I.A. Watson is an adventure, fantasy, and SF author from Yorkshire, England. This page lists his published works and links to samples and stories.

* Robin Hood Homepage: preview chapters, free story, maps, character profiles and more

* Blackthorn Website: online serial story and plenty of other stuff

Cover: John Linwood Grant

ALONE ON THE BORDERLANDS - An Anthology of the Macabre

This volume of seventeen new and unsettling tales is set between 1901 and 1919 - from the death of Queen Victoria to the immediate aftermath of the Great War and the Spanish influenza epidemic. This is classic weird fiction, subverting many standards tropes, with strong psychological components, evoking Edwardian dread.

Of the book, editor John Linwood Grant says, "Call it an adventure in weird fiction if you like... Some of the contents here no doubt count as horror, others are uncomfortable, even terrifying, relections on people and their supposedly-ordinary lives. Some tales bring a degree of closure, others are dark and worrisome snapshots of circumstances which no one may ever understand. "

I.A. Watson's contribution is "When the Sea Gives Up Her Dead", set in a bleak Lincolnshire village where a whole generation of men has been wiped out by war - and a young boy looks for ther return anyway.

"Alone on the Borderlands"
ISBN 13: 237-0001944299
Published by Belanger Books
Release date: October 2024
Retail Price: Paperback UK £18.95, US $24.95

Cover and Interiors: Rob Davis

SHERLOCK HOLMES: CONSULTING DETECTIVE Volume 20

To celebrate twenty volumes and 1.3 million words of canon-compliant Sherlock Holmes short stories, I.A. Watson's main story in this anthology is "The Strand Magazine Murders", wherein Holmes and Watson are called in to investigate the suspicious death of an editor at the very publication where Arthur Conan Doyle places Watson's accounts of the Great Detective's cases!

I.A. Watson also contributes "The Testimony of Sherlock Holmes," in which Holmes is called to the stand as an expert witness for the defence about a capital crime, and a series of short featurettes in the style of the original Strand Magazine.

Authors Teel James Gleen, Ray Lovato, and Michael Black also offer challenging new mysteries (and a poem).

To make this book the "volume fans will want to cherish forever" that Airship 27 promised, artist Rob Davis has gone above and beyond to include a plethora of in-page illustrations in the manner of the Strand Magazine itself; a hardback edition is actually fully laid out in the style of the original works.

Cover: Charles Shad

VINNIE DE SOTH AND THE GHOST TAXIS

Jobbing Occultist Vinnie de Soth has an atypical client list.

There are the Ghost Taxis that haunt the dark midnight streets of London which are facing a hostile takeover.

There are the Trolls under London’s bridges that need a murder solving.

There’s that insurance investigation about the pile-up on Hammersmith Flyover where a ghost grabbed a driver’s wheel.

And there’s an extradimensional heist for Vinnie’s ex-fiancée that pits him against one of the most powerful fictional sorcerers of all time – except that no-one can convince the villain that he’s not real and deadly.

Another set of arcane investigations, another set of uncollected fees!

"Vinnie De Soth and the Ghost Taxis"
ISBN 13: 979-8880017959
Published by Chillwater Press
Release date: June 2024
Retail Price: Paperback UK £14.20 US $17.98, Kindle UK £5.50 US $7.08

Cover: Charles Shad

VINNIE DE SOTH, JOBBING OCCULTIST - Reissued in new format, with two additional stories

If you know where to look, London is full of ghosts.

And ghouls. And vampires, necromancers, cambions, fairies, werewolves, oracles, skinshifters, zombies, and some things that are downright weird.

When you have a problem with things that go bump in the night, you need VINNIE DE SOTH, JOBBING OCCULTIST, exiled white sheep of a notorious ancient house of black sorcerers, now scraping a living from a Soho bookshop backroom when he's not saving the world.

Arcane urban adventure in the shadows of civilisation, close to reality near yours!

Note for readers: This expanded, revised edition includes two additional stories, but since the author doesn't want to make owners of the previous version of the volume miss out, completists may enjoy the new material free from these links:
"Vinnie de Soth and the Vampire Definition" is available in the free sampler Occult Detective Magazine #0
"Vinnie De Soth and the Blood Superior" is available here.

"Vinnie De Soth, Jobbing Occultist"
ISBN 13: 979-8772386804
Published by Chillwater Press
Release date: June 2015
Expanded Edition: January 2022
Retail Price: Paperback UK £12.99 US $17.24, Kindle UK £4.50 US $6.07

Cover: MysticArtDesign (modified)

VINNIE DE SOTH AND THE EXORCIST'S UNION

The Exorcists Union has arrived in London and, for anybody in the spirit-wrangling game, membership is compulsory.

Except that Vinnie knows a racket when he sees one and won't pay his dues.

That's the kind of thing that gets a jobbing occultist put out of business permanently - by every monster and demon dredged up by a powerful and sinister international occult cartel.

Vinnie de Soth returns in a new book with six exciting stories, inluding the novellas "Vinnie de Soth and the Death Wish" and "Vinnie de Soth and the Unemployed Royal".

"Vinnie De Soth and the Exorcist's Union"
ISBN 13: 979-8408437917
Published by Chillwater Press
Release date: January 2022
Retail Price: Paperback UK £12.50 US $19.94, Kindle UK £5.50 US $7.45

Cover: MysticArtDesign (modified)

VINNIE DE SOTH AND THE VOYAGE CHTHONIC

Once every seven years, a convoy from Faerie attempts the dangerous underground river voyage beneath the Hall of the Mountain King. It’s a bad idea to wake him up.

This time, the magus contracted to pilot the ships through the horrors of the Voyage Chthonic is murdered, stranding nine hundred assorted Elves, Dwarves, Sprites, pirates, mercenaries, Corn Maidens, Domovoi, talking animals, royalty, and other, even stranger things on Earth.

A new navigator is needed, perhaps some kind of Jobbing Occultist from Soho? It’s not like Vinnie de Soth can afford to turn down the work.

Vinnie must steer the fleet past monsters in the dark, terrors of old legend, plots, treachery, slavers, Deep Ghouls, and some gory old nursery tales. All in a day’s work – until the Sleeping King who must not be disturbed awakens.

Will it be Happy Ever Afters for the heroes, the villains, the monsters, or nobody?

A dark fairy tale whodunit from the author of Vinnie de Soth, Jobbing Occultist and Vinnie de Soth and the Exorcists Union.

"Vinnie De Soth and the Voyage Chthonic"
ISBN 13: 979-8366182188
Published by Chillwater Press
Release date: December 2022
Retail Price: Paperback UK £12.50 US $15.53, Kindle UK £5.50, US $6.63

Cover: Charles Shad

WOMEN OF MYTH - Reissued in new format

A tragedy.
A fairy tale.
An adventure.
A horror story.

In this thought-provoking anthology, I.A WATSON turns the spotlight on the heroines of legend, to give voice on ancient injustices, to rediscover ignored passions, and to take terrible revenges:

In Welsh myth The Flower Maiden Blodeuwedd was created to be the perfect wife for a cursed prince - but nobody ever asked her if she wanted to be.

A girl reduced to a cinder-grimed hearth slave requires more than borrowed magical slippers to become The Lady of the Land.

A Trojan princess must survive monsters and heroes alike in Sometimes a Princess Has To Die.

And King Solomon's wisdom is tested as never before when he encounters The Mother of Demons.

This work includes adult themes.

A sample of "Sometimes a Princess Has To Die", Hesione's tale from Women of Myth

"Women of Myth"
ISBN 13: 979-8688341959
Published by Chillwater Press
Release date: August 2015
Second Edition: October 2020, Third Edition 2022
Retail Price: UK £11.99 US $16.25, Kindle UK £4.50 US $6.10

Cover: G.G. Mitchell

SIR MUMPHREY WILTON AND THE LOST CITY OF MYSTERY - Reissued in new format

A desperate young woman must decode her murdered father’s journal...
Impossible Nazi supermen hunt her across the globe...
Ghouls haunt the subways of New York City...
A forbidden sect exploits the fall of Hong Kong...
A vampire stalks war-battered Malta’s crowded refugee tunnels...
Ancient apes speak in the language of the gods...
A mysterious pocketwatch alters time itself...
This must be a case for SIR MUMPHREY WILTON, gentleman troubleshooter, ever-ready to smite the ungodly and save the day – if he can survive that long!

Here's a link to a review by Dave Brzeski

"Sir Mumphrey Wilton and the Lost City of Mystery"
ISBN 13: 9798763230086
Published by Chillwater Press
Release date: October 2014, January 2022
Retail Price: Paperback UK £12.50, US $16.59, Kindle UK $4.99 US $6.73

Cover: Charles Shad

ST GEORGE AND THE DRAGON - Reissued in new format paperback containing the previous two-volume work in one revised edition

As the Roman Empire crumbles a much older power awakens. With him rise pitiless monsters from legend and prehistory. Astarot the Dragon demands gold, power, and virgin flesh. Most of all he demands Princess Sabra, Nymph of the Sacred Pool. Only a miracle can stop him.

Unfortunately, the appointed saint has other ideas. And he's no saint.

But will he be a hero?

I.A. WATSON brings a slice of legend to life in the first of two enthralling volumes of sword against serpent, passion versus dragonfire, for the future of all humanity.

Map of Roman Cyrenaica
Map of Roman Cyrene

"St George and the Dragon"
ISBN 13: 979-8688344660
Published by Chillwater Press
Original release date of two volume version: February 2015
Combined second edition release date: March 2021
Retail Price: Paperback UK £15.99 US $22.01, Kindle UK £8.99 US $9.99,

Cover Art: Johan Köler
Cover Design: Charles Shad

LABOURS OF HERCULES - Reissued in new format paperback

Greek myth's greatest hero faces his greatest tragedy. Blessed and cursed by the gods, Hercules faces twelve impossible tasks that will take him past the ends of the world, pit him against monsters from beyond imagination, and force him to defy even the deities of Olympus to save those who loved.

Classical legend meets modern adventure as I.A. WATSON delves back into the original classical sources to weave this tale of legend's greatest hero. Hercules, the archetypal monster-fighting warrior, great is passion and in wrath, is portrayed in all his flawed glory in a world where legend is giving way to history and the gods are slowly giving way to the rise of humanity.

Read The Sixth Labour: Chasing Off the Stymphalian Birds
Maps of the Labours of Hercules

"Labours of Hercules"
ISBN 13: 9798687929998
Published by Chillwater Press
Release date: December 2016
Third Edition: September 2020, Fourth Edition 2022
Retail Price: Paperback UK £11.99 US $13.50, Kindle UK £4.50 US $6.07

Cover Design: Charles Shad

THE DEATH OF PERSEPHONE

It was the first gothic romance:
A young woman is swept away by a dark, brooding lover to his remote estate of mystery and secrets.
Caught between love and horror, she must fathom his plots and learn his heart.
Sinister forces work against her, and tragedy is only a step behind.
Only... she's the Maiden Goddess of Spring, daughter of Zeus, and he's Hades, King of the Dead.

I.A.Watson's take on the classical story covers the span of one of mythology's darkest and strangest romances. This volume also includes an afterword about the gothic romance tradition, appendices of characters and terms, and many footnotes.

Link to An Abbreviated Genealogy of the Protogenoi, Titans, and the Gods of the Worlds Above and the Worlds Below according to the tales of the bards and the accounts of the wise.

Cover: Ted Hammond
Interiors: Howard Simpson

BULLDOG DRUMMOND - ON POISONED GROUND Volume 1

A brand new version of Sapper's classic pulp hero, reinvented for our times and jam-packed with suspense, thrills and danger enough to fill a half dozen books. Airship 27 Productions is thrilled to launch the return one of pulpdom’s most illustrious champions, Bulldog Drummond, in a new novel by writer I.A. Watson.

“Demobilised officer, finding peace incredibly tedious, would welcome diversion. Legitimate, if possible; but crime, if of a comparatively humorous description, no objection. Excitement essential.” - Bulldog Drummond's advertisement in The Times.

London 2018: Upon his discharge from the military, Captain Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond finds civilian life dull, so he resorts to a newspaper ad appealing for adventure. Much to his surprise, he gets much more than he could have ever bargained for and soon finds himself battling an evil genius bent on destroying all of London. Facing this a threat he can’t possibly overcome alone, he recruits his former S.A.S team, unique men with special skills that just might save the day. But the clock is counting down and the villains have plans of their own.

“Once you open page one, you will not be able to put this book down.” - Ron Fortier

Preview opening chapters

Cover: Chris Rawding (After Mort Kunstler)
Interiors: Howard Simpson

BULLDOG DRUMMOND - DISASTER ZONES Volume 2

Former SAS Captain, Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond and his teammates always seem to find themselves in hot water, no matter the place or situation. In this second volume of Airship 27 Productions brand new series, writer I.A. Watson lets loose with three explosive action-packed tales.

From the hunt for a missing Nazis Gold Train, to confronting a sadistic African warlord, to surviving a category 5 hurricane on a small Caribbean island, Bulldog Drummond once again demonstrates why he is one of pulpdom’s oldest and most exciting two-fisted action heroes.

