Assignment Two, Vacation Necronomicon School: “A Study in Emerald”.
“Today’s assignment […] Neil Gaiman’s “A Study in Emerald”, [a] story that combines the Cthulhu mythos with the world of Sherlock Holmes […] discuss any aspect of this story you’d like …”
The story is available free online as a PDF (direct PDF link). It is also available for the Kindle ereader on Amazon’s Kindle store, as part of Gaiman’s collection Fragile Things.
For those who prefer audio books, there’s a professionally produced audio book edition on Audible with excellent British accent-work. Until recently this one-hour audio book was free, and it may still be floating around the Web in that form — but it now has a price-tag of $4.30. Also available from various sources are the audio book versions (CD, download, Audible) of Gaiman’s collection Fragile Things, which includes the same reading of the story.
The cheapest way to obtain the story in print form is a used copy of Gaiman’s Fragile Things collection, which can be had used from Amazon for about $4 including shipping. The story is also available in print in the mixed-author Shadows over Baker Street anthology of Lovecraft / Sherlock Holmes mash-ups, and this may be a better purchase for Lovecraft fans.
The Angelus Theatre adapted and performed “A Study in Emerald” in what appears to have been a substantial stage play, 29th May 2010. There appears to have been no graphic novel or animated adaptation, as yet.
Completed assignment: (as a PDF)
The Case of the Purloined Prose
