John Kendrick Bangs 2 hr 6 min read

The Associated Shades, the great dead of all history, find their House-Boat on the Styx stolen by Captain Kidd and his pirate crew, and turn to Sherlock Holmes himself to lead the pursuit.

John Kendrick Bangs's 1897 novel, sequel to 'A House-Boat on the Styx,' is a witty comic fantasy. Droll, clever, delightful. Read it for genial Bangsian whimsy, Shakespeare, Johnson, Cleopatra, and the shades of the famous dead, led by a resurrected Sherlock Holmes, chasing pirates across the rivers of the afterlife.

In its time

Published in 1897, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

2 hr 6 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Peter Newell