A Study in Emerald (Fiction)
This article is about the short story. For other uses of A Study in Emerald, please see A Study in Emerald (Disambiguation)
Details
Year: 2003
Pages: 9 (in PDF format); 24 (in Shadows Over Baker Street hardcover)
Author(s): Neil Gaiman
Artist(s): Jouni Koponen (PDF format only)
Appears in: Shadows Over Baker Street, Fragile Things, and The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Summary
A Sherlock Holmes story set in an alternate Victorian England after the Great Old Ones have taken over.
Comments / Trivia
Neil Gaiman has made this story available as a free download from his web site (see link below.) The story is in PDF format and is formatted to look like an old-time newspaper.
Although the story itself does not mention any dates, the newspaper-style formatting of the PDF shows the date as 1914.
"A Study in Emerald" won the 2004 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, and the 2005 Locus Award for Best Novelette.
Links
Link to outside reviews or helpful pages.
Spoilers
Nope, not gonna do it. You'll just have to read the story yourself.
Synopsis
There's a pretty good synopsis of "A Study in Emerald" at Wikipedia, which you'll find a link to in, unsurprisingly, the links section.
References
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Watson, Inspector Lestrade
Creatures: Unique to this story
Tomes and Artifacts: None
Locations: London, England
Campaigns / Scenarios: None
Keeper Comments
Because this story uses an alternate historical setting, any Call of Cthulhu game based on this story or using this setting would have to be a standalone campaign or scenario. It would not be possible to fold this story or setting into a standard Gaslight-era or Classic-era campaign.
Keep general DISCUSSION on the talk page.
