This is of course expected in a story that combines two author’s work: the author is forced to find a balance between telling the readers enough without confusing them.Īs per expected, Moriarty becomes the villain, as is with every Sherlock Holme’s tale. It spent time recounting details, as is customary with Sherlock Holmes’s stories, and I found myself losing focus on certain passages that went into the deep details of the Old Gods. While Lovegrove stays true to the original characters, the retelling did grow a little cumbersome. The Old Gods are real, and they are haunting London as shadows, taking lives and stumping even the notorious Sherlock Holmes. Even if you don’t know every Sherlock Holmes story, or only have a small knowledge of HP Lovecraft’s work, you’ll be able to follow along with this adventure. In a tale told in the same format as the original Sherlock Holmes stories, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, this first part of The Cthulhu Casebooks feels as if it comes right out of the original narrative. Sherlock Holmes answers the call of Cthulhu in James Lovegrove’s retelling of Sherlock Holmes. Upon meeting Sherlock Holmes by pure chance in a pub, rather than introduced by a friend as he so claimed (although the friend is still to blame), Watson and Holmes embark on a journey that takes them to the world of Eldritch Gods, the Necronomicon, and deaths that defy humanity. He had stretched the truth and changed the stories to suit a better narrative, for the truth is much darker. There is more to Sherlock Holmes than being a witty detective. At the end of his days, Watson has decided to tell us the truth. The original story, A Study in Scarlet, has paved the way for this notable detective to influence ever element of popular culture.
Everyone knows the story of Sherlock Holmes.
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