There’s a world right next to our own and at any minute those boundaries could falter. The creatures there at best don’t care and at worst loath the human race. Occasionally, the dimensions merge or the creatures enter the dreams and thoughts of man leaving those that encounter them dead or hopelessly mad. This is the creation of H. P. Lovecraft. Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born in 1890 but his influence reaches into the 21^st century. In his mythos he rejected the traditional monsters like ghosts and vampires, but instead created a new horror. Here there are tentacles and hundreds of tiny biting mouths ready to devour some poor person, and there are the mythical New England towns of Arkham and Innsmouth. Most of his stories are short and can easily be read in one sitting, and there are numerous collections of his work. Other authors have been influenced by his stories, and others have written in the Lovecraftian style creating even more stories about this terrifying world that threatens are our own. Stephen King even has a short story in the Eternal Lovecraft: The Persistence of HPL in Popular Culture. There are as many stories and books written by other authors as by Lovecraft himself. Shadows over Baker Street is a collection of stories by authors including Neil Gaiman, Brian Stableford, and Barbara Hambly. The twist with these stories is that Sherlock Holmes is thrust into the Lovecraftian nightmare. Either by Lovecraft or by someone else, these stories have a similar feel of foreboding and darkness as the evil from this other world threatens us all.