“I love what writer I.A. Watson has done with this legendary pulp hero,” says Airship 27 Managing Editor Ron Fortier. “Modernizing any classic character is always a challenge and most often times fails miserably. Whereas Ian has done the impossible here by keeping the wall to wall action in his stories while at the same time maintaining Drummond’s wry sense of humor throughout.”

Cover and Interior Art: Howard Simpson

BULLDOG DRUMMOND - BAITED HOOK

Sapper's archetypal action adventure hero returns again, brought into the modern day and ready for more battles. Action-adventurer Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond literally advertises for trouble in The Times newspaper - and then troubleshoots, often literally.

In this volume, Drummond finds himself in the Saharan hellhole of Kufra in search of Ghaddafi’s stolen uranium stock. Then he’s off to the Texas border to assist an FBI pal in hunting the fabled monster known as the Chupacabra. And lastly, when his boss is assassinated and his team goes missing, Drummond must face an old and relentless foe.

“Ian Watson once again hits the bullseye,” cheers Airship 27 Production Managing Editor Ron Fortier. “His thrilling re-imagining of this iconic pulp hero is brilliant as is evident in this fun collection of rollicking stories. Once again proving the words Bulldog Drummond are synonymous with action and adventure.”

Pulp Factory Award-winning Artist Howard Simpson provides both the nine black and white interior illustrations and the striking full-color cover, while Art Director Rob Davis the book design.

"Bulldog Drummond - Baited Hook
ISBN-10: 1953589464
ISBN-13: 978-1953589460
Published by Airship 27s
Release date: February 2023
Retail Price: Paperback UK £14.17 US $16.99, Kindle UK £4.15 US $4.99

Cover: Chad Hardin
Interiors: Rob Davis

HOLMES AND HOUDINI

The Far Edge Club, rich bored thrill-seekers who play games with human life, man-hunt their most exciting prey, world-famous escape artist Harry Houdini. The iconic image of L'Inconnu, an unidentified drowned girl pulled from the Seine, becomes an inspiration for kidnap and murder. On the anniversary of a fateful meeting at Reichenbach Falls, Mr Sherlock Holmes receives a plaster death-mask of his old foe Professor Moriarty. A secret from a notorious South African concentration camp threatens to provoke mass murder in the capital of the British Empire.

What better occasion to demand the alliance of Sherlock Holmes, the world's greatest detective, and rising star Harry Houdini, adventurer, escapologist, and showman extraordinaire? I.A. WATSON's first full-length Holmes mystery chronicles the meeting - the game is afoot and the show must go on!

An account by Dr John H. Watson of his meeting with American impresario Mr Martin Beck, managing agent of Mr Harry Houdini (novel extract)

A podcast about HOLMES AND HOUDINI wherein I.A. Watson chats with Art Sippo at ArtsReview.

An interview about HOLMES AND HOUDINI and LABOURS OF HERCULES at Ralph's Rants.

"Holmes and Houdini"
ISBN 10: 0997786809
ISBN 13: 978-0997786804
Published by Airship 27
Release date: January 2017
Retail Price: Paperback $16.99, Kindle $4.99
$3 .pdf also available at The Airship 27 Hangar
Audiobook from Radio Archives, read by George Kuch

Cover and Interiors: Rob Davis

THE INCUNABULUM OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

The cover blurb for this one reads:

"In 2009 Airship 27 Production launched its series of brand new Sherlock Holmes adventures titled “Sherlock Holmes – Consulting Detective.” Among the contributors was a British writer named I.A. Watson. Considered a good omen by the publishers to have Watson on board, that first volume became a huge success; as did the subsequent sequels.

"In the past 12 years I.A. Watson’s Holmes tales have appeared in dozens of anthologies with various publishers much to delight of his fans. He is well versed in the original Conan Doyle Canon and his stories are magnificently annotated.

"In this new collection aptly called “The Incunabulum of Sherlock Holmes,” I.A. Watson delivers six imaginative stories exploring the many facets of the Great Detective and his loyal companion. Each is a rare gem chronicled by a master storyteller. We advise you make yourself comfortable, brew some tea and get ready for a wonderful reading experience as only a Watson can provide. Yes, dear readers, once again, the game is afoot.

"Art and book design by Pulp Factory Award winning artist Rob Davis."

This volume contains new I.A. Watson stories “The Adventure of the Second Heir” and the “Woman Who Collected Sherlock Holmes”, and collects I.A. Watson stories “The Adventure of the Substitute Detectives,” “the Adventure of the Giant’s Wife”, “The Case of the Fourpenny Coffin”, and “The Angel of Truth” from other anthologies.

Cover: Adam Diller

THE TRANSDIMENSIONAL TRAVEL COMPANY

It’s hard to find a job these days.
Art Ellswift was dumb enough and desperate enough to answer a tattered add in a backstreet newsagent for an all-purpose delivery boy.
It didn’t mention the dimensional travel.
Or the killer robots.
Or the mad scientists.
Or the alien invaders.
Or the exploding hippos.
It somehow failed to mention that saving the world was also in the job description.
Somewhere around page seven.

Luckily it was only a short term contract.
Nobody yet has survived to get a long one!

"The Transdimensional Travel Company"
ISBN 10: 1502730502
ISBN 13: 978-1502730503
Published by Chillwater Press
Release date: December 2014
Retail Price: Paperback UK £11.50 US $15.50, Kindle UK £4.50 US $6.10

Cover and Interiors: Charles Shad

PREMIUM DELIVERY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH

If you want it moved by weird science from A to B, the Transdimensional Transport Company will shift time and space to hit your deadlines. And if you have a specific problem, say your bank vault got emptied overnight by thieves who walked through walls, or your princess was kidnapped to a dinosaur-filled subterranean world, or two ancient species are racing to see who gets to wipe out humanity first… well, we might have to charge you overtime.

Terms and conditions need not apply.

Shortlisted for Best Pulp Novel 2018 in the Pulp Factory Awards.

Cover and Interiors by Rob Davis

THE LEGEND OF ROBIN HOOD

I.A. Watson's epic Robin Hood saga is collected at last in it's entirety. This 660-page omnibus edition includes the novels King of Sherwood, Arrow of Justice, and Freedom's Outlaw, the anthology Forbidden Legend, and the print debut of the novella The Death of Robin Hood, winner of the Pulp Factory Award for Best Short Story 2019, along with the maps, illustrations, and accompanying articles from the original volumes. There are even some new footnotes.

“This is one of the finest retelling of the Robin Hood myth ever done,” says Airship 27 Productions’ Managing Editor, Ron Fortier. “With each new volume, I.A. Watson put forth a truly fantastic adventure willed with all the action and romance one would expect from a Robin Hood story. Then, to top that all off, he set the darn thing against a real, historical background. The notes in these book are enough to teach a course in Old World British History and politics.”

Robin Hood: King of Sherwood preview chapters

"The Legend of Robin Hood"
ISBN 10: 1946183717 
ISBN 13: 978-0692317914
Published by Airship 27
Release date: December 2019
Retail Price: Paperback only $24.99

Cover by Mike Manley
Interiors by Rob Davis
Winner of Best Pulp Cover 2010

ROBIN HOOD: KING OF SHERWOOD

When the law is used to oppress the helpless, justice can only come from an outlaw.

Nominated for Best Pulp Novel of 2010 in both the Pulp Factory Awards and the Pulp Ark Awards, ROBIN HOOD, KING OF SHERWOOD covers the earliest days of the outrageous outlaw’s exploits. From his meetings with Little John, Friar Tuck, and Will Scarlet to his explosive clash with the sadistic Sir Guy of Gisbourne, this volume chronicles the rise of the forest lord.

Robin Hood: King of Sherwood preview chapters

"Robin Hood: King of Sherwood"
ISBN 10: 0692317910 
ISBN 13: 978-0692317914
Current edition published by Airship 27
First edition published by Cornerstone Books
Release date: 25th March 2010
Retail Price: Paperback $16.99, Kindle $4.99
$3 .pdf also available at The Airship 27 Hangar

Cover by Mike Manley
Interiors by Rob Davis
Nominated Best Pulp Cover 2011

ROBIN HOOD: ARROW OF JUSTICE continues the story as the scheming Sheriff of Nottingham plots the outlaw’s downfall. Including some of Robin’s most famous feats, including competing for the Golden Arrow at the Sheriff’s archery contest and helping Alan a Dale to rescue his bride from a cruel forced marriage, this volume brings the swashbuckling scofflaw together once more with the feisty Maid Marion to shake the foundations of Prince John’s England. Nominated for Best Pulp Novel of 2011 in both the Pulp Factory Awards and the Pulp Ark Awards.

Robin Hood: Arrow of Justice preview chapter

"Robin Hood: Arrow of Justice"
ISBN 10: 0692322280
ISBN 13: 978-0692322284
Current edition published by Airship 27
First edition published by Cornerstone Books
Release date: December 2011
Retail Price: Paperback $16.95, Kindle $4.68
$3 .pdf also available at The Airship 27 Hangar

Cover by Mike Manley
Interiors by Rob Davis

Cover: Jesus Rodriguez
Interiors: Rob Davis

ROBIN HOOD: FORBIDDEN LEGEND

When the law no longer serves justice, justice must be an outlaw.

By winter of 1191 King Richard the Lionheart was eighteen months gone from England on crusade. Those noble counsellors he’d left to administer his kingdom had squabbled then warred with each other while Richard’s younger brother and heir, Prince John “Lackland”, fanned the conflict. Armed barons and rich office-holders took advantage of the times to do whatsoever they pleased.

Yet there was resistance. Men without rights or liberty whispered that in deep Sherwood Forest a company of free outlaws robbed from the rich and gave to the poor, mocking the powerful and bringing hope to the powerless. The cruel Sheriff of Nottingham was unable to catch them. Mighty Prince John had nightmares about them. Secret stories were told of these men, and wheresoever these outlaw tales were spoken rebellion flourished.

It was forbidden to speak of Robin Hood, yet everyone knew his name..

"Robin Hood: Forbidden Legend"
ISBN 10: 0692317759
ISBN 13: 978-0692317754
Published by Airship 27
Release date: October 2014
Retail Price: Paperback $16.14, Kindle $4.98
$3 .pdf also available at The Airship 27 Hangar

Image by Adam Diller
Nominated Best Pulp Cover 2012

BLACKTHORN: DYNASTY OF MARS

In the traditions of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Jack Kirby, I.A. Watson takes forward bestselling Van Allen Plexico's visionary BLACKTHORN saga with a story nominated as Best Pulp Novel 2012!

Princess Aria is the only survivor of the ancient dynasty that first settled the red planet. The ancient magic of the devices that make Mars fit for human life flows though her by right and training. But she's also the daughter of the archvillainous Black Sorcerer who wars with the other tyrannical First Men that now carve Mars between them for their experiments and amusements.

Her world needs a champion and she needs a friend. But should she trust the hero dragged through time from old Earth-that-was? Can John Blackthorn and his fierce Mock-Man sidekick really stand against science, sorcery, and treachery? Can a few desperate rebels defeat the monstrous legions that have oppressed the red planet for millenia? And can Aria trust herself to do what is neccessary to achieve what she has set out to do - whatever the cost?.

"Blackthorn: Dynasty of Mars"
ISBN 10: 0615676545  ISBN 13: 978-0615676548
Release date: 27th July 2012
Published by White Rocket Books
Retail Price: Paperback $15.95, Kindle $2.55

Cover: Jarrod Alberich and Sivakami Mohan

BLACKTHORN: SPIRES OF MARS

Blackthorn, Princess Aria and Oglok ride again! In the traditions of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Jack Kirby, I.A. Watson delivers a second novel in bestselling Van Allen Plexico's visionary BLACKTHORN saga, where magic and technology are one and Humanity faces its ultimate challenge.

A young man desperate to save his sister from the raiders who kidnapped her to slavery... An ancient undead released after half a millennium... Four sorcerous First Men who will kill half a world to keep their darkest secret... And three champions who will stand for Mars against horror and tyranny--or die trying! Join Earth General John Blackthorn, Princess Aria of Mars, Oglok the Mock-Man and an ever-expanding cast of rebels, monsters, magicians and villains battling to solve the mystery of the ancient Harmony Spires.

"A ton of fun... you'll love the rip-roaring adventures of Blackthorn." --Mat Nastos, author of the Cestus series

"Blackthorn: Spires of Mars"
ISBN 10: 1973838761
ISBN 13: 978-1973838760
Release date: July 2017
Published by White Rocket Books
Paperback $14.95

Cover and Interiors: Rob Davis

SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERIES Volume 1 presents seven of award winning writer, I.A. Watson’s fabulous Sherlock Holmes adventures. This first volume, available only on Kindle, collects Watson’s first six Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson tales that have appeared in the first six volumes of Airship 27 Productions’ bestselling series, Sherlock Holmes – Consulting Detective.

“I.A. Watson has had a new story in each volume of “Consulting Detective,” since its inception,” reports Airship 27 Productions’ Managing Editor. “In fact his third entry in the series, ‘The Last Deposit’ won the Pulp Factory Award for Best Pulp Short Story. So we are extremely excited to be putting all these amazing stories together for our Kindle readers. As an added bonus, Airship 27 Productions is including an eighth, never before published adventure, “The Adventure of the Fading Light.” That makes this digital book twice the size of the regular volumes for the exact same price.”

