Leslie S. Klinger (born May 2, 1946, in

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) is an American attorney and writer. He is a noted

literary editor A literary editor is an editor in a newspaper, magazine or similar publication who deals with aspects concerning literature and books, especially reviews.

and annotator of classic genre fiction, including the

Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes () is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a " consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and ...

stories and the novels ''

Dracula ''Dracula'' is a novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897. As an epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist, but opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking ...

'', ''

Frankenstein ''Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. ''Frankenstein'' tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific ex ...

'', and ''

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' is a 1886 Gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It follows Gabriel John Utterson, a London-based legal practitioner who investigates a series of strange occurrences between his old ...

'' as well as

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's ''The Sandman'' comics, Alan Moore's and

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's graphic novel ''

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'', the stories of H.P. Lovecraft, and Neil Gaiman's ''

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''.

Biography

Klinger was born in

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, on May 2, 1946. He received a B.A. in English from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

in 1967 and a J.D. from

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School of Law at UC Berkeley in 1970. It was in law school that he developed his interest in Holmes, leading him to amass a collection of thousands of books about the detective. Klinger also has a substantial collection of pre-World War I crime fiction. He practices law in the fields of tax, estate planning, and business in

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. He lives in Malibu, California, with his wife Sharon Flaum Klinger, who is a dealer in first-day-covers, and their cats Oz and Willow.

Publications

He is the editor of ''

The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes ''The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes'' is a series of three annotated books edited by Leslie S. Klinger, collecting all of Arthur Conan Doyle's short stories and novels about Sherlock Holmes. The books were originally published by W. W. Norton i ...

'', a three-book edition of all of

Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for ''A Study in Scarlet'', the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Ho ...

fiction with extensive annotations and an introduction by

John le Carré David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 193112 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré ( ), was a British and Irish author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. ...

. Hailed as "the definitive exegesis of Holmes and his times," the book won an

Edgar Award The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, popularly called the Edgars, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City. Named after American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), a pioneer in the genre, the awards honor the bes ...

. He also edited the scholarly ten-volume ''Sherlock Holmes Reference Library'', a heavily annotated edition of the entire Sherlock Holmes canon, and ''The New Annotated Dracula'', an annotated version of

Bram Stoker Abraham Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author who is celebrated for his 1897 Gothic horror novel '' Dracula''. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and busine ...

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with an introduction by

. In 2011, he co-edited with Laurie R. King ''The Grand Game'', a two-volume collection of classical Sherlockian scholarship published by the Baker Street Irregulars, and ''A Study in Sherlock'', a collection of stories by all-star writers inspired by the Sherlock Holmes tales (Random House). Klinger and King edited another collection, ''In the Company of Sherlock Holmes'', with more stories by great writers inspired by the Holmes canon, published by Pegasus Books in 2014. Klinger also wrote a short story, "The Closing," for that collection, his first fiction to be published in book form. Klinger and King edited a third volume of stories for Pegasus, published in 2016 and entitled ''Echoes of Sherlock Holmes''; their fourth collection, titled ''For the Sake of the Game'', was published by Pegasus in 2018. The fifth volume, titled ''In League with Sherlock Holmes'', was published by Pegasus in 2020. The first two volumes of ''The Annotated Sandman'', a four-volume edition of

's award-winning ''The Sandman'' comics for

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, appeared in 2012; the third volume was published in 2014, and the fourth volume appeared in 2015. ''

: The Annotated Edition'' was edited by Klinger for DC Comics with

, using extensive material from Alan Moore's original scripts; the book was published in late 2017. Klinger also edited ''The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft'', a massive illustrated collection of heavily annotated stories with an introduction by Alan Moore for Liveright/W. W. Norton, was published in 2014 to critical acclaim. A second annotated volume of Lovecraft tales, titled ''The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham'', with an introduction by

Victor LaValle Victor LaValle (born February 3, 1972) is an American author. He is the author of a short-story collection, ''Slapboxing with Jesus'', and four novels, ''The Ecstatic,'' ''Big Machine,'' ''The Devil in Silver,'' and '' The Changeling''. His fanta ...

