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Huan Tsung Chao (Fu Manchu series - Sax Rohmer)
"The Eye of Oran" (Win Scott Eckert) 27

Hubbard, Elbert (American Writer, 1856-1915)
Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 29

Hubbard, L. Ron (American Author, 1911-1986)
The Hermit: An East Wind Coming (Arthur Byron Cover) 260, 279

Hubbard, Old Mother: see Old Mother Hubbard

Hubert, St. (Bishop of Maastricht, c.656-727)
St. Hubert's Hound: The Giant Rat of Sumatra (Richard L. Boyer) 87

Huc, Évariste Régis (Le Père) (French Missionary & Explorer, 1813-1860)
Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 151; "An Envoy to Lhasa" (Ted Riccardi) 129, 155

Hucks, Bentfield C. (British Aviator, First to Loop the Loop, 1884-1918)
Lestrade and the Devil's Own (M J Trow) 87

Hudson, Reverend Charles (British Mountaineer, 1828-1865)
Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J.Trow) 167

Hudson, Ernie (American Actor, 1945- )
The Great Detective at the Crucible of Life (Thos. Kent Miller) 24

Hudson, George (British Railway Magnate)
Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J.Trow) 158, 167, 201, 225, 233; Lestrade and the Guardian Angel (M.J.Trow) 135

Hudson, Henry (British Navigator, ?-1611)
Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J.Trow) 167; Lestrade and the Gift of the Prince (M.J.Trow) 128
Hastings-on-Hudson: Believe (William Shatner & Michael Tobias) 121
Hudson Bay: Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery (Larry Millett) 229; "The Last Windigo" (Hayden Trenholm) 127-129, 136-137
Hudson Highlands: The Arcanum (Thomas Wheeler) 296
Hudson River: Sherlock Holmes and the Houdini Birthright (Val Andrews) 20; The Adventure of the New York Ripper (Philip J. Carraher) 79, 133; Femme Fatale (Carole Nelson Douglas) 316, 340; The Other Log of Phileas Fogg (Philip José Farmer) 123-124; The Holmes Inheritance (Brian Freemantle) 52, 56, 130, 265, 268; The 6 Messiahs (Mark Frost) 99, 190, 215, 217, 378; Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 118, 261; The Adventure of the Stalwart Companions (H. Paul Jeffers) 109, 152-153; The Surrogate Assassin (Christopher Leppek) 83; The Great Detective at the Crucible of Life (Thos. Kent Miller) 29, 39, 144; The Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes (Larry Millett) 123, 217; Believe (William Shatner & Michael Tobias) 140, 229, 305; The Seventh Bullet (Daniel D. Victor) 40, 133, 150; The Arcanum (Thomas Wheeler) 46, 65, 286, 291, 296; Everybody's Favorite Duck (Gahan Wilson) 35, 159, 200; Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich) 32, 248, 300, 336
Hudson Valley: The Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes (Larry Millett) 123; The Arcanum (Thomas Wheeler) 289

Hudson, Mr. (Upstairs Downstairs - TV series)
The Private Life of Dr. Watson (Michael Hardwick) 9

Hudson, Robert Spear (British Businessman, 1812-1884)
Hudson Soap: Sherlock Holmes and the Thistle of Scotland (L.B. Greenwood) 105

Hudson Dusters, The (New York Gang)
Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 184
The Houston Dusters: The 6 Messiahs (Mark Frost) 149, 152, 162-172, 177-178

Huey, Dewey & Louie (Walt Disney Cartoon Characters)
The Night Mayor (Kim Newman) 115

Huge Hunter, The (The Huge Hunter - Edward S. Ellis)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Allan Moore & Kevin O'Neill) 143

Huggins, Miller (American Baseball Player, 1879-1929)
Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 148

Hugh of Grenoble, St.
Order of St Hugh of Grenoble: Sherlock Holmes and the Adler Papers (John Hall) 67

Hugh of Vermandois (Crusader)
The Great Detective at the Crucible of Life (Thos. Kent Miller) 145

Hughes, Howard (American Multimillionaire, 1905-1976)
Sherlock Holmes in Dallas (Edmund Aubrey) 147; The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 140; The Canary Trainer (Nicholas Meyer) 9; "Voiceover" (Edward Wellen) 243

Hughes, John (American Colonel, Aided John Wilkes Booth)
The Surrogate Assassin (Christopher Leppek) 164

