The world’s greatest detective
crashes into Clive Barker’s infamous realm of horror in the crossover event of
2016
Solaris is excited to reveal the
acquisition of Sherlock Holmes and the Servants Of Hell, an horrific adventure
from bestselling author Paul Kane that pits the Great Detective against the
Cenobites of Clive Barker’s Hellraiser mythos.
About as far away from Benedict Cumberbatch
as you can get, Kane’s story – which has remained shrouded in secrecy up to now
– is undoubtedly Holmes’ most outlandish adventure to date, launching Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle’s finest creation headlong into Clive Barker’s famous Hellraising
universe
Solaris Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Oliver
commented on the signing:
“The world’s greatest detective meets
horror’s greatest icons, what more could you want? Paul has been a significant
voice on the horror scene for a while now and he’s steeped in Clive Barker’s
hell-bound mythos. That we now have the chance to pit Holmes against a world he
could never have imagined is very exciting indeed. This promises to be a
journey into hell, pitting two great masters against each other. Gruesome, yet
compelling, Kane will undoubtedly deliver the horror crossover of 2016.”
Paul Kane said:
“I’m incredibly excited – if also
more than a little daunted – by the prospect of this book. It’s only the third
long form fiction featuring elements from Clive’s Hellraising universe, coming
after The Hellbound Heart and this year’s massively successful The
Scarlet Gospels, and the first time Holmes has ever encountered the
mythology. Readers can expect a very different kind of Holmes book, and a very
different kind of novel featuring Hell and its famous Servants.”
Sherlock
Holmes and the Servants Of Hell by Paul Kane will
be published by Solaris in July 2016.
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Sherlock Holmes
and the Servants Of Hell
Late 1895, and Sherlock Holmes and his
faithful companion Dr John Watson are called upon to investigate a missing
persons case. On the face of it, this seems like a mystery that Holmes might
relish – as the person in question vanished from a locked room – and something
to occupy him other than testing the limits of his mind and body.
But this is just the start of an
investigation that will draw the pair into contact with a shadowy organisation
talked about in whispers and known only as ‘The Order of the Gash’. As more and
more people go missing in a similar fashion, the clues point to a sinister
asylum in France and to the underworld of London. However, it is an altogether
different underworld that Holmes will soon discover – as he finds himself face
to face not only with those followers who do the Order’s bidding on Earth, but
those who serve it in Hell: the Cenobites...
About
the author
Paul Kane is the author and editor of over
fifty books, including the bestselling Arrowhead trilogy for Abaddon Books. His
genre journalism has appeared in the likes of SFX, Rue Morgue and DeathRay,
and he is regarded as a leading authority on Clive Barker’s Hellraiser mythos,
having written numerous articles on the series as well as The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy, published by McFarland
books. He lives in Derbyshire with his wife, the horror writer Marie O’Regan,
their children and a black cat called Mina.
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