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"The Black Heaven" (1990)
Included in: The Irregular Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Ron Weighell)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Billy; Mycroft Holmes; Mrs Hudson
Historical Figures: Arthur Machen; Holy Grail; (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Other Characters: Scruffily-Dressed Man; Carriage Driver; Fisher's Ostler; Royston Fisher; Eye of Lucifer Cult Members; Mary; Mr Prior; Hillside Hordes; Mounted Host; Newport Police; Inspector Evans; (Workman; Man in Alley; Merry-Makers; Charlie Chips)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Italianate Mansion; Diogenes Club; Mass House; South Wales; Newport; Fisher's Home; Post-y-Wiber; Prior's House
Story: Machen visits Holmes. He is alarmed that strangers he meets keep referring to topics from his books as if they are real. Holmes and Watson follow him, and see him lured into an old mansion, and questioned on his creation "The Black Heaven". They discover that Mycroft has become involved, and he tells thjem of being taken blindfolded to witness a Satanic Mass, and his subsequent blackmail. While investigating, in disguise, with Holmes, Machen is abducted. Mycroft and Holmes recreate a childhood game to locate him, but is Holmes's analysis of a painting that takes them to Wales, where they learn of the Eye of Lucifer cult from the scholar Fisher. They race to rescue Machen and prevent a human sacrifice.
"The Case of the Fiery Messengers" (1990)
Included in: The Irregular Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Ron Weighell)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs. Hudson; (Inspector Lestrade)
Historical Figures: M.R. James; John Dee
Other Characters: George J. Barker; Mr. Muir; Mr. Biggs; Edward Crowley; Eldred; Wimbush; (Mottram; Rodgers; Dr. Verrall; Kelly)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Cambridge; Kings College; Trinity Library; Crowley's Rooms; James's Rooms; King's College Chapel; The Backs
Date: 22nd - 24th December 1895
Story: After explaining to Watson how he has saved an innocent man's life by an examination of a pair of boots, Holmes is visited by M.R. James, who has discovered a manuscript by John Dee, seemingly a mnemonic for memorising magical invocations, only to be lured from his room and have it stolen along with several sheets of blank paper. Holmes sends Watson to Cambridge to investigate. After visiting Crowley, Watson is convinced that he is the thief. Holmes believes that the manuscript leads to a secret in King's College Chapel, where they maintain a vigil, lying in wait for the thief. When he arrives he is accompanied by an unexpected presence, and suffers an equally unexpected death before Holmes can effect a capture.
"The Curse of Nectanebo" (2000)
Included in: The Irregular Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Ron Weighell)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mycroft Holmes; (Inspector Lestrade)
Historical Figures: (Nectanebo I; Nectanebo II)
Other Characters: Florence Farrell; Dorothy Edney; Dr. Wallis; Mr. Crossland; Dr. Bhey; Urchin; Sakhara Guide; Train Stewards; Nile Boatmen; The Old One; The Old One's Men; Holmes's Men; Italian Train Driver; French Fisherman; Farmer; Count Metterling; Police officers; (Mr. Meguid; Zeini)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; The British Museum; Newington Butts; Meguid's Lodging House; Egypt; Cairo; The Egyptian Museum; Gizeh; Sakhara; Nectanebo's Temple; Cairo; A Train; Luxor; Karnak; Edfu; Thes-Heru; Alexandria; Italy; Naples; France; Calais; The English Channel; Dover
Story: Holmes is called to the British Museum by a client who he deduces to be a middle aged woman, but who turns out to be a ten year old girl. She tells him that a bust of Seti I has moved in a museum case, although everyone has assured her that the case has not been opened. Holmes deduces that objects have been moved to conceal the theft of a plaque from another case. On consulting Dr. Wallis, they discover that the Metterling Stelé, on loan to the museum has been stolen, and his Egyptian assistant has disappeared. Crossland, a diplomat, is concerned that the loss could cause problems in Britain's relationships with the Balkan State from where it was on loan. Holmes has three weeks to recover the stelé. Florence & Dorothy learn that Meguidi is a thief, Zeini, who specialises in antiquities from the reign of the pharoah Nectanebo II. Holmes & Watson travel to Egypt in pursuit of Zeini. From Dr. Bhey they learn that the stelé is said to give eternal life to those that perform rituals at certain places. Bhey sets out to decode the locations of the ritual sites in order to retrieve the stelé, and as they visit each, it soon becomes apparent that they are following a large group of men, and being followed by a young street urchin. On board a train to Luxor they are attacked, and Holmes falls from the train. They find Holmes in disguise in Karnak, and he tells them of "The Old One", a figure much feared in the district, and who Watson & Bhey finally face at Edfu. Holmes arrives with reinforcements, the Old One dies a bizarre death, and Watson's life is saved by an unexpected ally. Their journey back to England is plagued with problems, and on their return they must face a pair of assassins before they finally learn the true identity of Watson's rescuer.