This Kindle collection also features all the original illustrations by Pulp Factory Award winning artist, and Airship 27 Productions Art Director, Rob Davis.

"SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERIES Volume 1"
ASIN: B00S8SPQKU
Published by Airship 27
Release date: January 2015
Kindle Edition $4.99
Audiobook from Radio Archives, read by George Kuch

Cover and Interior Art: Rob Davis

SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERIES Volume 2

Compiling I.A. Watson's award-winning stories from Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Detective volumes 7, 8, 10-12, and featuring award-winning art from Rob Davis, this thick omnibus includes a murder in the cellars of Scotland Yard itself, the return of Spring-Heeled Jack, a battle of wits with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's other creation The Nottingham Crakster, and reveals for the first time what happened on Holmes and Watson's second case together in the never-before-published tale of "The Impossible Coin".

The volume also features the novella "The Affair of the Norwegian Sigerson", in which Watson and Lestrade must cope with the aftermath of Holmes' apparent death at Reichenbach Falls, the deadly Colonel Moran hunts a mysterious traveller across Europe, and a notorious opera singer receives an unexpected visitor whom she last spoke to in Baker Street.

Cover and Interior Art: Rob Davis

SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERIES Volume 3

Compiling I.A. Watson's award-winning stories from Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Detective volumes 13-19, and featuring award-winning art from Rob Davis, this thick omnibus includes "The Woman Who Collected Queen Victoria", "The Lady on the Ledge", "The Adventure of the Anarchist's Apprentice", "Legacy of the Nottingham Crackster", "The Adventure of the Restless Dead", and "The Quest for Guinevere", plus the novella "The Adventure of the Frozen Irregular" and the first publication of "The Testimony of Sherlock Holmes", along with their accompanying essays.

Cover: Rob Davis

THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD
Winner of the Pulp Factory Award for Best Short Story 2020

“300,000 words after I was first convinced to write a Robin Hood story (or 319,000 words if we count footnotes), I’ve finally got to the bit about Robin’s last arrow. The end.” writes author I.A. Watson about this wintery concluding novella to his popular series of Robin Hood books. “We are perhaps not as used to ends now as once we were. We are grown up in an age where there is always a sequel, another series, a rebooting, a next issue, another episode. Monetised intellectual properties require new material. Perhaps that’s why we still retain some distinction in our minds between ‘classic’ stories of these characters and ‘modern’ ones. The classics belong to everyone. The modern ones come with a © notice and a TM suffix that allows legal control.”

Ongoing “franchises” offer an illusion of change but constantly reset to default over time, but for many ancient heroes their passing is the capstone of their legend. Achilles’ heel, Hercules’ poisoned shirt, King Arthur’s final battle at the field of Camlaan and his sailing over the waters to the Isle of Avalon, each offer a sense of completeness and resolution that satisfies some deep need in us to know everything right to the end. “These conclusions speak to a deep basic desire that humans have to know ‘the full story from start to finish’,” Watson says, " So we have Beowulf’s final battle against the dragon and Roland’s last stand at Ronceveaux. These events not only conclude but complete their stories, elevating them to a different class. The ending puts the whole narrative into a final context. It offers the last word.”

And here is Watson's last word on Robin Hood, offered in a sombe compelling emotional capstone to the career of England's greatest rebel.

Cover: Mike Fyles

THE NEW ADVENTURES OF RICHARD KNIGHT: RACE WITH HELL

A 10,000 mile air race over the most dangerous environments on the planet. 31 of the world’s most daring pilots – before the killings start. An ancient evil awoken from its tomb to wreak ancient revenge on the living. Detective airman Richard Knight targeted for death. Can the man called Q prevent mass murder before the globe is plunged into chaos and war?

A brand new digest novel featuring Donald E. Keyhoe’s classic flying secret agent from award winning pulp author I. A. Watson takes Richard Knight on a Race With Hell! !

See the Race Map here

"The New Adventures of Richard Knight volume 2: Race With Hell"
ISBN 10: 1507582420
ISBN 13: 978-1507582428
Published by Pro Se Press
Release date: January 2015
Retail Price: Paperback$9.00, Kindle $2.99, Other Electronic Editions also available
Audiobook from Radio Archives, read by Pete Milan

Cover: Mike Fyles

THE NEW ADVENTURES OF RICHARD KNIGHT Volume 3

Richard Knight is a man who wears two faces. One, a rich playboy, travels in the circle of high society, the other an ace pilot and spy known only as Q. One man, two identities, and evil, natural and supernatural, in the world best look out for him as he once more flies into action in THE NEW ADVENTURES OF RICHARD KNIGHT VOLUME THREE!

Author I. A. WATSON returns to Donald E. Keyhoe's classic flying secret agent in this all-new anthology with three brand new tales featuring Knight and a cast of characters, including his trusted aide Larry Doyle and the lovely Benita Navarre. In "The Plague God Laughs", an avatar of death comes a Saharan village - flying a plane. "The Last Flight of Captain Tennyson" follows his inexplicable theft of a top-secret warbird to reach a mysterious and haunted island. "Feast of the Gremlins" tells the story of the test pilot who landed as a skeleton - the first amongst many unless Knight solves the case.

Shortlisted for Best Pulp Anthology 2018 in the Pulp Factory Awards.

"The New Adventures of Richard Knight volume 3"
ISBN 10: 1724832522
ISBN 13: 978-1724832528
Published by Pro Se Press
Release date: September 2018
Retail Price: Paperback $6.99, Kindle $2.99

Cover: Jeffrey Hayes

BYZANTIUM: DEAD MAN'S ROAD leads readers into a world of history and fantasy married with magic, monsters, and mystery in Book One of I.A. Watson's original Pro Se Single Shot Signatures Series novellas.

In a world where Christianity never arose to sweep away the old magics, where sorcerer-guilds and necromancer-kings rule amidst the Roman ruins, Kirkgrim the Wanderer joins a caravan train across war-torn wasteland to the world's most corrupt city. The reluctant hero finds himself trapped with travelers, refugee orphans, deserter soldiers, a beautiful hunted sorceress, and one mad Viking, amidst civil war, religious zealots, brutal reavers, and a growing zombie army - guarding a secret that could bring the last vestiges of civilization crashing down in flames.

In Byzantium Book One: Dead Men’s Road, a beautiful woman tasked with delivering a sealed package to the Invisible College in Byzantium is pursued by merciless bandits, relentless undead, and a charming scoundrel who has nothing to lose.

"Byzantium: Dead Man's Road"
ASIN: B00LWGO9F8
Published by Pro Se Press
Release date: July 2014
Retail Price: Kindle Edition $0.99

Cover: Jeffrey Hayes

BYZANTIUM: STONE AND FIRE is Book Two of I.A. Watson's original Pro Se Single Shot Signatures Series fantasy novella series.

Wandering Celtic priest Kirkgrim Carrionwake joined the caravan heading east to Byzantium mostly because he fancied Venetian mage Mirabelle de Castile. The collection of travellers seeking safe passage to the great city were a fascinating selection of merchants, messengers, monks, and others ripe for meddling with. Of particular interest were the newly-recruited Viking caravan guard Sigroth Sigrothson and the train’s lead scout Fitz, owner of a fighting war-pig.

Kirkgrim also suspected growing trouble as the rebel forces of Baron Olderus shifted their attentions west of the fallen Roman Empire’s old capital, defying Duke Sebastio’s weakening rule and fomenting chaos across the region. The Wanderer couldn’t know that the beautiful Lady Mirabelle was tasked with delivering a sealed casket to the Invisible College’s Byzantine Chapter, or that this treasure would draw the attention of a one-eyed sorcerer and his band or raiders and of a Necromancer who would raise an undead horde.

If he had known, Kirkgrim would have gone anyway.

"Byzantium: Stone and Fire"
ASIN: B00SF4PYH2
Published by Pro Se Press
Release date: January 2015
Retail Price: Kindle Edition $0.99

Cover: Jeffrey Hayes

BYZANTIUM: REBEL'S RUN continues I.A. Watson's original high-fantasy novellas set in a world where Christianity never swept the West and magic never died.

Defending a ragged caravan train across a war-torn landscape, hunted by imperial troops, deadly mages, and an undead horde, free-spirited Kirkgrim Carrionwake, stubborn Viking Sigroth Sigrothson, and neophte sorceress Mirabelle de Castile face with hard choices that all come with costs and dangers. What is in Lady Mirabelle’s mysterious message-casket that attracts so much attention? An unknown Necromancer raises up an army of dead men to hunt for it. A one-eyed mage commandeers bandits and elementals for the task. Soldiers of questionable alleigance and frightened guards seem more interested in the gold shipment travelling with the refugees, but canot leave witnesses to any theft alive. When innocent lives are at stake, how much must be sacrificed to do whatever Kirkgrim decides is the right thing?

"Byzantium: Rebel's Run"
ASIN: B01MYCJSOB
Published by Pro Se Press
Release date: January 2017
Retail Price: Kindle Edition $1.31

BYZANTIUM: GHOST ARMIES is the penultimate part of I.A.. Watson's novella series about a fantasy world where Christianity never swept the West and magic never died.

As her test to be elevated from apprentice to adept as a mage of the Invisible College, Lady Mirabelle de Castile is tasked with delivering a small sealed mahogany box to the Illuminati Chapter House in great Byzantium. The young Venetian’s journey is dogged with trouble from bandits, undead, and an interfering adventurous priest called Kirkgrim the Wanderer. The caravan train with which Mirabelle travels is endangered when civil war breaks out between Byzantine’s current ruler, Duke Sebastio, and usurper Baron Olderus.

Along with wild Viking Sigroth, caravan scout Fitz, his fighting truffle-pig Fred, and the effervescent Kirkgrim, Mirabelle must keep the travellers alive, and even add helpless refugees saved on the road. The caravan threads its way through peril, only escaping plunder and destruction through a final desperate dash to reach the relative safety of walled Corloy Waystation. But that Waystation is now surrounded Baron Olderus' rapacious troops, trapping Mirabelle and her road companions inside – for as long as they can keep the gathering soldiers at bay. And marauding soliders are not the worst thing stalking the mists beyond the fortress' crumbling walls...

"Byzantium: Ghost Armies"
ASIN: B07F62JLG4
Published by Pro Se Press
Release date: July 2018
Retail Price: Kindle Edition $1.30

BYZANTIUM: SHATTERED BONDS concludes I.A.. Watson's freewheeling fantasy adventure series set in a medieval dystopia where Christianity never swept the West and magic never died.

Dogged by a Necromancer of the Dead Name and his an army of the slain, attacked by bandits and revenants keen to plunder, the caravan of Padavas the Portly struggles to survive civil war and supernatural malice, preserved only by the most unusual of fellow-travellers travellers: pathfinder guide Fitz and his fighting truffle-pig, berserker Viking Sigroth Sigrothson, interfering wanderer Kirkgrim Carrionwake, priest of the Tuatha de Danaan of distant Albion, and the sorcerous Lady Mirabelle de Castile. But now new threats promise to make dire circumstances more deadly still. A slaver of the company proves the puppet of those who seemed his slaves, an imprisoned scholar is revealed as an old adversary, and an imperial pay-chest being transported to aid Byzantium’s hard-beset Duke Sebastio is a temptation to wagon guards and accompanying Imperial Dragoons alike.

And some of those on the road have secrets and plans of their own. Matriarch dowager Dame Anwith has loyalties to more than the oprhaned children she now keeps in her care. The monks of St Temensus undertake a mysterious pilgrimage on a holy quest. Imperial courier Rhodin by Thermi loses vital diplomatic papers. While Kirkgrim, Mirabelle, Sigroth, and Fitz fought a ghost army of undead, each of the plotters in the caravan determines that the time had come to make a move. The last leg of the road to Byzantium may be the last steps any of the travellers ever takes.

"Byzantium: Shattered Bonds"
ASIN: B07FZ65ZS3
Published by Pro Se Press
Release date: July 2018
Retail Price: Kindle Edition $1.30

Cover by Mike Fyles
Nominated Best Pulp Cover 2013

ZEPPELIN TALES

Romance and adventure take flight when disgraced Navy weatherman Finian follows mysterious blonde Verity on the deadly maiden flight of "Airship 27" in I.A. Watson's action science fiction novella from ZEPPELIN TALES What is the secret in Shed 13? What lies behind the strange sky phenomenon known as the fallstreak? Who plots the destruction of crew and ship alike? And what are the strange creatures that dwell beyond the clouds?

Airship 27 preview excerpt

"Zeppelin Tales"
ISBN 10: 061591554X  ISBN 13: 978-0615915548
Release date: November 2013
Produced by Airship 27
Retail Price: Paperback $16.99, Kindle $4.99
Audiobook from Radio Archives, read by Bob Kern

Cover: Jeffrey Hayes

WHERE STORIES DWELL
a collection of essays on tales and telling them by I.A. Watson.

