Fic Rec: The Cornish Horror, by Finangler

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Title: The Cornish Horror, or How John Watson Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Sherlock Holmes

Author: finangler

Pairing: Sherlock/John

Length: 34.5K words

Rating: M

Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary: Sherlock Holmes had never really been in the “helping people” business in the first place.

Reccer's comments: I love case fic.  More than that, I love a fic that draws me in with its mystery, characters, relationships.  Give me a fic that makes me feel the setting and atmosphere as if I were there - a village by the sea, creaky floors in an old house, that occasional eerie sense of being watched.  

When it's done well I can lose myself for hours in the story, and look up to find that I've been so involved in the tale that I can't immediately remember what day (or even what time of year) I'm really in.  That's this fic.  Finangler uses certain events from TGG as a springboard for a retelling of ACD's "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot" woven into the modern Sherlock BBC world.  It's an outstanding read.

The Cornish Horror,  On LJ or On AO3, by finangler

And because this was originally written for the sherlock bigbang, there is artwork - in this case, awesome artwork by daunt.

Art by dauntdraws  Art On LJ