"The Sect of the Salamander" (1992)
Included in: The Irregular Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Ron Weighell)
Story Type: Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; Mrs Hudson; Inspector Lestrade; Baker Street Irregulars; (Mycroft Holmes; Wiggins)
Fictional Characters: (Alphonse Bencin)
Historical Figures: Constable Philip Newton Spare; (Austin Osman Spare; Benvenuto Cellini)
Other Characters: Thomas Hodgson; Workman; Medwin; Hansom Driver; Mr Bryant; Carnival Revellers; Paulo; Signor Rosellino; Toto ; Mourners; Children; Palazzo Servant; Marchesa di Garzoni; Old Workman; Mentoni; (Sir Reginald Thurston Bertini; Admiral Garzoni; Doge Barbarini)
Date: February
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Burleigh Square; The Thurston Residence; 11, Garrison Street; Florence; Venice; Rosellino's Shop; Hotel; Palazzo Garzoni; Island of St Michele; Barbarini Tomb; Murano; Salamander Glass Foundry
Story: Hodgson is sent to Holmes by Spare, when a workman is murdered and a document authenticating a Cellini bronze is stolen from his employer, Thurston's house. Identifying tracks of two men at the crime scene, Holmes sets the Irregulars to find their carriage. Mycroft's examination of a walking -stick ferrule sends Holmes and Watson to Venice, where they arrive during the Carnival. From the Marchesa di Garzoni they learn the history of her family, and its links to the Sect of the Salamander, and a lost Cellini sculpture. A clue in a clock puts Holmes on the trail, taking him and Watson to a graveyard. But it is his knowledge of ashes that leads him to a fencing match with a childhood adversary in a glass foundry.

"The Shadow of the Wolf" (1992)
Included in: The Irregular Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Ron Weighell)
Story Type: Supernatural Pastiche
Canonical Characters: Sherlock Holmes; Dr. Watson; The Head Lama; (Professor Moriarty)
Historical Figures: The 13th Dalai Lama
Other Characters: Dodds; Mrs. Sturleson; Freya Sturleson; Mr. Sturleson; Tibetan Porters & Guides; Karl Sturleson; (John Sturleson; The First Mrs. Sturleson)
Locations: 221B, Baker Street; Yorkshire; Crowford; Tarn Lodge; Tibet; Lhasa; Mount Everest
Story: Holmes is summoned to Yorkshire to investigate an apparent werewolf killing. The victim was found in his bedroom, the house surrounded by unmarked snow. His mother keeps a conservatory of exotic plants, some of which have recently started dying. Also in the house is the boy's invalid artist father who tells Holmes that a werewolf curse has been passed down from his ancestors and that he is responsible, and his sister who believes that her mother is responsible for her brother's death. Holmes sets up a night-time vigil, but is unable to prevent another death. Holmes tells Watson of his visit to Tibet during the hiatus, his attempts to track the yeti at the request of the Dalai Lama, and of a murder that occurred on the hunt, and which he has allowed to distort his judgement in the current case. A cutlery theft finally puts Holmes on the killer's trail.