Starring: The Duke of Marlborough, swashbuckler, soldier, adventurer, and ladies' man; Medea of Colchis, seductive sorceress and woman scorned; Eleanor of Aquitaine, the most powerful woman in Europe; Brutus Giantslayer, who overcame Gog and Magog to found a nation; William Paget, Earl of Uxbridge, and especially his right leg; Princess Enheduanna, High Priestess of the Moon Goddess Nanna; William the Conqueror, a bastard by name, birth, and nature; Sir Francis Dashwood, wicked master of the wicked Hell Fire Club; King Arthur Pendragon, rightwise born King of All Britain; Kings Henry II, IV, V, and VIII, who average to King Henry IV¾, plus a guest Edward; Rhodopis of the Stolen Slipper, a damsel in distress with familiar problems; Acting Major William Martin, a Royal Marine who died before he was ever born; Inspector-General James Barry MD, a military surgeon who never existed at all; Spring-Heeled Jack, fire-breathing iron-clawed terror of the night; The Lone Ranger and Tonto; with a full cast of gods, monarchs, smiths, Celts, Hussites, supervillains, sacrificial virgins, Londoners, knights, heretics, lighthouse-keepers, Methodists, spectral hounds, Loathly Ladies, pulp writers, revolutionaries, spies, and souvenir-vendors to match all tastes.

Sample chapters available here

"Where Stories Dwell"
ISBN 10: 1500666173
ISBN 13: 9781500666170
Published by Pro Se Press
Release date: July 2014
Retail Price: Paperback $15.00, Kindle $2.99
Audiobook from Radio Archives, read by Chiquito Joachim Crasto

  
Covers: Laura Givens   

Available from White Rocket Books and Amazon. Proceeds go towards The Hero Initiative charity

Cover: Mark Maddox   Interiors: Rob Davis

The popular continuation of the adventures of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s archetypal detective begins with SHERLOCK HOLMES: CONSULTING DETECTIVE Volume 1, which includes I.A. Watson’s “Dead Man’s Manuscript”

An old army comrade of Dr Watson’s commits a crime because a ghost told him to do it. Holmes and Watson must discover why a respectable war veteran might destroy a priceless document at the command of his dead father.

"Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective vol 1"
ISBN 10: 1-934935-50-6
ISBN 13: 978-1-934935-50-7
Produced by Airship 27
Current Edition Published by Airship 27
First Edition Published by Cornerstone Books
Release date: July 2010
Retail Price: Paperback $16.99, Kindle $4.99
$3 .pdf also available at The Airship 27 Hangar
Audiobook from Radio Archives, read by George Kuch

Cover: Ingrid Hardy  Interiors: Rob Davis
Nominated of Best Pulp Cover 2011

SHERLOCK HOLMES: CONSULTING DETECTIVE Volume 2 features two stories by I.A. Watson. In “The Problem of the Western Mail”, Holmes’ ennui during a scorching summer is temporarily lifted when a safe-load of payroll vanishes from a moving train. He faces the opposite problem in “The Last Deposit” when he must fathom how a dead girl appeared in the most secure vault of a well-guarded bank – and why. This tale was winner of Best Short Story, Pulp Factory Awards 2010, Nominated Best Short Story Pulp Ark Awards 2010

Cover: Brian McCullough
Interiors by Rob Davis 
Interiors: Rob Davis

SHERLOCK HOLMES: CONSULTING DETECTIVE Volume 3 includes I.A. Watson’s tale “The Lucky Leprechaun.” A wealthy businessman who has made his fortune selling temperance drinks vanishes at night from his locked country house. The only witnesses are his two young nieces – and they claim he was carried away by the fairies they meet in the woods. Holmes and Watson must unravel the strange code in the missing man’s scribbles, discover the secret of his enchanted gold, and stop the revenge of the leprechaun himself, before they too are sucked into madness and destruction.

"Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective vol 3"
ISBN 10: 1-613420-09-9
ISBN 13: 978-1-1-613420-09-6
Current Edition Published by Airship 27
First Edition Published by Golden Hammer Press
Release date: November 2011
Retail Price: Paperback $16.99, Kindle $4.99
$3 .pdf also available at The Airship 27 Hangar
Audiobook from Radio Archives, read by George Kuch

Cover: Chad Harding    Interiors: Rob Davis

SHERLOCK HOLMES: CONSULTING DETECTIVE Volume 4: In a Victorian England on the cusp of a new century, where the marvels of science will spur the Industrial Revolution to new heights of cultural wonder, the dark elements of humankind continue to worm their way through the streets of London and its surrounding countryside. Murder and mayhem remain and the work of Sherlock Holmes continues; his powers of deductive reasoning the crucial bulwark to stem this tide of villainy.

This anthology includes I.A. Watson's award-nominated Best Short Pulp Story 2013, "The Clockwork Courtesan", in which the prime suspect for a civil servant's brutal end is a mechanical music-box in the shape of a woman.

"Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective vol 4"
ISBN 10: 0615758231
ISBN 13: 9780615758237
Published by Airship 27
Release date: January 2013
Retail Price: Paperback $16.99, Kindle $4.99
$3 .pdf also available at The Airship 27 Hangar
Audiobook from Radio Archives, read by George Kuch

Cover: Mike Fyles    Interiors: Rob Davis

SHERLOCK HOLMES: CONSULTING DETECTIVE Volume 5 features "The Abominable Merridew", I.A Watson's tale of the lost Holmes villain mentioned but never detailed in the canon. But the great detective is not the only one hunting down a depraved killer. This time Holmes and Watson are being challenged by another investigative team - Professor Moriarty and Colonel Moran!

See the greatest minds of the Holmesian age at work as brutal murders, fiendish kidnappings, and gangland atrocities escalate, mere weeks before a fateful and final encounter at the Reichenbach Falls.

"Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective vol 5"
ISBN 10: 0615935818
ISBN 13: 978-0615935812
Published by Airship 27
Release date: December 2013
Retail Price: Paperpack $16.50, Kindle $4.99
$3 .pdf also available at The Airship 27 Hangar
Audiobook from Radio Archives, read by George Kuch

Cover: Pat Carabjal    Interiors: Rob Davis

SHERLOCK HOLMES: CONSULTING DETECTIVE Volume 6 features "The Case of the Counterfeit Watson", in which I.A Watson recounts the puzzling incident of the man in the lunatic asylum who claims be to the real Dr John Watson - even to Sherlock Holmes!

A woman births a monster that could have no human father. A quiet country physician cripples a village policeman. A house that was supposed to have burned down sixty years before reappears. And a lobotomy chair awaits the Great Detective.

One reviewer says of this volume: "IA Watson writes Sherlock Holmes as though channeling the spirit of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This tale is no exception. Reading it is like tasting a great Chef’s entre. There are layers of mystery within mystery until all comes together in one burst of flavor! A most welcome start and I give it five out of five stars!">

"Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective vol 6"
ISBN 10: 0692244948
ISBN 13: 978-0692244944
Published by Airship 27
Release date: June 2014
Retail Price: Paperpack $16.50, Kindle $4.99
$3 .pdf also available at The Airship 27 Hangar
Audiobook from Radio Archives, read by George Kuch

Cover: Michael Youngblood
Interiors: Rob Davis

SHERLOCK HOLMES: CONSULTING DETECTIVE Volume 7: Thick fog envelopes the streets of London. Nefarious agents set about their evil plots and schemes. Murder most foul rears its ugly head and baffling mysteries confound the good men of Scotland Yard. What recourse but to call upon the greatest Consulting Detective of them all, Mr Sherlock Holmes of 221B Baker Street?.

In another edition of the popular anthology series, I.A. Watson chronicles one of Holmes’ earliest cases investigating the murderous recurrence of the horrific Victorian bogeyman “Spring-Heeled Jack” – in the closely guarded military base at Aldershot Barracks!

"Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective vol 7"
ISBN 10: 0692387196
ISBN 13: 978-0692387191
Published by Airship 27
Release date: February 2015
Retail Price: Paperpack $16.50, Kindle $4.99
$3 .pdf also available at The Airship 27 Hangar
Audiobook from Radio Archives, read by George Kuch

Cover: Zachary Brunner
Interiors: Rob Davis

SHERLOCK HOLMES: CONSULTING DETECTIVE Volume 8: Another installment in the anthology series based upon the Canon of Holmes' investigations. I.A. Watson contributes "Mysteries of the Buried God", wherein a newly-uncovered Mithraic temple yields up two bodies: one murdered four hundred years ago inside a sealed room and another murdered yesterday.

This tale was shortlisted for Best Short Story, Pulp Factory Awards 2016

Airship 27 Productions’ managing editor, Ron Fortier says: “Ever since we started this series, our readers have clamored for more. Folks just can’t get enough of Holmes and Watson and their appeal never wanes. This particular collection has a genuine horror theme that runs throughout the two shorts and one novella. They are tales best read on a dark and lonely night.”

"Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective vol 8"
ISBN 10: 0692685154
ISBN 13: 978-0692685150
Published by Airship 27
Release date: April 2016
Retail Price: Paperpack $16.50, Kindle $4.99
$3 .pdf also available at The Airship 27 Hangar
Audiobook from Radio Archives, read by George Kuch

Cover: Zachary Brunner
Interiors: Rob Davis

SHERLOCK HOLMES: CONSULTING DETECTIVE Volume 9 - the multiple-award-winning anthology series goes on with four new adventures in the classic Doyle manner.

“The Adventure of the Failing Light” from I.A. Watson, recounts how the entire crew of a lonely lighthouse vanishes during a raging storm. At the dawn of the 20th century, Holmes and Watson travel to the wild Scottish isles to investigate the real-life mystery of what happened at the infamous Flannan Light.

Cover: Graham Hill
Interiors: Rob Davis

SHERLOCK HOLMES: CONSULTING DETECTIVE Volume 10 - a landmark in the long-running multiple-award-winning anthology series, featuring I.A. Watson's novella “The Affair of the Norwegian Sigerson”. Holmes is presumed dead, lost in struggle with Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. As Dr Watson attends his friend's memorial service, dark forces in the international criminal underworld lay their plans to lay claim to London's broken criminal empire. Meanwhile, in distant Montevideo, the deadly Colonel Sebastian Moran hunts the mysterious Sigerson to the opera house where the notorious soprano Irene Adler is offering her final performance.

"With this volume, our series reaches the same word-count as the original nine-book Canon," the author explains, "and so I assumed licence to delve somewhat into the missing years of the great detective's career. It turned out to be my favourite of all the Holmes tales I have penned."

A sample of "The Affair of the Norwegian Sigerson"

Cover: Laura Givens
Interiors: Rob Davis

SHERLOCK HOLMES: CONSULTING DETECTIVE Volume 11 - another visit to the golden age of Victorian detective investigations with the world's most famous mystery-solver. This volume includes I.A. Watson's “The Scotland Yard Murder”, based upon the real-life discovery of a woman's torso in the cellars of New Scotland Yard. Mere weeks after uncovering The Sign of Four and encountering The Hound of the Baskervilles, Holmes and Watson discover that horror and malice can strike even in their own back yard.

"The Scotland Yard Murder" was shortlisted for Best Pulp Fiction Short Story 2018 and the book shortlisted for Best Pulp Anthology 2018 in the Pulp Factory Awards.

I.A. Watson says about this story, "One form of detective literature that has matured since Conan Doyle's day is the forensic procedural. Sherlock Holmes was an early exponent of that method but, because that storyform had not yet developed at the time of his original adventures, we never saw him tackle a case so dependent upon interpreting the detail of corpse and crime scene, with the process of reconstructing events and uncovering a perpetrator. This tale gives us a chance to explore how Holmes and Watson would set about such an investigation."

Cover and Interiors: Rob Davis

SHERLOCK HOLMES: CONSULTING DETECTIVE Volume 12 - the popular award-winning anthology series continues with short story contributions from regular contributor I.A. WATSON. “The Nottingham Crackster” pits the world's greatest detective against the world's greatest con-artist as Holmes meets one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's more obscure early creations, the tricky, laughing, jewel-stealing Nottingham Crakster. In a new outrage, the wily criminal steals a valuable jem disguised as none other than Mr Sherlock Holmes himself.

Then the mood turns deadly serious in “The Hangman's Daughter” when a bride is discovered hanged in a church porch on the night before her wedding - the only child of London's former foremost public hangman! The executioner who ended the lives of Moriarty's henchmen, of Sir Grimesby Roylott, Woodley, Oldacre, and many other of Holmes' adversaries has made many enemies who might strike back at his innocent daughter, but which of the many dark figures from his past has reached out for such terrible vengeance now?

"The Hangman's Daughter" was shortlisted for Best Pulp Fiction Short Story 2018 in the Pulp Factory Awards.

Cover: Michael Youngblood
Interiors: Rob Davis

SHERLOCK HOLMES: CONSULTING DETECTIVE Volume 13 - Another in the popular anthology series of new stories of the famous Baker Street sleuth told in the manner of the original Canon. I.A. Watson's story, “The Woman Who Collected Queen Victoria”, pits Holmes against not one but three women who each claims to be a long-lost heiress to a possibly-murdered collection of royal memorabilia. But why would the Great Detective be instructed by a high government official not to take the case? And what happens when he decided to inviestigate anyhow?

