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Title: Penumbra (Winter Special)
Author: saki101
Rating: R
Characters and Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Sherlock/John, Mrs Hudson, Mrs Turner, Wiggins, Greg Lestrade, Mycroft Holmes, Molly Hooper, OCs
Word Count: ~41.7K (Chapters 38/38)
Summary: Autumn has faded into winter. As the days grow shorter, Holmeswood Manor celebrates the solstice.
Disclaimer: Neither Sherlock BBC nor Dark Shadows belong to me.
A/N: Written in a series of short chapters to the prompts of the 2020 Advent Ficlet Challenge and taking as inspiration the John and Sherlock of the Unaired Pilot.

Another instalment of the Penumbra series, which is a gothic AU of the Sherlock universe inspired by the universe of Dark Shadows (the 1966 television series).

Preview: In Maine, there was Collinwood and the three centuries of history that were woven into its walls. In London, there is Holmeswood Manor (or the Manor on Baker Street as the urban legends have it), tucked now into a city street when once its oak woods rolled from the heath to the river.

Series One Overview: John grew up with its stories of ghosts and wizards and things that hunt in the night. They didn’t keep him from interviewing for a residential post at the Manor because he couldn’t afford London on an army pension and there could not possibly have been any truth to the tales.

Series Two Overview: It's been more than a year since John came to live at the Manor on Baker Street. He has learned many things, one being that the stories hadn't prepared him for the half of it.

Summer Mini-episode: A glimpse of life in the season after the ball.

Winter Special: The winter solstice approaches. John's knowledge of the Manor and himself expands.

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Excerpt: I turned back to the window. “I don’t recall this last year. Were we away?” I leaned out. The breeze was sharp. The sound of bells louder.

“No. I told you this summer that you were changing.”
 

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Posted on AO3.

Photo source material: A Wooded Landscape in Three Panels by Louis Comfort Tiffany, a public domain work of art from Google Art Project, Wikipedia Commons. (More information may be found here.)

Title: The Flight of the Swans
Author: saki101
Rating: PG-13
Characters and Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Sherlock/John
Word Count: 23.6K
Summary: A prospective client has observed things that make her doubt her sanity. She wants Sherlock to uncover the truth. As John discovers, Sherlock is uniquely qualified to investigate her case.
Disclaimer: Sherlock BBC does not belong to me.

Excerpt: Morning would come. Dreams would go.

Posted on AO3.

Photo source: Wiki Commons with link to Creative Commons Licence Image has been modified.

Title: Penumbra (Series Two, Last Chapter: Leave-taking)
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: (this chapter) John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, Bill Wiggins, James Moriarty, Mummy Holmes, Mr Holmes, Mycroft Holmes
Rating: Mature (for the series)
Genre: slash
Word Count: ~7.7K (for this chapter), 40K (for second series)
Disclaimer: Neither Sherlock nor Dark Shadows is mine and no money is being made.
A/N: A sequel to my gothic fusion of Sherlock and the universe of Dark Shadows (the television series), set about a year after the first series.

Chapter 6: Leave-taking on AO3

Series Two: (earlier chapters) on AO3


Series One (all five chapters) on A03


Excerpt: “Brother, dear.”

Sherlock hummed an acknowledgement, but did not turn his head.

“I’ve been informed that we have a guest who will not be leaving.”

Title: Penumbra (Series Two, Fourth Chapter: Glazed)
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, Bill Wiggins, James Moriarty, Mrs Hudson, OCs, Mummy Holmes, Mr Holmes, Charles Augustus Magnusson, Culverton Smith
Rating: Mature (for the series)
Genre: slash
Word Count: ~6.1K (for this chapter), 26.3K (for second series)
Disclaimer: Neither Sherlock nor Dark Shadows is mine and no money is being made.
A/N: A sequel to my gothic fusion of Sherlock and the universe of Dark Shadows (the television series), set about a year after the first series.

Chapter 4: Glazed on AO3

Chapter 3: Hammam on AO3
Chapter 2: Alchemy on AO3
Chapter 1: Do You Dance? on AO3
Series One (all five chapters) on A03


Excerpt: “Serious business, names. Not to be invoked lightly nor given away casually.” He’d gone back to watching in the glass over my head.

“So, no one but your parents knows who I am?”

“Oh, they know who you are, John. That’s why they’d like to know your names.”

Title: Penumbra (Series Two, Second Chapter: Alchemy)
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, Bill Wiggins, OCs
Rating: Mature (for the series)
Genre: slash
Word Count: ~8K
Disclaimer: Neither Sherlock nor Dark Shadows is mine and no money is being made.
A/N: A sequel to my gothic fusion of Sherlock and the universe of Dark Shadows (the television series), set about a year after the first series.