Hugo, Victor (French Author, 1802-1885)
 From Prussia with Love (John DeChancie) 79; Irene's Last Waltz (Carole Nelson Douglas) 218; "The Adventure of the Red Widow" (Adrian Conan Doyle) 251-252; Elementary, My Dear Groucho (Ron Goulart) 224; The Private Life of Dr. Watson (Michael Hardwick) 179, 195; The Art of Detection (Laurie R. King) 182; All-Consuming Fire (Andy Lane) 145; Rasputin's Revenge (John T. Lescroart) 199; The Canary Trainer (Nicholas Meyer) 38, 145; East of Ealing (Robert Rankin) 82; The Angel of the Opera (Sam Siciliano) 106, 109, 121, 133, 144, 241; A Samba for Sherlock (Jô Soares) 230; The Seventh Bullet (Daniel D. Victor) 37; Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich) 122
Hugoesque: Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich) 270-271

Huitzilopochtli (Aztec Sun God)
 "The Macabre Affair" (Bill Paxton) 59-60, 68, 84

Hulk, The (The Incredible Hulk - Marvel Comics Character)
An East Wind Coming (Arthur Byron Cover) 295

Hull, Patrick (Third Husband of Lola Montez, 1821-1858)
Spider Dance (Carole Nelson Douglas) 165-166, 196, 231-232, 235, 238, 397

Humann, Admiral (French Naval Commander)
The Siam Question (Timothy Francis Sheil) 372, 340, 349, 372

Humbert I: see Umberto I

Humboldt, Alexander, Freiherr von (German Explorer & Naturalist, 1769-1859)
Humboldt Desert: Young Sherlock: The Adventure at Ferryman's Creek (Gerald Frow) 133
Humboldt River: Young Sherlock: The Adventure at Ferryman's Creek (Gerald Frow) 133

Hume, David (Scottish Historian & Philosopher, 1711-1776)
The Adventures of Young Stamford (Richard M. Caplan, M.D.) 66; The Master Sleuth on the Trail of Edwin Drood (Robert F. Fleissner) 177; An Opened Grave (L. Frank James) 206; The Patient's Eyes (David Pirie) 40

Humes, Commander (JFK Assassination)
Sherlock Holmes in Dallas (Edmund Aubrey) 156-157, 160, 162

Hummel, Abraham (American Lawyer, 1849-1926)
Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich) 350

Humperdinck, Engelbert (German Composer 1854-1921)
The Pandora Plague (Lee A. Matthias) 260; Basil in the Wild West (Eve Titus) 59

Humphrey of Gloucester, Duke (English Nobleman, Brother of Henry V, 1391-1447)
Duke Humphrey's Library: Night Watch (Stephen Kendrick) 18
Duke Humfrey's: A Letter of Mary (Laurie R. King) 222

Humphreys, Charles O. (Oscar Wilde's solicitor)
"The Two Failures of Sherlock Holmes" (Donald Thomas) 12, 14
The West End Horror (Nicholas Meyer) 54-57

Humpty Dumpty (Nursery Rhyme Character)
"Humpty Dumpty, Did he Fall? Or Was he Pushed?" (Victor G. Ambrus)
 The Murder of Sherlock Holmes (James Anderson) 33, 46; Sherlock Holmes and the Alice In Wonderland Murders (Barry Day) 24, 86, 88-89, 91, 94, 96, 115, 173-174; Irene's Last Waltz (Carole Nelson Douglas) 93; They Might Be Giants (James Goldman) 110; Nevermore(William Hjortsberg) 232; Holmes on the Range (Steve Hockensmith) 2; My Hero (Tom Holt) 127; The Great Game (Michael Kurland) 64

Hundig (Die Walkure - Wagner)
Sherlock in Love (Sena Jeter Naslund) 138, 151, 153, 156, 177-178

Huneefa (Kim - Rudyard Kipling)
The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (Jamyang Norbu) 15

Hung Hsiu-Ch'üan (Chinese Leader of the Taiping Rebellion, 1814-1864)
Ten Years Beyond Baker Street (Cay Van Ash) 255
The Hung Society: Ten Years Beyond Baker Street (Cay Van Ash) 244

Hungry Tiger, The (Oz series - L. Frank Baum)
"Sherlock Holmes in Oz" (Ruth Berman) 438

Hunt, Reverend Joseph (Rector of Eyam, ?-1709)
"Sherlock Holmes and the Tick Tock Man" (Roy Templeman) 125

Hunt, Leigh (British Writer, 1784-1859)
Good Night, Mr. Holmes (Carole Nelson Douglas) 346

Hunt, Richard Morris (American Architect, 1827-1895)
Spider Dance (Carole Nelson Douglas) 412, 415-416, 419, 422; Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 27

Hunt, Theodore (American Sherlockian)
"Murder at the Murray Hill" (Edgar W. Smith) 60