I.A. Watson says about this story, "Holmes stories always require a certain amount of historical research, if only because new additions to his literature are historical stories when the original series was contemporary mystery. But this particular tale required a significant amount of digging into the more obscure trivia of a hundred years of scandal and rumour covering four seperate continents. I really enjoyed it, even if my namesake Dr Watson has his doubts."

Cover: Ted Hammond
Interiors: Rob Davis

SHERLOCK HOLMES: CONSULTING DETECTIVE Volume 14 - In a novella-length adventure set in the record snows of 1894, I.A. Watson reveals “The Adventure of the Frozen Irregular”. Former Baker Street Irregular Wiggins, now employed at the Diogenes Club, vanishes from Regent's Park during a mission for Mycroft Holmes. A corpse is cut from beneath the skating ice of the Serpentine. Dangerous angents of a foreign power stalk the blizzard. Can Holmes and Watson untangle secrets not even their own government want revealing before the lethal ice claims another victim?

This latest volume in the popular series also includes stories by David Friend, Raymond Lewis, and James Lovato, and illustrations by award winning Sherlockian artist Rob Davis.

Cover: Graham Hill
Interiors: Rob Davis

SHERLOCK HOLMES: CONSULTING DETECTIVE Volume 15 - Alongside anthology contributions by Gary Lovisi, Dexter Fabi, and Jonathan Casey, I.A. Watson reveals an account of the second case that Holmes and Watson investigated together, mere weeks after their meeting and the events of A Study in Scarlet. In “The Impossible Coin” the neophyte detective duo must discover how an absconded bridegroom, a bookmaker's leger, and the French Revolution are connected to a coin dated one year into the future.

In "The Lady On The Ledge", I.A. Watson recounts Holmes and Watson's endeavours to talk a would-be suicide away from destruction - by unravelling the plot in which she has become enmeshed, right there on the parapet's edge.

Cover and Interiors: Rob Davis

SHERLOCK HOLMES: CONSULTING DETECTIVE Volume 16
In The Adventure of the Anarchist's Apprentice, Holmes and Watson dip into the shady world of Bohemian radicals, urban assassin protestors, and deadly terrorists. After an explosion at the Greenwich Observatory and the destruction of a block of crowded townhouses, an internationally infamous bombmaker sets his sights on another prominent landmark, on a royal target - and on 221 Baker Street itself!

This volume also includes stories from Greg Hatcher and Lee Houston Jr.

Cover: Chris Rawding
Interiors: Rob Davis

SHERLOCK HOLMES: CONSULTING DETECTIVE Volume 17
In Legacy of the Nottingham Crakster, I.A. Watson returns to the obscure early Conan Doyle trickster character who delights in playing elaborate confidence tricks to confound as well as impoverish his targets. But this time Holmes and Watson are attending his funeral to comfort his bereaved sister - who turns out to have appeared in the Canon herself.

Cover and Interiors: Rob Davis

SHERLOCK HOLMES: CONSULTING DETECTIVE Volume 18 "These facts relate to the singular series of events which happened in connection with the vault at Christchurch, near the village of Oistin, on the south coast of Barbados."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle introducing the mystery of the Barbados Coffins
in “The Uncharted Coast - I. The Law of the Ghost”,
an article for The Strand Magazine, December 1919,
collected in The Edge of the Unknown (1930)

In sealed tombs around the world heavy lead coffins seem to move about by themselves, bringing fear and horror to bereaved loved ones and masking an international secret. In "The Adventure of the Restless Dead", I.A. Watson picks up on a factual article by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself on the real-life enigma and pits Doyle's famous detective against the mystery. Can Holmes and Watson fathom the plot before it is too late? And can they solve the crime whilst sealed tight inside one of those buried coffins?

This volume also includes stories from Michael A. Black and Raymond Louis Lovato.

Cover: Howard Simpson
Interiors: Rob Davis

SHERLOCK HOLMES: CONSULTING DETECTIVE Volume 19

The Great Detective and his amiable assistant confront four truly unique and bizarre mysteries in this volume. Each case will challenge Sherlock Holmes’ observation skills. From a trip to the Vatican to retrieve a "lost gospel" to unravel the death of a famous author, there is no rest for the two companions. A young Olympiad cyclist is murdered with an African Zulu spear while in the final entry, a cunning murderer uses well-known poems as clues to the next victim's identity. The game is afoot once again, with writers Ray Lovato, Jonathan Casey, and I.A. Watson providing the excitement and the thrills.

I.A. Watson's contribution to this volume is the whodunnit "The Quest For Guinevere."

Cover Design: Brian Belanger

THE MX BOOK OF NEW SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES - Part XIV: 2019 Annual (1891-1897)
I.A Watson's debut in the long-running MX Sherlock Holmes series is "The Fourpenny Coffin", wherein a charitable hostel for the down-and-out of London is troubled by a series of mysterious deaths - all in the same cheap bed. Holmes and Watson must race against time to uncover a terrible tragedy and an unnoticed murder before the Fourpenny Coffin claims yet another victim.

This volume also features stories and articles from twenty-seven Holmesian luminaries. Proceeds from sale support the Stepping Stones school and property at Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Undershaw estate.

Cover Design: Brian Belanger

THE MX BOOK OF NEW SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES - Part XVI: Whatever Remains . . . Must Be the Truth (1881-1890)
In "The Sussex Vampire", Holmes tells Watson: "This agency stands flat-footed upon the ground, and there it must remain. The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply" In each of the stories presented in this huge collection, Holmes approaches the varied problems with one of his favourite maxims firmly in place: ". . . . When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth . . . ." But what, exactly, is the truth?

This anthology features tales of Holmes’s encounters with seemingly impossible events – ghosts and hauntings, cults and curses, mythical beasts and mediums, angels and demons, and more. I.A Watson reveals the story of "The Giant's Wife", wherein a man is found dead at the site of a previous moorland encounter with phantom giants. Can Holmes and Watson unravel the mysteries of his haunted farm and discover the rational behind the insane?

All royalties from this collection are being donated by the writers for the benefit of the preservation of Undershaw, one of the former homes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Cover Design: Brian Belanger

THE MX BOOK OF NEW SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES - Part XX: 2020 Annual (1891-1897)
The popular series of additional canonically-compliant adventures continues with a new crop of mysteries and adventures from a score of modern Holmes chroniclers, plus additional articles and material.

I.A. Watson contributes "The Ransomed Miracle", in which an infant is kidnapped from a locked house despite all precautions. Sherlock Holmes can only save the babe by exposing the dark secrets of the house's occupants and the shames of the past - information that somebody is willing to kill to keep hidden.

All royalties from this collection are being donated by the writers for the benefit of the preservation of Undershaw, one of the former homes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Cover Design: Brian Belanger

THE MX BOOK OF NEW SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES - Part XXIII: Some More Untold Cases 1884-1894
"Somewhere in the vaults of the bank of Cox and Co., at Charing Cross, there is a travel-worn and battered tin dispatch box with my name, John H. Watson, M.D., Late Indian Army, painted upon the lid. It is crammed with papers, nearly all of which are records of cases to illustrate the curious problems which Mr. Sherlock Holmes had at various times to examine . . . ." - Dr. John H. Watson

In this anthology, I.A. Watson recounts "The Adventure of the Abducted Bard", in which a possible lost play by William Shakespeare is stolen and threatened with destruction.

All royalties from this collection are being donated by the writers for the benefit of the preservation of Undershaw, one of the former homes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Cover Design: Brian Belanger

THE MX BOOK OF NEW SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES - Part XXVI: 2021 Annual (1889-1897)
"Here, though the world explode, these two survive, And it is always eighteen-ninety-five." - Vincent Starrett in his poem "221b" (1942)

The long-running MX anthology series continues with another collection of traditional Canon-compliant Sherlock Holmes stories from twenty-one fiction writers and four essayists.

In "The Adventure of the Confestioners' Captives", I.A. Watson reveals how Holmes and Watson must avert an international disaster, uncover a historicn tragedy, and undertake a dangerous resuce mission - all whilst being tied to posts in a sweet factory.

All royalties from this collection are being donated by the writers for the benefit of the preservation of Undershaw, one of the former homes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Cover Design: Brian Belanger

THE MX BOOK OF NEW SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES - Part XXIX: More Christmas Adventures (1889-1896)
We often associate Sherlock Holmes with rolling London fogs or windswept moors, but our imaginations are equally comfortable picturing him before a roaring coal fire on a chilly winter's evening as the snow piles up outside and a mystery looms. This latest anthology of stories from Ian Ableson, Wayne Anderson, David Marcum, Gordon Linzner, Barry Clay, Derrick Belanger, Wayne Anderson, Harry DeMaio, Craig Stephen Copland, Matthew White, I.A. Watson, Paul Gilbert, Arthur Hall, Marcia Wilson, Margaret Walsh, Frank Schildiner, Dan Rowley, and Tracy J. Revels, with forewords by Nancy Holder, Roger Johnson, Steve Emecz, and David Marcum, tells a variety of stories of Holmes and Watson during the yule season.

I.A. Watson contributes "The Twelve Days", a complex puzzle based upon the famous Christmas song, wherein Holmes and Watson receive gifts which alert them to the nature of a series of murders. Can they unwrap the mystery in time to prevent further tragedy?

All royalties from this collection are being donated by the writers for the benefit of the preservation of Undershaw, one of the former homes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Cover Design: Brian Belanger

THE MX BOOK OF NEW SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES - Part XXXI: 2022 Annual (1875-1887)
Another slice of Holmesiana under the reliable editorial hand of David Marcum, featuring the talents of Sean Wright, John Lawrence, I.A. Watson, Kevin Patrick McCann, Arthur Hall, Tim Symonds, Tracy J. Revels, Susan Knight, Hal Glatzer, Thomas Burns, Geri Schear, David Marcum, Robert Stapleton, Gordon Linzner, David MacGregor, Terry Golledge, DJ Tyrer, Steven Herczeg, Dan Rowley, a poem by Kelvin I. Jones, and forewords by Jeffrey Hatcher, Roger Johnson, Emma West, Steve Emecz, and David Marcum.

I.A. Watson contributes "The Adventure of the Amateur Balloonist", in which a romantic liason inb a hot-air balkoon ends in murder, and there seems to be only one possibl;e suspect - the lady involved in the encounter. Holmes and Watson tackle their first "locked balloon" mystery.

All royalties from this collection are being donated by the writers for the benefit of the preservation of Undershaw, one of the former homes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Cover Design: Brian Belanger

THE MX BOOK OF NEW SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES - Part XXXV: However Improbable (1889-1896)
Holmes lives in a world of ineluctable logic, so when the seemingly supernatural occurs he is always required to bring that massive intellect to bear at its most impressive. This anthology contains contributions by M.J. Elliott, Paul Gilbert, David Marcum, Dan Rowley and Don Baxter, Sean M. Wright and DeForeest B. Wright, III, Jane Rubino, Arthur Hall, Tracy J. Revels, Alan Dimes, Geri Schear, Susan Knight, The Davies Brothers, Josh Cerefice, Mark Mower, Robert Stapleton, Charles Veley and Anna Elliott, Naching T. Kassa, Martin Daley, Kevin Thornton, and I.A. Watson, with a poem by Christopher James, and forewords by Nicholas Rowe, Roger Johnson, Emma West, Steve Emecz, and David Marcum.

I.A. Watson contributes "The Adventure of the Long Distance Bullet", in which a man is seen to be shot dead by his son who died that same day on the continent of Africa.

All royalties from this collection are being donated by the writers for the benefit of the preservation of Undershaw, one of the former homes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Cover Design: Brian Belanger

THE MX BOOK OF NEW SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES - Part XLIV, 2024 Annual 1889-1897

I.A. Watson contributes "The Disputed Debutante", in which two suitors at a society ball seemingly kill each other in a locked library duel over the object of their affections. Holmes, Watson - and the future Mrs Watson - must enter the world of high society and uncover what really happened.

This anthology also contains contributions by Stephen Herczeg, Paula Hammond, Tracy J. Revels, Tom Turley, Paul A. Freeman, Daniel Lenois, David Marcum, Marcia Wilson, Shane Simmons, David MacGregor, Arthur Hall, Naching T. Kassa, Susan Knight, Alan Dimes, DJ Tyrer, Mike Chinn, Jonathan Schneer, and Chris Chan, with a poem by Kevin Patrick McCann, and forewords by Daniel Stashower, Roger Johnson, Emma West, Steve Emecz, and David Marcum.

All royalties from this collection are being donated by the writers for the benefit of the preservation of Undershaw, one of the former homes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Cover: Sidney Paget
from "The Adventure of the Resident Patient" (1893)

SHERLOCK HOLMES AND DOCTOR WATSON - THE EARLY ADVENTURES Volume 2 - Editor David Marcum writes, "There is a persistent and incorrect idea, reinforced by countless film misrepresentations, that Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were always staid and dull British chaps of middle years (or older), with Holmes a spy, cranky, and impatient eccentric and Watson a white-haired and portly Boobus Brittanicus, a la Nigel Bruce. Students of the true and Canonical Sherlock Holmes know this to be a falsehood. [The present work] is an amazing collection of some of Holmes and Watson's fascinating cases that that occurred from their first meeting on January 1st 1881 to late December 1883, during those first three years in Baker Street, when Holmes was creating his unique profession of consulting detective, while Watson was still recovering from the war wounds he'd received in Afghanistan..."