, was published by Liveright in 2019. A single-volume trade paperback edition of 10 stories, ''The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories'', including Klinger's notes, was published by Liveright in 2022. ''The New Annotated Frankenstein'', also from Liveright/W. W. Norton with an introduction by

Guillermo del Toro Guillermo del Toro Gómez (; born October 9, 1964) is a Mexican filmmaker, author, and actor. He directed the Academy Award–winning fantasy films ''Pan's Labyrinth'' (2006) and ''The Shape of Water'' (2017), winning the Academy Awards for Be ...

, was published in 2017. Klinger has also contributed introductions to numerous books of mystery and horror, written book reviews for the ''

Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the Un ...

''
''Los Angeles Review of Books''
and other periodicals, and contributed an essay on vampires and sex, called "Love Bites," to ''Playboy''. A collection of all of his essays from 2007 through 2016, titled "Baker Street Reveries," appeared in 2018 from Wessex Press. He served as a consultant on the 2009 film ''Sherlock Holmes'', starring

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, and on the sequel, '' Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows'', released in 2011, as well as '' Enola Holmes'' and the sequel film and a number of other film scripts and comic book adaptations of the Holmes and Dracula stories. In 2011, Klinger edited two collections of classic fiction, ''In the Shadow of Dracula'' and ''In the Shadow of Sherlock Holmes'', both from IDW. In 2015, a third collection, ''In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe: Classic Horror, 1810-1916'', was published by Pegasus Books. A fourth volume,'' In the Shadow of Agatha Christie: Classic Crime Fiction by Forgotten Women Authors, 1850-1917'', was published by Pegasus in 2018, and a fifth collection, ''Ghost Stories: Classic Tales of Horror and Suspense'', co-edited with

Lisa Morton Lisa Morton (born December 11, 1958) is an American horror author and screenwriter. Biography Morton was born in Pasadena, California, and entered the film industry in 1979 as a modelmaker on Star Trek: The Motion Picture. In 1988 she co-wro ...

, came out in 2019. A second volume co-edited with Morton, ''Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers, 1852-1923'', was published in 2020. A third volume, ''Weird Women 2: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers, 1820-1945'', was published in 2021, and a fourth volume, ''Haunted Tales'', will appear in August 2022. In 2018, Pegasus Books published ''Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s'', which includes ''

House Without a Key ''The House Without a Key'' is a 1925 novel by Earl Derr Biggers, the first of the Charlie Chan mysteries. Set in 1920s Hawaii, the novel acquaints the reader with the look and feel of the islands from the standpoint of both white and non-white ...

'' (the first Charlie Chan novel by Earl Derr Biggers), ''

Red Harvest ''Red Harvest'' (1929) is a novel by Dashiell Hammett. The story is narrated by the Continental Op, a frequent character in Hammett's fiction, much of which is drawn from his own experiences as an operative of the Pinkerton Detective Agency (fic ...

'' (the first novel-length Continental Op mystery by

Dashiell Hammett Samuel Dashiell Hammett (; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade ('' ...

), ''

The Roman Hat Mystery ''The Roman Hat Mystery'' is a novel that was written in 1929 by Ellery Queen. It is the first of the Ellery Queen mysteries. Plot summary The novel deals with the poisoning of a disreputable lawyer named Monte Field in the Roman Theater in N ...

'' (the first Ellery Queen novel), ''

The Benson Murder Case ''The Benson Murder Case'' is the first novel in the Philo Vance series of mystery novels by S. S. Van Dine, which became a best-seller. Plot outline New York dilettante Philo Vance decides to assist the police in investigating the death of an ...

'' (the first

Philo Vance Philo Vance is a fictional amateur detective originally featured in 12 crime novels by S. S. Van Dine in the 1920s and 1930s. During that time, Vance was immensely popular in books, films, and radio. He was portrayed as a stylish—even foppish— ...

novel by

S.S. Van Dine S. S. Van Dine (also styled S.S. Van Dine) is the pseudonym used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright (October 15, 1888 – April 11, 1939) when he wrote detective novels. Wright was active in avant-garde cultural circles in pre-Worl ...

), and ''Little Caesar'' by

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, the basis for the first great gangster film. Klinger, together with

Laura Caldwell Laura Caldwell (October 24, 1967 – March 1, 2020) was a civil trial lawyer and also a law professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, founding director of Life After Innocence, published author of 14 novels and two non-fiction books. ...

