Wowzers… another fantastically researched discussion - thoroughly enjoyed the listen… and boy! throw me across a pack-horse but that dastardly historical fact-nugget about Charles Augustus Murray is the bestest bit of great research of all - surely that’s the most Holmesian sounding name ever!!! However! Did you fully research whether the names Crosse or Blackwell appeared elsewhere in any other Doylean fiction? Missed opportunity if not 😂Or maybe that would be too much of a pea-souper research wise!!!!
Fascinating video as always! The speculations about Moran working for the Russians, the events of "The Final Problem" being staged, and so on were a highlight. It was also a pleasure to read Wodehouse's "The Prodigal," which you mentioned. Since Kipling's _Kim_ was probably set in the 1890s, one wonders if Holmes encountered Kimball O'Hara in the course of his Asiatic travels. Speaking of crossovers, the author Thomas Kent Miller wrote a fascinating pastiche called "Sherlock Holmes at the Roof of the World," featuring "Sigerson" meeting Holly and Leo from Rider Haggard's "She" series while in Tibet. In view of your comparing "The Adventure of the Empty House" to a ghost story, it is noteworthy that one of Algernon Blackwood's ghost stories from the same era is entitled "The Empty House"!
Hello - so sorry to have only now spotted this comment! Thanks so much for the kind comments. Blackwood’s The Empty House is a marvellous story, isn’t it? ACD has a chapter in The Land of Mist that similarly comes from personal experience of psychical research. All the best and thanks for commenting!
@@doingsofdoyle The fault is mine, for I only came to this episode eight months after it was released! But yes, Blackwood is on the same level as Poe, Machen and Lovecraft (the latter believed that Blackwood's "The Willows" was the greatest weird tale ever written). He was, like Doyle, a master of supernatural horror. Tolkien said that the name "Crack of Doom" in _The Lord of the Rings_ was taken from an Algernon Blackwood story. I wish you a great weekend!
Wowzers… another fantastically researched discussion - thoroughly enjoyed the listen… and boy! throw me across a pack-horse but that dastardly historical fact-nugget about Charles Augustus Murray is the bestest bit of great research of all - surely that’s the most Holmesian sounding name ever!!! However! Did you fully research whether the names Crosse or Blackwell appeared elsewhere in any other Doylean fiction? Missed opportunity if not 😂Or maybe that would be too much of a pea-souper research wise!!!!
Fascinating video as always! The speculations about Moran working for the Russians, the events of "The Final Problem" being staged, and so on were a highlight. It was also a pleasure to read Wodehouse's "The Prodigal," which you mentioned. Since Kipling's _Kim_ was probably set in the 1890s, one wonders if Holmes encountered Kimball O'Hara in the course of his Asiatic travels.
Speaking of crossovers, the author Thomas Kent Miller wrote a fascinating pastiche called "Sherlock Holmes at the Roof of the World," featuring "Sigerson" meeting Holly and Leo from Rider Haggard's "She" series while in Tibet.
In view of your comparing "The Adventure of the Empty House" to a ghost story, it is noteworthy that one of Algernon Blackwood's ghost stories from the same era is entitled "The Empty House"!
Hello - so sorry to have only now spotted this comment! Thanks so much for the kind comments. Blackwood’s The Empty House is a marvellous story, isn’t it? ACD has a chapter in The Land of Mist that similarly comes from personal experience of psychical research. All the best and thanks for commenting!
@@doingsofdoyle
The fault is mine, for I only came to this episode eight months after it was released! But yes, Blackwood is on the same level as Poe, Machen and Lovecraft (the latter believed that Blackwood's "The Willows" was the greatest weird tale ever written). He was, like Doyle, a master of supernatural horror. Tolkien said that the name "Crack of Doom" in _The Lord of the Rings_ was taken from an Algernon Blackwood story.
I wish you a great weekend!
@@TheNineteenthCentury Machen gets a mention in our Sept 2024 episode on 'The Blood-Stone Tragedy', out later today.