Caribbean Crisis & Voodoo Island
Oxford: Rebellion, 2023 (December 5th) trade-sized paperback;
by Michael Moorcock & Mark Hodder;
original price: £9·99;
384 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 978-1-83786-034-0;
cover artist: Rebellion;
introduction by Moorcock;
afterword by Hodder;
no other edition.
Michael Moorcock’s first professional standalone publication, written in collaboration with James Cawthorn, was Caribbean Crisis, No. 501 in the Sexton Blake Library, “‘the longest running detective series in the world’; his adventures had started in 1889”. ‘Desmond Reid’ was a house pseudonym, used that one time only by either writer. Intended by them “to be the ultimate locked room mystery … [S.B.L. editors] Philip Cambers and Bill Baker had other ideas!”.
Caribbean Crisis & Voodoo Island (as its dual title suggests) combines a “Restored, revised and expanded” version of Caribbean Crisis with a brand-new prequel, Voodoo Island, both updated/written in collaboration with longtime Sexton Blake scholar Mark Hodder.
Contents:-
p. 5: ‘Working In The Folk Hero Sector’ (non-fiction) by Michael Moorcock;
p. 11: Caribbean Crisis;
p. 181: a ‘letter’ to Michael Moorcock from “Sexton Blake”;
p. 185: Voodoo Island;
p. 377: ‘Caribbean Crisis, Restored, Revised, Expanded—And “Prequelled”’ (non-fiction) by Mark Hodder;
p. 383: Acknowledgments (non-fiction);
p. 384: About The Authors (non-fiction).
Ashland, OR: Blackstone (C.D.) audiobook, 2023 (December 5th);
original price: $49·99;
I.S.B.N.: 9798889568926;
8 C.D.s;
narrated by Colin Mace.
Caribbean Crisis & Voodoo Island is (are) also available as an e-book: 9781837860333.
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