I.A Watson's contribution, "The Adventure of the Substitute Detective", chronicles a time when Holmes is absent on one of his undercover investigations and Inspectors Gregson and Lestrade must refer to the great detective's flatmate for assistance with knotty and impossible problems. Can Dr Watson assist the Scotland Yard men to tackle robbery and murder? And is Holmes playing a longer game?

Cover Design: Brian Belanger

SHERLOCK HOLMES: STRANGER THAN FICTION
"Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent" - Sherlock Holmes, "A Case of identity"

The life of the Great Detective has included numerous experiences that can be described as strange. Within these pages are found thirteen stories which bring him into contact with a variety of famous literary characters for some of his stangest cases yet.

I.A. Watson provides "The Adventure of the Disappeared Darlings", wherein a family of three children dissapear from their nursery after speaking of an encounter with a children's legend known as Peter Pan.

Cover Design: Brian Belanger

AFTER THE EAST WIND BLOWS - WWI and Roaring Twenties Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, vol. 1
The last glimpse of Holmes and Watson offered by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle showed them on the eve of war in August 1914 - "the most terrible August in the history of the world". Even though "His Last Bow" was chronologically the end of the Canon, there are other cases to be revealed for the modern reader.

Cover Design: Brian Belanger

THE NEFARIOUS VILLAINS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES volume 2

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson! The names of the world’s greatest detective and his stalwart friend conjure up images of Victorian London, gaslit streets, hansom cabs, and dense fogs.
But there was more to the story than these heroes. There were the villains who dared to stand against them, carrying out their vile plans and evil schemes.

Who were these sinners, malefactors, and criminals? We only know the barest details, as provided to us from Watson’s pen in the very few sixty stories of the original Sherlockian Canon. Now, with this new volume from Belanger Books, we investigate further – into the lives and deeds and motivations of these Nefarious Villains of Sherlock Holmes.

In these two volumes are twenty four stories examining the best known villains – Professor Moriarty, for instance, and Colonel Moran, and Dr. Grimesby Roylott – and some others who might not be quite as famous, but who were just as vexing to the Detective and Doctor . . . names like Culverton Smith, Baron Maupertuis, and Abe Slaney.

Discover their histories and find out the events behind the stories that you think you know. Settle back for an exceptional Holmes anthology, and a walk along the Dark Side of the Canon .
I.A. Watson's story "The Adventure of the Great Mogul", set in the last days before the detective's retirement, features the return of the confidence man Count Negretto Sylvius and his haul of a lifetime.

"The Nefarious Villains of Sherlock Holmes volume 2"
ISBN 13: 979-8796611265
Published by Belanger Books
Release date: January 2022
Retail Price: Hardback UK £36.95 US $49.95 Paperback UK £18.95 US $24.95, Kindle UK £7.35 US $9.99

Cover: Luke Spooner, Interiors: Phillip Cornell

SHERLOCK HOLMES AND DOCTOR WAS NOT
As the cover blurb says: "Sherlock Holmes truly trusted but one person – Doctor John H. Watson – but in an ocean of infinite realities it must be possible that in some of them Holmes’s fellow tenant at 221B Baker Street could be some other doctor, from any page of history or the annals of literature! Come with us now as we peer into the bizarre and sometimes terrifying fates that await the Master Sleuth when his cases, his reputation, and his very fate rests in the hands, or claws, of some very different medicos!"

I.A Watson's "The Angel of Truth" chronicles an impossible meeting between the great detective and Elizabethan alchemist, scientist, and angel-hunter Dr John Dee, as the queen's own royal magician summons up a spirit of detection to help him solve an attempt to overthrow the monarch of England.

This volume also features stories and articles from Philip Cornell, Julie Ditrich, Ron Fortier, Nancy Holder, Rafe McGregor, Brad Mengel, Will Murray, Dennis O’Neil, Andrew Salmon, J. Scherpenhuizen, and Christopher Sequeira, with a foreword by Leslie S. Klinger.

Cover: Brian Bellanger

THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SOLAR PONS: TALES OF THE SHERLOCK HOLMES OF PRAED STREET - Editor David Marcum writes, “In the 1920's, college student August Derleth wrote to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, asking if any more Sherlock Holmes adventures were going to be published. Upon receiving a negative reply, Derleth decided to provide some of his own… He ended up introducing the world to Solar Pons and Dr. Lyndon Parker, living in London during the 1920’s and 1930’s. Pons solved crimes using deduction and ratiocination, often referring to Holmes as “The Master” or “My illustrious predecessor”. Since his first appearance, Pons has been a favorite with Sherlockians. Now, for the first time ever, the estate of August Derleth has authorized the first ever anthology of Solar Pons stories!”

“The Squirming Script” by I.A. Watson reveals Pons and Parker’s brush with August Derleth’s other great literary enthusiasm, the strange otherworld beings first mentioned in Lovecraft’s writings. Has the detective encountered some monstrous force from a place beyond sanity, or a mortal murder just as terrible and gruesome?

Royalties for this volume go to the Jan Stauber Grant Fund for the Beacon Society, which provides scholarships to educators, schools, and Sherlockian Scion societies.

Cover: Brian Bellanger

THE NECRONOMICON OF SOLAR PONS - August Derleth introduced the world to Solar Pons and Dr. Lyndon Parker in the 1920's. Pons, like Sherlock Holmes, solved crimes using deduction and ratiocination, often referring to Holmes as “The Master” or “My illustrious predecessor”. In the 1930's, Derleth coined the term "Cthulhu Mythos" to describe the weird fiction written by the writers in the Lovecraft circle. He wrote a number of tales including “The Mask of Cthulhu”, “The Trail of Cthulhu”, and “The Watchers Out of Time”. Now, for the first time ever, the estate of August Derleth has authorised a one of a kind anthology combining Derleth's Solar Pons, the Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street, with his Cthulhu Mythos and horror tales.

“The Adventure of the Drowned Genealogist ” by I.A. Watson begins with the fresh corpse of a family history researcher being discovered in an ancient grave, locked in an unbreakable embrace with a rotted skeleton, her lungs filled with seawater. Pons and Parker must venture into festering family secrets and sunken enigmas to discover horror at the heart of a mystery.

Cover: Jim Pitts

SHADMOCKS AND SHIVERS

As the back cover blurb says: "Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes, England's very own 'Prince of Chill', would have been 100 years old in 2019. In celebration of this, fourteen of the finest authors currently working in the supernatural tales oeuvre (and one poet) have come together to contribute new tales of The Monster Club, Clavering Grange, Temptations Unlimited, Madame Orloff, Vampires, Ghosts and of course Shadmocks. Chetwynd-Hayes himself is represented by one of his classic Francis St. Clare and Frederica Masters stories.

"Those who are already fans will be sure to enjoy this selection of genuinely creepy stories, all of which are seasoned with a taste of the trademark Chetwynd-Hayes humour. The many fans of the authors within will hopefully be encouraged to seek out the work of the master who inspired them all."

I.A. Watson's contribution is "Mister Begot's Bespoke Mantles", wherein a unique London outfitters shop has an unusual way of dealing with rude customers who do not make appointments.

Cover Art: Dave Elsey
Cover Design: Catherine Archer-Wills

DRACULA UNFANGED

An anthology of tales that imagine that the immortal Dracula was never a vampire but was still a montrous threat to humanity.

This dazzling exhibition of reality-flipping tales about a literary icon includes contributions by Ransay Campbell, Nancy Holder, Chrostopher Fowler, Jim Krueger, Lee Murray, Ron Fortier, Will Murray, and others.

I.A. Watson's concluding tale is "The House of Dracula", in which an attempt to renovate a Transylvanian fortress for the "vampire" tourist industry leads to discovery that Castle Dracula Has Risen From the Grave!

"Dracula Unfanged"
ISBN 13: 978-1-922556-69-1
Published by IFWG Publishing
Release date: June 2022
Retail Price: UK £14.99 US $17.26

OCCULT DETECTIVE QUARTERLY No. 5

"The Hall of Feasting was high and dark, lit by many-branched candlesticks. The drapes were wine red. The furniture was heavy mahogany. The murder victim was stretched out on the long dining table amongst the golden dishes, a thick wooden shaft protruding from his chest.

Lord Bloodthirst, master vampire, was dead. One of the people in his castle had killed him."

So begins "A Princess Calls", I.A Watson and Chelsea Vance's contribution to Ulthar Press' ongoing anthology journal of supernatural mystery. A royal detective is kidnapped to solve the murder of a lord of the undead in his stronghold tower. Can Princess Enchanté discover which of macabre guest did the deed? Who slaughtered the human captives in the cattle cells? And how can the abducted sleuth possibly avoid her promised, threatened reward of eternal unlife?

Cover: Roland Nikrandt

OCCULT DETECTIVE MAGAZINE No. 6

     “There is no such thing as ghosts,” the skeptic told Vinnie de Soth.
     “Um…” the jobbing occultist replied.
     “Any reports of such things are misperception or wilful deception. I’ll grant the psychological phenomenon of people in grief sometimes convincing themselves of life after death, but there is not and never will be a shred of evidence to support any actuality of so-called ‘phantoms’ and ‘spectres’.”
     “Er…” Vinnie responded. He raised a hand as if in class, but Zephraim Holst was not finished.
     “Not only is belief in such apparitions illogical and erroneous but it panders to the lowest denominator of human irrationality, contributing to the decline of respect for science and logic that so besets our society. In perpetuating that superstition you are actually harming the development of the human intellect.”
    “Okay,” Vinnie challenged. “Then why are you transparent?”

This edition is edited by John Linwood Grant and Dave Brzeski and and includes “The Phantom Skeptic”, an all-new adventure of Jobbing Occultist Vinnie de Soth

OCCULT DETECTIVE MAGAZINE #0

"Enochian sorcery in London’s alleys, the dust-tinged magicks of ancient Khem, and the horrors of an indifferent cosmos – these are the stories we offer. That first step over the threshold of a ruined Victorian mansion; the pounding hatred which surrounds you in a far-off jungle. The chill of a well-lit study, as you stare into your brandy; those last few words in the shadows, whispered by someone whose body is no longer their own… Occult Detective magazine brings you tales which are subtle and disturbing, and tales which reek of unnatural forces."

This issue is a massive (300 page plus) anthology of new and reprinted material, a sampler of the ongoing magazine designed to showcase the series. A free download (no registration required) is highly recommended.

I.A. Watson's tale of "Vinnie de Soth and the Vampire Definition"pits the Jobbing Occultist against some new undead who have a few things to learn before they can call themselves masters of the night.

Note for Vinnie continuity fans: This story, previously published in a hard-to-find anthology, is now inlcuded in the latest version of Vinnie de Soth, Jobbing Occultist, but for those who don't want to purchase a new edition of the volume, this download is an ideal way to keep caught up.

Cover: Stefan Keller

OCCULT DETECTIVE MAGAZINE No. 8

     “Actually,” Vinnie de Soth confessed, “I have never been probed.”
    Moomin looked sceptically at the young man in the scruffy jeans and faded Clannad T-shirt. “What, never?”
    “I try to avoid being abducted, generally,” Vinnie explained. “By aliens or anybody else. Especially family.”
     “It’s not abduction,” Mr Testable insisted. Fussy and fifty, he sipped weak Oxo broth from the plastic cup top of his thermos flask. “It’s a blessing of revelation.”
     “Like hell it is!” objected a middle-aged fat American who sat encircled by detection technology: cameras, vibration sensors, spectrometers, Geiger counter, orgone detector, and much more. “It’s prelude to invasion, buddy. It’s state-sponsored psychoterrorism, the co-option of the collective unconscious by capitalist meme-waves – the colonisation of our underthoughts. That and tubes up our asses.”
     “Everybody is looking for something,” Vinnie agreed with Moomin. “I’m looking for a missing woman called Carol Chanter. Do you know her?”

This edition is edited by John Linwood Grant and Dave Brzeski and and includes “Vinnie de Soth and the Saucer People”, an all-new adventure of Jobbing Occultist Vinnie de Soth

Cover Art: Sebastián Cabrol

OCCULT DETECTIVE MAGAZINE MYTHOS SPECIAL #1

Collecting fourteen stories inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft by writers such as by John Linwood Grant, William Meikle, James Bennett, Pete Rawlik, Nick Mamatas, Paula D Ashe, Bob Freeman, Tim Mendees, and Will Murray, this bumper volume covers a broad mix of horror and mystery tales from the edge of human experience and the borders of sanity.

"There are ancient things, Dr Appleby,” Mrs Enderlidge rasped in a voice quite different to her normal tones, “Things ancient and vast beyond our comprehension, from a time when the stars were different and giants ruled our Earth under alien skies. They are dead now, mere echoes that rake at the edges of our consciousness, beckoning us to madness. But they will not be dead forever. That is not dead which can eternal lie! I have read it. I have felt it."

