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Title: Penumbra (Winter Special)
Author: saki101
Rating: R
Characters and Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Sherlock/John, Mrs Hudson, Mrs Turner, Wiggins, Greg Lestrade, Mycroft Holmes, Molly Hooper, OCs
Word Count: ~41.7K (Chapters 38/38)
Warnings: No warnings apply.
Summary: Autumn has faded into winter. As the days grow shorter, Holmeswood Manor celebrates the solstice.
Disclaimer: Neither Sherlock BBC nor Dark Shadows belong to me.
A/N: Written in a series of short chapters to the prompts of the 2020 Advent Ficlet Challenge and taking as inspiration the John and Sherlock of the Unaired Pilot.

Another instalment of the Penumbra series, which is a gothic AU of the Sherlock universe inspired by the universe of Dark Shadows (the 1966 television series).

Preview: In Maine, there was Collinwood and the three centuries of history that were woven into its walls. In London, there is Holmeswood Manor (or the Manor on Baker Street as the urban legends have it), tucked now into a city street when once its oak woods rolled from the heath to the river.

Series One Overview: John grew up with its stories of ghosts and wizards and things that hunt in the night. They didn’t keep him from interviewing for a residential post at the Manor because he couldn’t afford London on an army pension and there could not possibly have been any truth to the tales.

Series Two Overview: It's been more than a year since John came to live at the Manor on Baker Street. He has learned many things, one being that the stories hadn't prepared him for the half of it.

Summer Mini-episode: A glimpse of life in the season after the ball.

Winter Special: The winter solstice approaches. John's knowledge of the Manor and himself expands.

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Excerpt: I turned back to the window. “I don’t recall this last year. Were we away?” I leaned out. The breeze was sharp. The sound of bells louder.

“No. I told you this summer that you were changing.”
 

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Posted on AO3.

Photo source material: A Wooded Landscape in Three Panels by Louis Comfort Tiffany, a public domain work of art from Google Art Project, Wikipedia Commons. (More information may be found here.)

Title: Penumbra (Summer mini-episode)
Author: saki101
Rating: R
Characters and Pairings: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Sherlock/John
Word Count: ~800 words
Summary: London is having a heat wave. The solution for such things at Holmeswood Manor predates electricity by a very, very long time.
Disclaimer: Neither Sherlock BBC nor Dark Shadows belong to me.

Excerpt: Sleep slid away. I reached out towards the other, often empty, side of the bed. My fingers found the cool curves of my bedfellow and I smiled.

Posted on AO3.

Photo source: Wikipedia Commons

Title: Penumbra (Series Two, Last Chapter: Leave-taking)
Author: saki101
Fandom: Sherlock BBC
Characters/Pairings: (this chapter) John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, Bill Wiggins, James Moriarty, Mummy Holmes, Mr Holmes, Mycroft Holmes
Rating: R (for the series)
Summary: A gothic AU of the Sherlock universe inspired by the universe of Dark Shadows (the television series) in which John grew up hearing stories about Holmeswood Manor. They didn't keep him from interviewing for a post as a resident physician at the Manor when he came back from Afghanistan because there was no way he could afford to live in London on an army pension and he was sure there could not possibly be any truth to the tales. A year on he knows that the stories didn't prepare him for the half of it.
Warnings: canon-compliant character suicide, magic involving blood
Word Count: ~7.7K (for this chapter), 41K (for second series)
Disclaimer: Neither Sherlock nor Dark Shadows is mine and no money is being made.
A/N: A sequel to series one of Penumbra, set a little more than a year later.

Chapter 6: Leave-taking on AO3

Series Two: (earlier chapters) on AO3

Series One (all five chapters) on A03


Excerpt: “Brother, dear.”

Sherlock hummed an acknowledgement, but did not turn his head.

“I’ve been informed that we have a guest who will not be leaving.”