, who was a well-known writer and law professor at Loyola University Chicago and founder-director o
Life After Innocence
edited an anthology, titled ''Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted'', published by Liveright/W. W. Norton in 2017. The anthology tells the stories of exonerees—individuals wrongfully incarcerated for crimes they did not commit—as told to major mystery and thriller writers. The volume is introduced by

Scott Turow Scott Frederick Turow (born April 12, 1949) is an American author and lawyer. Turow has written 13 fiction and three nonfiction books, which have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 30 million copies. Turow’s novel ...

and Barry Scheck and also contains a previously unpublished essay by the renowned playwright Arthur Miller on a wrongful conviction case. All authors' proceeds will be donated to Life After Innocence. In 2020, ''Annotated American Gods'' by Neil Gaiman and Klinger—a fully annotated and illustrated edition of Gaiman's multi-award-winning 2000 novel ''

'', was published . His next major book, ''New Annotated Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde'' by

Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as ''Treasure Island'', ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll a ...

, with an introduction by Joe Hill, was published in October 2022 by the Mysterious Press. Klinger also served as general editor of th
Haunted Library of Horror Classics
co-edited with Eric J. Guignard and published by the Horror Writers Association and Poisoned Pen Press/

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. The series consisted of ''Phantom of the Opera'' by Gaston Leroux, followed by ''The Beetle'' by Richard Marsh, ''Vathek'' by William Beckford, ''House on the Borderlands'' by

William Hope Hodgson William Hope Hodgson (15 November 1877 – 19 April 1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction, and sci ...

, ''Of One Blood'' by

Pauline Hopkins Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859 – August 13, 1930) was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and editor. She is considered a pioneer in her use of the romantic novel to explore social and racial themes, as demonstrated ...

, ''The Parasite and Other Tales of Terror'' by

, ''The King in Yellow'' by

Robert W. Chambers Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 – December 16, 1933) was an American artist and fiction writer, best known for his book of short stories titled '' The King in Yellow'', published in 1895. Life Chambers was born in Brooklyn, New York, t ...

, ''Ghost Stories of an Antiquarian'' by

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, ''Gothic Classics: The Castle of Otranto and The Old English Baron'' by

Horace Walpole Horatio Walpole (), 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whigs (British political party), Whig politician. He had Strawb ...

and Clara Reeve, and ''The Mummy!'' by Jane Webb. He is also the editor of the ongoing Library of Congress Crime Classics series, published by the Poisoned Pen Press/Sourcebooks in partnership with the

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. The first book in the series is ''That Affair Next Door'' by

Anna Katharine Green Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green ...

. This was followed by ''The Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope'' by C.W. Grafton, ''Case Pending'' by Dell Shannon, ''Final Proof'' by

Rodrigues Ottolengui Rodrigues Ottolengui (March 15, 1861 – July 11, 1937) was an American writer and dentist of Sephardic descent. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he moved to New York City, where he would spend most of his adult life, in 1877. Biography One ...

, ''Last Seen Wearing'' by

Hillary Waugh Hillary Baldwin Waugh (June 22, 1920 – December 8, 2008) was a pioneering United States, American Mystery fiction, mystery novelist. In 1989, he was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. Pseudonym, Pseudonyms used by Waugh inclu ...

, ''The Silent Bullet'' by

Arthur B. Reeve Arthur Benjamin Reeve (October 15, 1880 – August 9, 1936) was an American mystery writer. He is known best for creating the series character Professor Craig Kennedy, sometimes called "The American Sherlock Holmes", and Kennedy's Dr. Watson-lik ...

, ''The Dead Letter'' by Seeley Regester, ''Jim Hanvey, Detective'' by Octavus Roy Cohen, ''The Metropolitan Opera Murders'' by Helen Traubel, ''The Conjure-Man Dies'' by

Rudolph Fisher Rudolph John Chauncey Fisher (May 9, 1897 – December 26, 1934) was an American physician, radiologist, novelist, short story writer, dramatist, musician, and orator. His father was John Wesley Fisher, a clergyman, his mother was Glendora Willia ...

, ''Average Jones'' by

Samuel Hopkins Adams Samuel Hopkins Adams (January 26, 1871 – November 16, 1958) was an American writer who was an investigative journalist and muckraker. Background Adams was born in Dunkirk, New York. Adams was a muckraker, known for exposing public-health inju ...

