Fic Rec: Dark Things

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Title: Dark Things
Author: bethagain
Pairing: none
Length: approx. 16,800 words
Rating: teen and up
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: The answer should be obvious. It's almost always obvious. But these murders... They don't make sense.


Reccer's comments: Take Sherlock in clever deduction mode, have him meet Lovecraft and a new genre is created: tentacle casefic.

London is confronted by a string of atrociously violent murders and no one, initially not even the world’s only consulting detective can make head or tail of them. There’s no motive, no method, just a trail of hideously abused corpses.

Of course Sherlock is the one to eventually figure out what’s going on, staying true to his maxim that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth, even if you'll first have to wrap your head about the fact that it slithers and has numerous tentacles.

As any Lovecraft-enthusiast is justly weary of those tentacles, Sherlock’s actual explanation for the murders had me snorting with laughter.