In order to help celebrate the upcoming publication of my big novella and story collection, Hazardous Imaginings: The Mondo Book of Politically Incorrect Science Fiction, I’ve put out a hugely entertaining Sherlock Holmes zombie mystery story, “Watson Has Killed Me, Alas”, as a 99-cent Kindle short.
Famed detective Sherlock Holmes undertakes a life-and-death mission in the British Raj, responding to reports of a “ghϋl plague” that turns its victims into zombies who crave living flesh. Loyal Watson arrives in India first, where a malignant Chinese mastermind arranges for his zombification. An unsuspecting Holmes falls victim next. Then it is up to the indomitable Holmes, in a race against time, to locate the villain and a possible antidote. But can a weakening Sherlock Holmes, losing more of his intellect every day, hope to prevail against Dr. Lòng Huòshèng, known as the Victorious Dragon — the shadowy villain who may be the infamous Dr. Fu Manchu?
