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AmadanNaBriona
May 19th, '10, 10:33 PM
So, I was doing a bit of surfing on TVTropes and stumbled across a mention of a story, one that I think can/could be terribly useful for certain types of games (Wold Newton-verse, Pulp, Steampunk, and Horror all come to mind).

Unfortunately, I can't find ANY other references to this particular story online.

Anyhoo, the title is The Peculiar Mating Habits of Wasps, and the premise, as I understand it is as follows...

Dr. Watson notices Sherlock Holmes doesn't have an alibi for any of the Ripper murders. Upon further probing he discovers that, yes, in fact Holmes IS Jack the Ripper. Although he's not so much "murdering" the women as much as "Removing the alien creatures that have been implanted in them".

I'm probably incorporating this into the time-line of my Pastiche setting in any case, but I'd really like to find it.

Anyone got any bright ideas where said story might be found?
BlueCloud2k2
May 19th, '10, 11:50 PM
Have you tried Googling it? Other than that, I'd say Wiki *Shrug*
AmadanNaBriona
May 20th, '10, 12:03 AM
Have you tried Googling it? Other than that, I'd say Wiki *Shrug*

yep.
Recursive search, only thing I found was the source where I first found it.
John Desmarais
May 20th, '10, 09:26 AM
The was a collection of short-stories called Sherlock Holmes in Orbit that I read about a decade ago (Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg were involved). It sounds vaguely like one of the stories in it.
Escafarc
May 20th, '10, 09:44 AM
There was a Outer Limits('90s version) story with Jack targeting alien possesed humans.
lemming
May 20th, '10, 11:45 AM
I read it a long time ago. I'm going to go check my book shelves.
Tasha
May 20th, '10, 04:04 PM
Here's a story on Baen's free library It's a mix of Lovecraft and Holmes.

http://www.webscription.net/10.1125/Baen/F1597801607/F1597801607.htm

Selections-from-the-improbable-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes (http://www.webscription.net/p-1184-selections-from-the-improbable-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes.aspx) The link to the page where you can Download the whole book for free on Baen book's Website..

If that's not it, there's other stories in the anthology that might match.

Tasha