Sherlock Holmes, The Ghost Vampire

di John Pirillo (Autore)

John Pirillo, 2026

The fog over London does not merely sit; it breathes. It coils around the gaslights like a living shroud, thick with the soot of a million chimneys and the secrets of a million souls. In the heart of this grey labyrinth, at 221B Baker Street, the air is different—sharp with the scent of shag tobacco, old parchment, and the electric hum of a mind that refuses to let a single detail slip into the shadows. Here, the impossible is merely a puzzle that hasn't been solved yet, a knot of logic waiting for the right hand to untie it. When the shadows begin to move in ways that defy the laws of optics, and the blood of the wealthy vanishes from locked rooms without leaving a single drop of moisture, the line between the mundane and the monstrous begins to blur. It is a new breed of terror, one that does not strike with a blade but with a hollow hunger that saps the very vitality from the marrow. To face such a threat, the Master of Deduction must look beyond the fingerprints and the footprints, venturing into a realm where the geometry of the room becomes a weapon and the very atoms of the air hold a predator's teeth. The hunt will take them from the soot-stained docks of the East End to the crumbling, ivy-choked stones of Blackwood Manor, where the "House of Sighs" stands as a monument to an ancient, unmaking hunger. Alongside the steady hand of a doctor, the grit of the Yard, and the theatrical brilliance of an illusionist, Sherlock Holmes must navigate a mechanical nightmare of shifting walls and spectral veils. It is a game of high stakes played in the silence between heartbeats, where the only shield against the encroaching night is the cold, hard steel of human reason.

• Autore: John Pirillo
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: John Pirillo
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798235473584