's 100% true to form for both Doyle and Lovecraft. . .and a few minutes after reading it, you're going to drop what you're doing and say, "Ooooh. . . ."
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
Stuff by Jack Whyte is pretty slick, though.
"And then," said the shorter one, "he will stretch and yawn and get dressed--"
"Probably go to the toilet, I wouldn't be at all surprised."
"Maybe read the papers."
"--And having done all that, he will come out of the depths and consume the world utternly."
Ben found this unspeakable funny. "Like a ploughman's," he said.
"Exactly." Alaan fucked around with this message on 10-27-2005 at 02:23 AM.
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MorbId said this, then charged the door while shouting "CHONGO LONGO!":
Shoggoth's Old Peculiar is fantastic. "I, Cthulhu" is also pretty amusing. That one's on Neil Gaiman's website.
Last I checked, so was "A Study in Emerald." Had to read it a second time before I got it....not knowing much about Holmes didn't help matters.
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And Bloodsage is right, the Gaiman story is definitely worth the price of admission.