I.A. Watson's "The Squirming Script" is a reimagining of his earlier story of that name, introducing Edwardian occult detectives A.H. Whitstable and Captain Ashworth as they investigate the bizarre death of a Moiscatonic University professor after his voyage to the South Pacific.

Cover: Jefferson Smith

ALL THESE SHINY WORLDS II

The 2017 ImmerseOrDie Anthology - Each year the "Immerse Or Die" team hand-picks 50 of today's top indie authors and asks them to submit a story in the SF or fantasy genres. Then a team of ruthless judges scours that ore and picks out the gems for rigorous editorial review anbd eventual publication. The result is All These Shiny Worlds II.

"Borrowed Lives" by I.A. Watson explores a future where the technolgy exists to temporarily place on person's mind into another's body - recreationally. What is it like to be a body-donor for the amusement of the rich and powerful? And what happens if one wakes up unexpectedly in the middle of a session when everybody thinks you are someone else?

"All These Shiny Worlds II"
Print edition forthcoming
ASIN: B072Q1WKVS
Release date: May 2017
Published by Creativity Hacker Press
Retail Price: Paperback $11.95, Kindle Free

Cover: Rob Davis

LEGENDS OF NEW PULP FICTION

Sixty-two authors and thirty-six artists are assembled in one bumper volume spanning 776 pages of the best genres and themes of modern pulp writing. This veritable who's who of contemporary pulp authors is produced as a benefit for New Pulp luminary Tommy Hancock.

I.A. Watson contributes "The Return of General George Washington or By The Robot’s Red Glare", where a giant forgotten war machine rises again to oppose a future-tyrant amd return the promise of freedom.

"Legends of New Pulp Fiction"
ISBN 10: 0692601139
ISBN 13: 978-0692601136
Published by Airship 27
Release date: December 2015
Retail Price: Paperback $25.99, Kindle $10.22
Audiobook (40 hours) from Radio Archives CD $158.98, Download $79.99

Cover: Carl Yonder

THE AMAZING HARRY HOUDINI

The world's most famous escape artist returns to pulp fiction in this new series of adventures. Ranging from fog-choked London to fin-de-siecle Paris and across Europe, Harry Houdini faces challenges and mysteries that only a showmn of his range and skill could ever survive.

This volume includes I.A. Watson's "Houdini and the Catacombs of Paris", in which ancient tunnels hold new menace in a deadly manhunt, a young woman is gambled and lost in a high-stakes card game, and a sybaritic cult of rich thrill-seekers want the unique pleasure of trapping Harry Houdini in a maze where the only release is death

"The Amazing Harry Houdini"
ISBN 10: 0692586563
ISBN 13: 978-0692586563
Published by Airship 27
Release date: November 2015
Retail Price: Paperback $16.99, Kindle $4.06
Audiobook from Radio Archives, read by Michael Sutherland

Cover: Brian P. Easton

OCCULT DETECTIVE MONSTER HUNTER: A GRIMOIRE OF ELDRITCH INQUESTS
Literary history is rich with great Occult Detectives. This volume seeks to honor and add to them as many of today's most talented Occult Detective authors offer their original tales. Steeped in tradition but with a modern edge, the first of two volumes presents 22 tales of monsters, magic and mystery investigated by those that book their trade by it.

"Vinnie De Soth and the Vampire Definition" introduces the down-on-his-luck jobbing occultist hero of I.A. Watson's forthcoming book and sets him against a new breed of undead that do not respect the traditions of their forebears. This is their error. Vinnie knows things. Splatter ensues.

An Interview With Vinnie de Soth

"Occult Detective Monster Hunter: A Grimoire of Eldritch Inquests"
ISBN 10: 1940344212
ISBN 13: 978-1940344218
Published by Emby Press
Release date: March 2015
Retail Price: Hardcover $24.99, Paperback $14.99, Kindle $3.99

Cover: Mike Fyles

THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SEMI DUAL features the return of pulp fiction's first occult detective. From his enthouse sanctum, the reclusive mystic known only as Semi Dual consults on cases where the bizarre and the impossible defy nayural solutions. Adventurous crime reporter Bryce finds the strange occultist an invaluable and dangerous asset in uncovering the darkest and deadliest mysteries of the big city..

In this anthology collection for the Pulp Obscura imprint I.A. Watson contributes “The Curse of Urania” – where a millionire's suicide is complicated when the millionaire's long dead wife seems to appeal to Semi Dual for help in uncovering the truth.

"The New Adventures of Semi Dual"
ISBN 10: 1511433353
ISBN 13: 978-1511433358
Published by Pro Se Press
Release date: April 2015
Retail Price: Paperback $9.00, Kindle $1.44
Audiobook from Radio Archives, read by Fred Wolinsky

Cover: Laura Givens   

PRIDE OF THE MOHICANS

The adventures of Hawkeye, Uncas, and Chingatchgook in the year before James Fennimore Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans, brought to life by four of the most celebrated names in adventure storytelling.

I.A. Watson's story, "The Fort of Skulls" sends the pathfinders east into brooding Miscatonic County – H.P. Lovecraft country – where a Redcoat stronghold has been built upon a burial ground of the extinct Misquas tribe. But when the trackers arrive with reinforcements for the troubled fort they find it deserted, save for an unknown intruder who leaves the flayed heads of his enemies for his next victims to find!

This tale won the Pulp Factory Award 2014 for Best Pulp Short Story of the Year.

"Pride of the Mohicans"
ISBN10: 0692202358
ISBN 13: 978-0692202357
Published by White Rocket
Release date: April 2014
Retail Price: Paperback $15.95, Kindle $2.45

Cover: Terry Pavlet   

THE MANY WORLDS OF ULYSSES KING

Professor Ulysses King and his companions travel the foldspace between alternate realities to thwart nefarious history-twisting plots from his homeworld Olympus. With Amazonian arena-warrior Pandora, out-of-his-depth reporter Jake Gannon, marked-for-death scientist Crystal Lee, and worlds-spanning travel machine NotTA, King faces those who regard humanity as test subjects, cannon fodder, raw material, or mere entertainment. But there are dangers in foldspace of which neither King nor his enemies are yet aware - those who seek absolute control!

This anthology includes I.A. Watson's story, "Absolute Control".

"The Many Worlds of Ulysses King"
ISBN 10: 1497379539
ISBN 13: 978-1497379534
Published by CreateSpace
Release date: April 2014
Retail Price: Paperback $12, Kindle $2.77
Audiobook from Radio Archives, read by Joe Formichella

Cover by Malcolm McClinton

THE SPIDER: EXTREME PREJUDICE, a new anthology of hard-boiled crimefighting tales from Moonstone Books

Extreme sworn enemy of crime, The SPIDER clashes against super-criminals whom no one else can handle.

More just than the law, more dangerous than the Underworld...hated, feared, wanted by both. He remains one step ahead of the law in his endless crusade to destroy the human vipers that nest in our society.

In "Prey of the Mask Reaper" I.A. Watson recounts how the Spider and mysterious rival vigilante Black Bat must collaborate to tackle a sadistic enemy who is sytematically destroying mystery men and women and those they love - and who has targeted Spider and Black Bat next!

"The Spider: Extreme Prejudice"
ISBN 10: 1936814463  ISBN 13: 978-1936814466
Release date: July 2013
Edited by Joe Gentile and Tommy Hancock
Published by Moonstone Books
Retail Price: Paperback $15.59, Kindle $3.58, Hardcover currently out of print

Image © licensed from Clipart.com
Design by Terrence McCauley

GRAND CENTRAL NOIR

Released to celebrate the centenary of New York's palatial Grand Central Rail Terminal, this Amazon bestseller collection includes stories by Ron Fortier, Matt Hilton, Terrence P McCauley, and other pulp fiction luminaries.

I.A. Watson's contribution is "Lost Property", wherein a thug loses his loot, a traveller loses his auntie's hat, and a lonely young luggage checkout clerk will lose her heart - and maybe her life!

Proceeds from this anthology are donated to the New York charity God's Love We Deliver, which works to feed and house the homeless and people in extreme poverty.

"Grand Central Noir"
ASIN No: B00DFA32KM 
Release date: June 2013
Edited by Terrence P McCauley
Published by Metropolitan Crime Publishers
Retail Prince Kindle $2.99

Cover by Eric Johns

MONSTER EARTH

Welcome to MONSTER EARTH, a world where the Cold War was fought not with the threat of nuclear destruction, but with Giant Monsters. Watch as the denizens of this Earth that might have been learn to harness the power of these legendary creatures for good and ill.

I.A. Watson's Best Short Pulp Story-shortlisted contribution, Famous Monsters of World War II, or Happy Birthday Bobby Fetch, recounts the well-known incident where the terrible Japanese tentacle-beast Kraakus attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, and outlines the exploits of two courageous youngsters who are the only people able to stand against the unstoppable creature that might turn the course of the war.

"Monster Earth"
ISBN 10: 0615753469
ISBN 13: 978-0615753461
Release date: January 2013
Edited by Jim Beard and James Palmer
Retail Price: Paperback $14.95, Kindle $2.99

Cover by Bryan Fowler

SINBAD: THE NEW VOYAGES

The greatest seafaring adventurer of all times returns to the high seas! From the pages of The Arabian Nights, the swashbuckling explorer sails off to new adventure.

This high-impact volume includes I.A. Watson's award-nominated Sinbad and the Sapphire of the Djinn, featuring clockwork monsters, a prince of thieves, a princess of Bagdad, history's greatest alchemist, a magical airship, and, of course, the mighty and terrible djinn.

Preview from Sinbad and the Sapphire of the Djinn

"Sinbad: The New Voyages"
ISBN 10: 0615695892 
ISBN 13: 978-0615695891
Release date: September 2012
Published by Airship 27
Purchase from Amazon Retail Price: Paperback $16.99, Kindle $4.52
$3 .pdf also available at The Airship 27 Hangar
Audiobook from Radio Archives, read by Jem Matzan

Cover: Pat Carabjal    Interiors: Phil Cho

SINBAD: THE NEW VOYAGES volume 4
continues the ocean-spaning adventures of Arabian legend's most famous swashbuckler and his eclectic, eccentric crew.

I.A. Watson's story, "Sinbad and the Rakshasa's Game" pits the imprisoned sailor against a Rakshasa demon of Indian myth and a beautiful princess who must defeat him at the villain's games or die. Can Sinbad manage the impossible, defeat a master of illusion, rescue a kidnapped damsel, and escape the Tower of Bones, or will he be devoured like many travellers before him?

One guess.

"Sinbad: The New Voyages volume 4"
ISBN 10: 0692336036
ISBN 13: 978-0692336038
Published by Airship 27
Release date: November 2014
Retail Price: Paperback $16.99, Kindle $4.61
$3 .pdf also available at The Airship 27 Hangar
Audiobook from Radio Archives, read by Arch Stanton

Cover by Mike Fyles, design by Sean Ali

Reviving the classic African adventurer from the Golden Age of Pulp, ARMLESS O'NEIL: BLOOD PRICE OF THE MISSIONARY'S GOLD introduces a whole new audience to hook-handed O'Neil's dangerous world of lost treasures, merciless mercenaries, sudden danger, and jungle adventure. I.A. Watson pens the title story, Blood Price of the Missionary's Gold, in which O'Neil must save a beautiful missionary's daughter from the marauders who hunt both her and a fortune in lost blood-gold - and the vital clue is a recipe for monkey stew!

"Armless O'Neil: Blood Price of the Missionary's Gold"
ISBN 10: 1477651306  ISBN 13: 978-1477651308
Release date: June 2012
Published by Pro Se Publications' Pulp Obscura imprint
Retail Price: Paperback $12.00, Kindle $2.87
Other format e-versions available at Smashwords
Audiobook from Radio Archives, read by Troy Cunningham

Cover: Mike Fyles

Donald E Keyhoe’s airman detective debuted in FLYING ACES Magazine in the 1930s. Now the millionaire flyboy G-Man is back in THE NEW ADVENTURES OF RICHARD KNIGHT, first in the Pulp Obscura imprint of revived classic pulp characters.

In “The Hostage Academy”, I.A. Watson recounts the events around a series of supposed air crash deaths and the sinister organisation that turns them to its advantage. When Knight’s girlfriend is amongst those presumed dead there is nothing he will not do to discover the truth – and to take his revenge!

"THE NEW ADVENTURES OF RICHARD KNIGHT"
ISBN 10: 1469986787
ISBN 13: 978-1469986784
Published by Pro Se Press
Release date: January 2012
Retail Price: Paperback $12.00, Kindle $2.78
Other format e-versions available at Smashwords
Audiobook from Radio Archives, read by Pete Milan

Cover: Jeffrrey Ray Hayes for Plasmafire Graphics
Interior Art: Rob Davis

GIDEON CAIN: DEMON HUNTER (Revised and Expanded Edition)

Fully revised and expanded edition! More than 400 pages! Fourteen stories of Sword and Sorcery! One complete saga, start to finish!

Flintlock pistols and mortuary sword in hand, dour Puritan warrior Gideon Cain has departed Salem and its insidious witch trials, in pursuit of the demon Azazel. Now he wanders the earth, battling evil on land and sea, in whatever shape it appears. His sacred mission: mete out justice, aid the oppressed--and send the demon back to Hell!

