The Creeping Man: Wrong Gland

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Title: The Creeping Man: Wrong Gland
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: Crack. Also a reference to one of the greatest YouTube videos ever.
Summary:  The Professor really needs to label his stuff better.
                                                                                                                                                                                
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At first Watson seemed fine after the Professor jabbed him.

But later, in an alley fight, he took on three thugs nearly twice his size – and won.

When they encountered another deadly serpent, Watson simply grabbed it in his bare hands and bit its head off. Then ate it.

…Presbury examined the unlabeled phial. “Dammit, this is Honey Badger extract!”

The Creeping Man: Vanity thy name is...

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Title: ...everybody.
Canon Story: The Creeping Man
Rating: Gen

So that’s what happened, thought Alice, as she laid the copy of The Strand beside her. Well, it could hardly matter now, but poor Pressie! Men were such vain creatures.

“Will that be all, m’lady?”

“Yes,” said Alice, just as she caught her own reflection in the well-polished teapot, “but if you would, dim the lights before the guests arrive.”

Discussion Post: The Creeping Man

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This week, the canon story we’re looking at is The Creeping Man and the chosen topic is Dogs and Other Domesticated Animals.

( Discussion continues... )

Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Creeping Man

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Welcome once again to my poetry page!

I hope each week you will read Dr. Watson’s delightful narrative and then go on to write a poem related to it in some way. All forms of poetry are permitted, and further down the page there is a selection you might like to consider using over the coming weeks.

And here, courtesy of my housemaid Rachel, is this week’s suggested poem to read—a suggestion inspired by the themes and subjects in this week's story. Hopefully you will enjoy the poem, and perhaps it may give you some ideas for a poem of your own or allow you to look at Dr. Watson's story in a new way.




The Face

By Stevie Smith



Thank you so much to Rachel. And here is also a new poetry form to try: the xenolith.


( Definition and Example )

But you do not have to use this form. Any form of poetry is welcome this week—and every week! Here are a few suggestions for you:

221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, alexandrine, ballad, barzelletta, beeswing, blackout poetry, blitz poem, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, clogyrnach, colour poems, compound word verse, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, débat, décima, descort, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, echo verse, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, enuig, epigram, epistle, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, Fib, florette, found poetry, free verse, ghazal, haiku, hay(na)ku, In Memoriam stanza, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, lies, limerick, line messaging, list poem, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, musette, nonsense verse, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, quatern, quintilla, renga, rhyming alliterisen, riddle, rimas dissolutas, rime couée, rispetto, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, shadorma, sonnet, stream of consciousness, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, tricube, trine, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle, xenolith


Please leave all your poems inspired by The Creeping Man in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Creeping Man: Something’s Different

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Canon Story: The Creeping Man
Title: Something's Different
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: With a wave of his hand he indicated my old armchair, but otherwise for half an hour he gave no sign that he was aware of my presence... I have one other client in England…


Mrs. Hudson climbed in through the window, thrust a tray at Watson—

“Tea, you b______.”

—and then exited, creeping on all fours.

“Ah, Watson…”

Watson turned to Holmes, who smiled.

“Anything interesting happen while I was ‘away’..?”

Watson looked bemused.

“Mrs. Hudson… Is she..?”

He shook his head.

“...trying a new hairstyle?”

Holmes nodded. “Embraced the Gibson tuck, I believe!”

The Creeping Man: Inconvenient

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Canon Story: The Creeping Man
Title: Inconvenient (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: PG

It was inconvenient, deucedly inconvenient, to respond to Holmes’ telegram immediately.  We therefore ignored it, until we had finished taking our pleasures.  I thought Holmes might have had an inkling of what his telegram had tried, but failed, to interrupt, but to be honest, I doubt he’d have paid any attention to me had I arrived wearing a gorilla suit.