Holmes oddities...
Okay folks, I've been looking for a couple of Sherlock Holmes oddities, and I was hoping some of you might be able to help me out! First, could someone tell me the name of the novel, and the author...
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I suspect the book you're thinking of is "Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds" by Manly Wade Wellman and his son Wade Wellman. It is a fun and sort of pulpish read. The unmade Sherlock Holmes vs....
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Thank you harry! I didn't realize that the Holmes/Dracula mashup was so current. I was under the impression that they were talking about doing this during the big "Dracula" fad in the laste 70's, when...
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Well, there was also a bogus rumour about Hammer making a Holmes/Dracula film more than 35 years ago, but I'm sure there are other folks on these boards better suited than myself to address that bit...
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Bip, there WAS a Holmes/Dracula book from that era - "Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula : The Adventure of the Sanguinary Count" ; maybe someone talked of filming it? Best, -Craig W.
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There were a couple Holmes/Dracula books in the 1970s. The other, less satisfying to my mind than Loren D. Estleman's book that Craig mentioned, was Fred Saberhagen's "The Holmes-Dracula File". As far...
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Charles, I had another title ticking the back of my mind - that was it! I seem to recall agreeing with you on the Saberhagen book; but I did like his THE DRACULA TAPE, the first variation I'd read of...
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There was an announcement back in the mid-70's that Keith McConnell was going to star in Frank Saletri's "Sherlock Holmes and the Golden Vampire" which had a now-familiar plot point: Dracula was under...
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I'd prefer to give the man the benefit of a doubt, frankly. After all, who knew that the guy who made "Bad Taste" would go on to do "The Lord of the Rings" and the pretty good remake of "King Kong?"...
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I found some old BoxOffice articles about Saletri's plans for the Holmes films. Saletri and McConnell formed FRISCO Productions and, in addition to SHERLOCK HOLMES IN THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN...
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