From Deerstalker Hat to Black Wool Overcoat: Timelessness in Sherlock Holmes’ Speculative Stories and Drama

This review contains spoilers. BBC’s Sherlock is  my favorite TV series. The 2012 reboot of the Victorian detective solving mysterious crimes retains the curious aura of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s story. Brain-twisting crime plots, breathtaking adventures, devilish Moriarty, eccentric yet intelligent Sherlock—all of the exciting elements that led to the success of The Adventures ofContinue

Shall we Speculate if Sherlock is Speculative?

Gothic Horror at its finest: vendettas carried on generation after generation heralded only with seeds sent to the victim in the mail, a luminous evil stalks a Victorian gentleman over the mist-covered downs, snakes slide down into unsuspecting ladies’ beds at the bidding of a cruel stepfather… Sounds like the stuff speculative fiction (specifically horror)Continue