, and ''Room to Swing'' by

Ed Lacy Ed Lacy (August 25, 1911 - January 7, 1968), born Leonard S. Zinberg, was an American writer of crime and detective fiction. Lacy, who was Jewish American, is credited with creating "the first credible African American PI" character in fiction, ...

. Coming soon are ''The Master of Mysteries'' by Gelett Burgess, ''A Gentle Murderer'' by

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, ''The Thinking Machine'' by

Jacques Futrelle Jacques Heath Futrelle (April 9, 1875 – April 15, 1912) was an American journalist and mystery writer. He is best known for writing short detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, also known as "The Thinking Mac ...

, ''The "Canary" Murder Case'' by

S. S. Van Dine S. S. Van Dine (also styled S.S. Van Dine) is the pseudonym used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright (October 15, 1888 – April 11, 1939) when he wrote detective novels. Wright was active in avant-garde cultural circles in pre-Worl ...

, and ''In the Fog'' by

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Literary organizations

Klinger is a member of the Sherlock Holmes literary club called

The Baker Street Irregulars The Baker Street Irregulars is an organization of Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts founded in 1934 by Christopher Morley. The nonprofit organization currently numbers some 300 individuals worldwide. The group has published ''The Baker Street Journal' ...

, as well as numerous other Sherlockian societies such as The Illustrious Clients of Indianapolis. He served three terms as chapter president of the Southern California chapter of the

Mystery Writers of America Mystery Writers of America (MWA) is an organization of mystery and crime writers, based in New York City. The organization was founded in 1945 by Clayton Rawson, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence Treat, and Brett Halliday. It presents the Edgar Award ...

and is currently chapter secretary. He is a member of

Sisters in Crime Sisters in Crime is an organization that has 4,500 members in 60+ regional chapters worldwide, offering networking, advice and support to mystery authors. Members are authors, readers, publishers, agents, booksellers and librarians bound by their ...

, the Horror Writers Association (and served as the Treasurer of HWA for 10 years), the Dracula Society, and the

Transylvanian Society of Dracula The Transylvanian Society of Dracula (TSD) is a cultural-historic, non-profit, non-governmental organization. Its members include Romanian and international scholars, folklorists, historians, esoterists, writers, cultural anthropologists, and indiv ...

. He is an honorary member of th
Mystery Writers of Turkey
and currently serves on the editorial board of the ''Journal of Dracula Studies''. Klinger is the chair of the Board of Trustees of the American Friends of the Toronto Public Library. He was the general editor of a number of books published by the Baker Street Irregulars (BSI), including the Manuscript Series, and is currently the general editor of the BSI's Biography Series. He has lectured frequently on Holmes, ''Dracula'', Lovecraft, ''Frankenstein'', Jekyll and Hyde, and the

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world and has taught a number of courses for

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Extension on Sherlock Holmes. He also taught a course on "Dracula and His World" for

Extension in November 2009. Klinger has also moderated or appeared on many panels for the

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Lawsuit against Conan Doyle Estate Ltd

In February 2013, Klinger filed a copyright lawsuit against Conan Doyle Estate Ltd, a UK-based private company which had demanded a license fee for the use of the Sherlock Holmes characters in the ''In the Company of Sherlock Holmes'' short story collection. In the United States in 2013, only ten of Conan Doyle's sixty original Sherlock Holmes stories were in copyright, and the proposed stories relied only on aspects of the characters defined in

public domain The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work A creative work is a manifestation of creative effort including fine artwork (sculpture, paintings, drawing, sketching, performance art), dance, writing (literature), filmmaking, ...

stories (such as Holmes's bohemian habits, deductive reasoning, and many supporting characters). In December 2013, Judge Rubén Castillo ruled that stories published prior to 1923 were in the public domain but that ten stories published after then were still under copyright. The stories in the public domain consist of the four novels and 46 short stories. Judge Castillo rejected a claim by Conan Doyle Estate Ltd. that some aspects of Holmes in the pre-1923 stories were protected by copyright because they were "continually developed" through the protected ten stories, which would not enter the public domain until 2022. Any author or creator is free to use characters and events in the pre-1923 stories, including Holmes and Watson themselves, but elements introduced in the copyrighted stories, such as Watson's rugby background with Blackheath and details of Holmes' retirement, remain protected by copyright law. In June 2014, in an opinion by Judge

Richard Posner Richard Allen Posner (; born January 11, 1939) is an American jurist and legal scholar who served as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1981 to 2017. A senior lecturer at the University of Chica ...