Alchemy on AO3.
Series One (all five chapters) on A03.


Excerpt: I put my hands over my face. When I’ve been wild, when he’s been away, when I have lain, sated and breathless beside him, there have been times when I’ve begged him to do whatever he wanted so long as we didn’t stop.

Title: Pale Horse
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes
Rating: PG
Genre: slash
Word Count: ~500 words
Disclaimer: Sherlock is not mine and no money is being made.
A/N: A short, mythical AU in which Mycroft and Sherlock vie for control of John's fate.

Excerpt: “Him,” Sherlock said, with a wave of his hand towards the broad, shallow dish of water. “The third in line; I’ll have him.”

Also posted on AO3.

( Pale Horse )

Title: The House of Usher (on AO3)
Recipient: piplover
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Mrs Hudson, OCs, Roderick Usher/Edgar Corvus, Madeline Usher
Rating: Mature
Word Count: ~13K (posted in two parts due to length)
Warnings: case related violence
Disclaimer: Neither Sherlock, the Sherlock Holmes stories of Arthur Conan Doyle nor The Fall of the House of Usher is mine and no money is being made.
A/N: A fusion of Sherlock TAB and ACD crossed over with The Fall of the House of Usher. (Although not essential to the story, if anyone would like to re-read Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher, it may be found at Project Gutenberg here. Several passages are quoted in the story.)
Summary: A new client wants Sherlock Holmes to investigate the fall of the House of Usher. Doctor Watson ponders the use of forenames.

Excerpt: Holmes had held up the dagger and grinned at me, pushing away the hair that had fallen into his eyes and smearing muck across his face in the process. The steel blade had glittered in the sunlight as he turned it to read the inscription around the ornate hilt.

“Best not to commit crimes with family heirlooms,” he had observed.

( The House of Usher )

Title: Penumbra (Addenda: Baskerville & Chapalu - Conclusion)
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, Mrs Hudson, Greg Lestrade
Rating: NC-17 (for the series)
Genre: slash
Word Count: ~15K (Addenda: Baskerville & Chapalu - posted on LJ in two parts due to length)
Disclaimer: Neither Sherlock nor Dark Shadows is mine and no money is being made.
Preview: John is no longer sequestered. Boundaries are crossed and creatures encountered.
A/N: A gothic AU of the Sherlock universe inspired by the universe of Dark Shadows (the television series), presented in four episodes, and written for the Miniseries March Challenge at Fall TV Season Sherlock.

( Penumbra (Addenda: Chapalu & Baskerville) - Conclusion )

Title: Penumbra (Chapter Three: Transfusions - second part)
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, Mrs Hudson, Mike Stamford, Bill Wiggins, Mrs Turner
Rating: NC-17 (for this chapter and the series)
Genre: slash
Word Count: ~11K (Chapter Three in two parts on LJ due to length)
Disclaimer: Neither Sherlock nor Dark Shadows is mine and no money is being made.
Preview: Sherlock’s life is endangered and John is ready to do whatever is necessary to save him.
A/N: A gothic AU of the Sherlock universe inspired by the universe of Dark Shadows (the television series), presented in four episodes, and written for the Miniseries March Challenge at Fall TV Season Sherlock.

(After some revision, the chapter went over the LJ word limit so it is now posted in two sections.)

Also posted On AO3.
Chapter One on LJ
Chapter Two on LJ
Chapter Three - part 1 on LJ

Excerpt: A glint of white streaked across the sky, a fleck of fallen moonbeam.
Fanciful, Watson.
I may have crossed into the land of poets and madmen; I should use their language.


( Penumbra (Chapter Three: Transfusions) second part )

Title: Penumbra (Chapter Two: Sequestration)
Author: saki101
Characters/Pairings: John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, Mrs Hudson, Mike Stamford, Bill Wiggins
Rating: NC-17 (for series)
Genre: slash
Word Count: ~7.3K (Chapter Two)
Disclaimer: Neither Sherlock nor Dark Shadows is mine and no money is being made.
Preview: John learns that one of the terms of employment is that he must remain at the Manor, unless accompanying Sherlock elsewhere, for the entire month of his probation.
A/N: A gothic AU of the Sherlock universe inspired by the universe of Dark Shadows (the television series), presented in four episodes, and written for the Miniseries March Challenge at Fall TV Season Sherlock.

Also posted on AO3.
Chapter One: Meet Me at Moonrise may be read on LJ here.

Excerpt: “I can come back in the morning,” I called.

“No!” He shouted, striding back through the door. He took a deep breath when he stood before me again and regarded me from beneath lowered brows. “We have begun,” he said quietly.


( Penumbra (Chapter Two: Sequestration) )