Hunt, William Leonard "The Great Farini" (Canadian Performer, 1838-1929)
Eye of the Crow (Shane Peacock) 23, 201

Hunter (Callan - TV series)
"Be Seeing You!" (Xavier Mauméjean) 123; The League of Heroes (Xavier Mauméjean) 221

Hunter, Dr John (Scottish Surgeon, 1728-1793)
Moriarty (John Gardner) 171

Hunter, John (British Chemist)
"The Execution of Sherlock Holmes" (Donald Thomas) 51

Hunter, Mrs. Leo (The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens)
The Monstrous Regiment (Glen Petrie) 239

Hunter, Sir William Wilson (British Scholar & Biographer, 1840-1900)
"The Case of Hodgson's Ghost" (Ted Riccardi) 86

Huntington, Collis Potter (American Railway Baron, 1821-1900)
"Cross of Gold" (Michael Collins) 347; The 6 Messiahs (Mark Frost) 75

Huntley, Chet (American Broadcaster)
The Probability Pad (T.A. Waters) 15

Huntley, G.P. (Irish Actor, 1868-1927)
Sherlock Holmes in New York (D.R. Bensen) 15

Hunyadi, Janos (Hungarian General & Nationalist Leader, 1387-1456)
The Holmes-Dracula File (Fred Saberhagen) 182; Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J. Trow) 8
Hunjadi Janos: Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J. Trow) 210

Hupp, Robert & Louis (American Automobile Manufacturers)
Hupmobile: Believe (William Shatner & Michael Tobias) 120

Hurd, Douglas (British Politician, 1930- )
Lestrade and the Deadly Game (M.J.Trow) 142

Hurley Bull (American Gangster, Member of the Whyos)
Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich) 44

Hus, Jan (Czech Religious Reformer, 1372-1415)
The Demon Device (Robert Saffron) 32

Huskisson, William (First man killed by a train)
Lestrade and the Dead Man's Hand (M.J.Trow) 57-58

Hussein ibn Ali (Arabian Political & Religious Leader, Sherif of Mecca, King of the Hejaz, ?-1925)
Watson's Last Case (Ian Charnock) 31; Lestrade and the Magpie (M.J.Trow) 125

Husserl, Edmund (German Philosopher, 1859-1938)
The Book of Changes (R.H.W.Dillard) 204

Huston, John (American Director & Actor, 1906-1987)
"Holmes Ex Machina" (Susan Casper) 238

Huston, Walter (American Actor, 1884-1950)
The Night Mayor (Kim Newman) 10

Hutcheson, Elias P. (The Squaw - Bram Stoker)
Chapel Noir (Carole Nelson Douglas) 182

Hutchinson, George (Ripper Case, Saw Mary Kelly & a Man Entering Miller's Court)
The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (Michael Dibdin) 112-114
The Whitechapel Horrors (Edward B. Hanna) 307-310
Lestrade and the Ripper (M.J.Trow) 227-229, 238
Dracula's Diary (Michael Geare & Michael Corby) 119

Huxley, Aldous (British Author, 1894-1963)
 Sherlock Holmes in Dallas (Edmund Aubrey) 77, 113; The Curse of the Nibelung (Marcel D'Agneau) 90; The Language of Bees (Laurie R. King) 318

Huxley, Thomas Henry (British Biologist, 1825-1895)
"The Singular Habits of Wasps" (Geoffrey A. Landis) 227
The Great Detective at the Crucible of Life (Thos. Kent Miller) 57-60, 62-63, 66-68, 73, 79, 83, 86-89, 97-98, 100-101, 107-109, 115, 117-120, 140, 144, 161-162, 166, 170-171, 176, 178, 180, 186, 194-196, 198, 204-206, 212, 215-217
"The Red Planet League" (Kim Newman) 290, 311, 315
Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance (Gyles Brandreth) 47-48; "The Adventure of the Naturalist's Stock Pin" (Jon L. Breen) 189-190; Doctor Watson and the Invisible Man (Noel Downing) 11; The Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer) 21-22, 32, 40, 52-53, 82, 101, 105; The Dracula Caper (Simon Hawke) 53; The Language of Bees (Laurie R. King) 318; "Years Ago & In A Different Place" (Michael Kurland) 175; Skullduggery (Peter Marks) 73, 144; Anno Dracula (Kim Newman) 191, 225; Evolution (John Peel) 205; The Hampstead Poisonings (Glen Petrie) 166; Believe (William Shatner & Michael Tobias) 178; The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires (Brian Stableford) 22; Brigade (M.J.Trow) 218; Lestrade and the Mirror of Murder (M.J.Trow) 14