, the

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affirmed the lower court decision in favor of Klinger and confirmed the public-domain status of the pre-1923 material. In November 2014, the

U.S. Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that involve a point o ...

refused to hear a further appeal by Conan Doyle Estate Ltd, making the Court of Appeals' finding final. Subsequently, Klinger has consulted in connection with the Conan Doyle Estate Ltd. litigation against Miramax regarding the film ''

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'' and against Legendary Pictures regarding the film ''Enola Holmes'', for which he was credited as a technical advisor.

Awards

Klinger's awards for his editorial work include: 1999: * "Special Sherlock" (best Sherlockian book of the year) for "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," Sherlock Holmes Reference Library, Vol. 1 (Sherlock Holmes: The Detective Magazine) 2003: * "Special Sherlock" (best Sherlockian book of the year) for "The Hound of the Baskervilles," Sherlock Holmes Reference Library, Vol. 4 (Sherlock Holmes: The Detective Magazine) 2005: *

for "Best Critical/Biographical Work" for "The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories," 2-vol. set (Mystery Writers of America) *

Macavity Award The Macavity Awards are a literary award for mystery writers. Nominated and voted upon annually by the members of the Mystery Readers International, the award is named for the " mystery cat" of T. S. Eliot's ''Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats'' ...

Nominated for "Best Nonfiction" for "The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories," 2-vol. set (Mystery Readers International) *

Anthony Award The Anthony Awards are literary awards for mystery writers presented at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention since 1986. The awards are named for Anthony Boucher (1911–1968), one of the founders of the Mystery Writers of America. Among the m ...

Nominated for "Best Nonfiction" for "The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories," 2-vol. set (Bouchercon World Mystery Convention) *

Agatha Award The Agatha Awards, named for Agatha Christie, are literary awards for mystery and crime writers who write in the traditional mystery subgenre: "books typified by the works of Agatha Christie . . . loosely defined as mysteries that contain no expli ...

Nominated for "Best Nonfiction" for "The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories," 2-vol. set (Malice Domestic Convention) *

Quill Award The Quill Award was an American literary award that ran for three years in 2005-2007. It was a "consumer-driven award created to inspire reading while promoting literacy." The Quills Foundation, the organization behind the Quill Award, was support ...

Nominated in the Mystery/Thriller category for "The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories," 2-vol. set (Quills Foundation) 2006: *

Nominated for "Best Critical/Biographical Work" for "The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels" *

Nominated for "Best Nonfiction" for "The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels" *

Nominated for "Best Nonfiction" for "The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels" 2012: * Bram Stoker Award Nominated for "Best Nonfiction" for "The Annotated Sandman, Vol. 1" (Horror Writers Association) 2014: * Bram Stoker Award Nominated for "Best Nonfiction" for "The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft" (Horror Writers Association) 2015: *

for Best Anthology for "In the Company of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon," co-edited with Laurie R. King (Bouchercon World Mystery Convention) * Silver Falchion Award for Best Anthology for "In the Company of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon," co-edited with Laurie R. King (Killer Nashville Mystery Convention) 2017: * Silver Falchion Award Nominated for Best Anthology for "Echoes of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon," co-edited with Laurie R. King (Killer Nashville Mystery Convention) 2018: * World Fantasy Award Nominated for Special Award—Professional for "The New Annotated Frankenstein" (World Fantasy Convention) 2019: * Morley-Montgomery Award for best article in the "Baker Street Journal" (2018) (The Baker Street Irregulars) *

for "Best Critical/Biographical Work" for "Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s" (Mystery Writers of America) *

Nominated for Best Critical/Non-fiction for "Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s" (Bouchercon World Mystery Convention) * Silver Falchion Award Nominated for Best Anthology for "For the Sake of the Game: Stories Inspired by the Sherlock Holmes Canon," co-edited with Laurie R. King (Killer Nashville Mystery Convention) * Silver Falchion Award Nominated for Best Nonfiction for "Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s" (Killer Nashville Mystery Convention) *

Nominated for Best Nonfiction for "Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s" (Mystery Readers International) 2020: * World Fantasy Award Nominated for Special Award—Professional for "The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham" (World Fantasy Convention)

References

External links

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