Co-created by the legendary Kurt Busiek (Dark Horse's Conan and nominated for numerous New Pulp awards, this new edition doubles the story count from the earlier version, along with interior illustrations by Rob Davis and a gorgeous new cover painting by Jeff Hayes. It's classic evil-smiting action and adventure at its best!

Includes the classic Cain stories by: Scott Harris-King, K.G. McAbee, James Palmer, Van Allen Plexico, I. A. Watson, David Wright, and Brian Zavitz.

And includes all-new Cain stories by: Mark Bousquet, Alan J. Porter, Trace Shelton. Aaron Smith, and I.A. Watson.

And concluding with the brand-new, double-length climax to the saga, “The Navel of the World: The Last Gideon Cain Story,” written by Cain co-creator Van Allen Plexico!

“Sword and sorcery doesn't get any better than this!” --Pulp Fiction Reviews

I.A. Watson’s account of “The Girl in the Glass Coffin” was Nominated Best Short Story in both the Pulp Factory Awards 2010, and Pulp Ark Awards 2010.

"Gideon Cain: Demon Hunter (Revised and Expanded Edition)"
ISBN 13: 979-8836435004
Published by White Rocket Books
Release date: November 2022
Retail Price: Paperback US $17.95, Hardback forthcoming

Cover: James Burns  Interiors: Chris Kohler

A betrayed soldier from the present awakes on post-apocalyptic Mars. With a genetically-engineered Mock Man and a sorceress princess he must rise to be a champion in a world ruled and ravaged by scientist mages. BLACKTHORN: THUNDER ON MARS mixes the styles of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Jack Kirby to create a vibrant alien world of passion, action, and intrigue.

In “The Ghosts of Acheron”, I.A. Watson reveals what lies in the valley that even the science-mages fear to enter. This tale received nominations for two best short story awards.

"Blackthorn: Thunder On Mars"
ISBN 10: 0984139265
ISBN 13: 978-1- 0984139265
Published by White Rocket Books
Release date: December 2011
Retail Price: Paperback $15.95, Kindle (with additional material) $3.81

Cover: Danny Wall

Van Allen Plexico’s popular Sentinels superhero adventure series includes one volume of “guest authors”. I.A. Watson’s (very short) story in SENTINELS: ALTERNATE VISIONS is "Worst Origin Ever", in which a young woman in a comic-book store discovers the downside of having super-powers.

The volume also includes tales from Van Allen Plaxico, Adrian J Watts, David Wright, Wayne Skiver, Ron Fortier, Bobby Nash, and David Wright

"Sentinels: Alternate Visions"
ISBN 10: 0578011204
ISBN 13: 978-0578011202
Published by White Rocket Books
Release date: February 2009
Retail Price: Paperback $9.39

A listing of publications that contain works by I.A. Watson but are no longer in print or available online  

"I've got to tell you the truth about Mr Caplin's insurance claim"

PLANETARY STORIES #18 featured “Loss Adjustment”, wherein an insurance claims inspector investigates a car allegedly damaged by aliens. He didn’t expect to find a firsthand witness who wasn’t human.

Produced by Planetary Stories
Release date: February 2011

Free online: Loss Adjustment

"What would we do if we saw them, Harry?"

WONDERLUST #8 included “Rostherne: A Tale of Ghost Hunting” in which a young couple maintain their annual Hallowe'en vigil at a ruined priory where a tale of forbidden love once played out.

Produced by Planetary Stories
Release date: June 2012

Free online: Rostherne

“Sometimes it happens that a tulpa turns sour. Very rarely a Meh-Teh slips too far into being and rampages across the mountains, stealing livestock or even children, raping women, doing terrible things. Mi-go, the local people call them them, wild men. Then we must focus our efforts on uncreating the creature, disassembling it so it is no more and cannot return, pushing it back into the void from which it was first drawn”

WONDERLUST #8 also featured “The Tulpa” in which Tibetan secrets do not mix well with Western experience.

Produced by Planetary Stories
Release date: June 2012

Free online: The Tulpa

“We got out the mud and the bloodstains. And the regret and the betrayal, though those are harder to sponge off. Now we have to try and patch it. Special order. We don’t ask customers’ names here. We just do laundry.

WONDERLUST #12 featured “Mr Lye's Laundry of Doom” in which a young woman with a past works off an unusual pennance.

Produced by Planetary Stories
Release date: November 2013

A revised version of this story appears in Vinnie de Soth, Jobbing Occultist

Free online: Mr Lye's Laundry of Doom

Cover: Sean E. Ali   

"Robin Hood and the Maiden of the Tower" in PRO SE PRESENTS: Winter/Spring 2014

"Pro Se Presents: Winter/Spring 2014"
ISBN 10: 1496001478
ISBN 13: 978-1496001474
Published by Pro Se Press
Release date: February 2014
Retail Price: Paperback (out of print) $9, Kindle still available at $1.19

"The Maiden of the Tower" is also included in Robin Hood: Forbidden Legend

Cover: Rob Davis

"Robin Hood and the Slavers of Whitby" in PULP SPIRIT MAGAZINE #14 offered another adventure for the cast of I.A Watson’s award-winning Robin Hood series (detailed above).

Robin’s old flame, Clorinda, Queen of the Shepherdesses, calls for help when her people are enslaved by the Sheriff of Nottingham to mine precious jet from the Whitby sea-cliffs. Robin must take on the dangerous rescue mission – with Marion along to watch him.

Produced by Planetary Stories
Release date: 1st February 2012

Free online: Robin Hood and the Slavers of Whitby
This story is included in Robin Hood: Forbidden Legend

Cover: Will Meugniot

ALL STAR PULP COMICS #2 was an anthology of graphic illustrated stories from Airship 27 and Rosebud Studios. It included Robin Hood: Lionheart's Gold written by I.A. Watson and illustrated by Rob Davis. Proceeds from the first six months' sales of this volume were donated to the Boston Red Cross.

With King Richard imprisoned for ransom in Europe, his mother the manipulative Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine vies with his ambitious brother Prince John to control the vast treasure that could free the Lionheart or condemn him to perpetual imprisonment - and Robin Hood is caught in the middle of the fight!.

"All-Star Pulp Comics #2"
Release date: May 2013
Edited by Ron Fortier and Rob Davis
Published by Airship 27 and Rosebud Studios
"Lionheart's Gold" in included in Robin Hood: Forbidden Legend

Cover: Mark Bousquet, based on a Logoist template

STRANGE AND COZY includes I.A. Watson's "Murder at Barrowbrocks: The Last Case of the Mystery Solvers"

Ten years ago, the “Mystery Solvers” were nosy undergraduates who butted in to solve crimes. Then real life caught up with them: romantic failures, political ambition, career successes and failures, substance abuse problems, and all the rigours of the post-university world. The eight once-firm friends have not all met together for a decade until they are summoned by their college mentor, Professor Fairfax, who has something important to show them.

Snowbound at the Professor’s rural manor of Barrowbrocks the unthinkable happens: Fairfax is found murdered - and one of the Mystery Solvers is the murderer. While the bleak Yorkshire winter prevents even telephone calls for aid, Fairfax’s students must discover what happened in the twenty-four hours since their arrival. Who ransacked the library, and for what? Where did model Amanda get her bruises? Who changed the combination to the house safe? What became of the lab monkey? How did the Professor’s body come to be lying in virgin snow on the opposite side of the house to his broken study window?

And, of course, there’s the question, “What is the proper end for a murder mystery?”

"Strange and Cozy"
ISBN 10: 1515296946
ISBN 13: 978-1515296942
Published by Space Buggy Press
Release date: August 2015
Currently out of print

Free Online Fiction from I.A Watson:  

Rostherne – A romantic tale of midnight ghost-hunting

The Crusade – An account of two of the the thousands of children who set to convert the Holy Land in the 13^th century; written for a children’s charity appeal

The Never-Ending Battle – A Superman fan finds a real-life rescue is very different from the comic books

The Wedding Wake – When a groom is murdered by enemy clansman on the eve of his wedding he still expects to have his wedding night

Before Dawn – A different account of the familiar Easter story

Rescue Me – A bold knight rescues a beautiful princess from a terrible dragon, but his troubles are only just beginning.

The Tulpa – in which Tibetan secrets do not mix well with Western experience.

The First Day of the Rest of Their Lives – Written as a wedding gift, this story details a strange honeymoon encounter with some important advice.

An Interview With Vinnie de Soth – A Jobbing Occultist attempts to explain his work. Badly.

Mr Lye's Laundry of Doom – Pity the people who have to eradicate the stain of evil - literally.
A revised version of this story appears in Vinnie de Soth, Jobbing Occultist

"Vinnie de Soth and the Vampire Definition" from Occult Detective Magazine, #0 - Undead and deliquent, with a lot to learn.

Vinnie De Soth and the Blood Superior" - A cursed sticking plaster can be a gory business.

Robin Hood excepts and stories: 

Arrow of Justice – A bold outlaw has an encounter that will change the course of his life.

Freedom's Outlaw – Marauders on the Worksop road and the taxmen who come to Scaftworth discover their deeds do not go unpunished.

The Slavers of Whitby – The Sheriff will get rich from forced labour in his jet mines - except that Robin Hood objects.
A story from the anthology Robin Hood: Forbidden Legend

Other Samples: 

The Sixth Labour: Chasing Off the Stymphalian Birds - A standalone chapter from the novel Labours of Hercules

An account by Dr John H. Watson of his meeting with American impresario Mr Martin Beck, managing agent of Mr Harry Houdini - An excerpt from the novel Holmes and Houdini

Sometimes a Princess Has To Die - An excerpt of Hesione's tale from Women of Myth

The Affair of the Norwegian Sigerson - An excerpt from I.A Watson's novella in Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective vol. 10

Bulldog Drummond - On Poisoned Ground - Opening chapters from I.A Watson's novel featuring Sapper's iconic adventurer

The Girl in the Glass Coffin – Puritan adventurer Gideon Cain encounters a ghost bride and a dark secret.
An extract from the anthology Gideon Cain, Demon Hunter

Where Stories Dwell – Sample chapters from I.A. Watson's essay anthology.

People looking for additional good material might want to browse the websites of these publishers and creative colleagues:

   PUBLISHERS:

   Airship 27

   Belanger Books

   Chillwater Press

   Cornerstone Books

   Creativity Hacker Press

   Emby Press

   IFWG Publishing International

   Mechanoid Press

   Moonstone

   Pro Se Productions

   Space Buggy Press

   White Rocket Books

   CREATORS:

   3 Creative People (Nancy Hansen, Roger Stegman, Lee Houston Jr.)

   Aaron Smith

   Adam Garcia

   Alex Segura

   Amber Love

   Andrea Judy

   Andrew Nette (Pulp Curry)

   Anthony Taylor

   Armand Rosamilia

   Barbara Doran

   Barry Reese

   Beau Smith

   Beau Smith's Busted Knuckles

   Bill Craig

   Bill Cunningham

   Bobby Nash (and at BEN Books)

   Carole Parker (That Killing Feeling)

   Charles Boeckman

   Christa Faust (Blog)

   Christa Faust (Website)

   Christopher Mills

   Chuck Miller

   Chuck Wendig

   Corrina Lawson

   D. Alan Lewis

   Dan Jolley

   David Boop

   Derrick Ferguson (and Ferguson Ink and his Patreon)

   Don Gates

   Douglas Klauba

   Drew Geraci

   Duane Spurlock

   Ed Erdelac

   Elizabeth Donald

   Ellie Raine

   Erik Burnham

   Francesco Francavilla (Art Blog) and (Pulp Sunday)

   Gail Simone

   Geoff Habiger & Coy Kissee

   Gordon Dymowski

   Guns, Gams, and Gumshoes (Colleen Collins and Shaun Kaufman)

   Howard Simpson (Abba Studios)

   I.A. Watson

   Jack Mackenzie

   James Tuck

   James Tuck (Word Whores)

   Jeff Austin

   Jeffrey R. McDonald

   Jilly Paddock

   Jim Beard

   John Hartness

   John Linwood Grant (Greydogtales)

   June Casagrande

   Kelly Sue DeConnick

   Kevin Rodgers

   L. Andrew Cooper

   Lee Houston Jr.

   Lisa M. Collins

   Mark Bousquet

   Mark Maddox

   Martin Powell

   Mat Nastos

   Matt Adams

   Matthew Bieniek

   Michael Gordon

   Morgan Fitzsimons

   Nancy Hansen

   Neil Gaiman

   Paul Bishop

   Paul Storrie

   Percival Constantine

   Pete Miller

   Rachel Hunter

   Ralph L. Angelo Jr.

   Retta Bodhaine

   Richard Lee Byers

   Rob Davis

   Robby Hilliard

   Rock Baker

   Roland Mann

   Ron Fortier

   Samantha Lienhard

   Sarah Beach

   Scott McCullar

   Sean Taylor

   Selah Janel

   Stefan Petrucha

   Stephen Antczak

   Stephen Zimmer

   Steve Niles

   Van Allen Plexico (White Rocket)

   Wayne Reinagel (Nightraven Studios)

   Wilfredo Torres