Huygens, Christiaan (Dutch Astronomer, Mathematician & Physicist, 1629-1695)
Huygens's Principle: The Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer) 121

Huysmans, Joris Karl (French Writer, 1848-1907)
Anno Dracula (Kim Newman) 66; Sherlock Holmes and the Devil's Grail (Barrie Roberts) 57

Hyatt, John Wesley (American Inventor of Celluloid, 1837-1920)
Young Sherlock: The Adventure At Ferryman's Creek (Gerald Frow) 23

Hyde, Edward (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (K.J. Anderson) 85, 89-99, 112, 128-130, 132, 146, 155-156, 191, 194-196, 200-204, 206, 225, 229-230, 235-240, 243-244, 248-250, 259-262, 264-265, 270-272, 275-277, 279-281
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Holmes (Loren D. Estleman) 18, 35-37, 40-43, 45, 48, 50-66, 68-69, 71-72, 77-87, 89-90, 92-99, 104-116, 122, 128-131, 133, 135, 140, 144, 146-155, 160-163, 167-169, 178-179, 195-205, 208, 211, 218-220, 224-229, 234-243, 246-247
Dracula's Diary (Michael Geare & Michael Corby) 56-58
"The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Holmes" (Steven Philip Jones & Seppo Makinen) 1-14, 17-28
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill) 18, 22-31, 45, 82-84, 88-93, 128, 131-135, 139, 141
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume 2 (Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill) 34-38, 41-45, 49, 51-55, 57-60, 66-70, 78-79, 83, 87-89, 93, 95, 97-99, 106-111, 116-119, 121, 131-142, 145
W.G. Grace's Last Case (William Rushton) 25-27, 116, 121-122, 124-125, 147, 151-152, 165, 174-175, 183, 185-187, 189-196, 203-204, 248, 260
 "Mr. Homes Solves A Question of Authorship" (John Kendrick Bangs) 214-216; Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat Murders (Barry Day) 82, 89; Masterminds of Falkenstein (John DeChancie) 41; Castle Rouge (Carole Nelson Douglas) 132; "The Finishing Stroke" (M.J. Elliott) 110; Elementary, My Dear Groucho (Ron Goulart) 40; The Dracula Caper (Simon Hawke) 33; The Surrogate Assassin (Christopher Leppek) 7; Skullduggery (Peter Marks) 35; Anno Dracula (Kim Newman) 55, 436
see also: Dr. Henry Jekyll; Jekyll & Hyde

Hyde's Housekeeper (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson)
Dr Jekyll and Mr Holmes (Loren D. Estleman) 50-53, 55-56, 59, 62, 68-69, 71
"The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Holmes" (Steven Philip Jones & Seppo Makinen) 12

Hyde, Edward, Lord Cornbury (British Colonial Governor of New York, 1661-1753)
W.G. Grace's Last Case (William Rushton) 152

Hydra, The (Monster in Greek Mythology)
The Giant Rat of Sumatra (Richard L. Boyer) 214; "The Adventure of the Captive Forger" (Philip J. Carraher) 134; Watson's Last Case (Ian Charnock) 75; The List of 7 (Mark Frost) 307; The Final Solution (Walter J. Harmidarow) 76; Sherlock Holmes: Draco, Draconis (Brett Spencer & Dorian David) 123; The Kentish Manor Murders (Julian Symons) 110; "The Execution of Sherlock Holmes" (Donald Thomas) 12; Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds (Manly W. Wellman & Wade Wellman) 168
Hydra-like: "The Adventure of the Captive Forger" (Philip J. Carraher) 134
Hydra of...: "The Case of Peter the Painter" (Donald Thomas) 230

Hylan, John F. "Red Mike" (Mayor of New York City (1918-25), 1868-1936)
Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 11, 217; The Arcanum (Thomas Wheeler) 153

Hylas (Greek Mythology)
Wilde About Holmes (Milo Yelesiyevich) 50

Hyman, Jake (Early Partner of Harry Houdini)
Nevermore (William Hjortsberg) 59

Hyndman, Henry Mayers (British Socialist Leader, 1842-1921)
Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (Nick Rennison) 92-94
The Case of the Revolutionist's Daughter (Lewis S. Feuer) 46, 115, 152; Anno Dracula (Kim Newman)16; Lestrade and the Magpie (M.J. Trow) 54; Lestrade and the Sign of Nine (M.J. Trow) 152-153

Hyperion (Titan in Greek Mythology)
The West End Horror (Nicholas Meyer) 57

Hypnos (Greco-Roman God of Sleep)
Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon (Larry Millett) 71