The Middle Distance

The Veil Dodger

Rating: Mature
Pairing: Mrs Hudson/Madame Tracy
Characters: Mrs Hudson, Madame Tracy, Jim Moriarty
Tags: Canon Fake Major Character Death, Canon Real Major Character Death, Discussion of Suicide, Grief, Seances, Spiritualism, Ghost Possession, Femslash, Dark Comedy

Summary: In the aftermath of what certainly appears to be the suicide of Sherlock Holmes, a grieving Mrs. Hudson has a lot of questions, and she will stop at nothing to get answers. Including answering a very dodgy ad for a psychic medium. The answers she receives don’t match the questions she asked.

Chapter 1/6: Solitude

This is a fairly lighthearted story really, but CW for grief and discussion of suicide. We know Sherlock isn't really dead, but Mrs. Hudson doesn't.

Title: The Terror of Rushy Hollow
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings
author: vulgarweed
Rating: PG
Pairing: None really - Hobbit OC-centric
Summary:One dark autumn night in the Shire, a rejected suitor leaves a harvest festival with a heavy heart - and a head swimming with eerie stories. Particularly of a new terror never seen in the Shire before: the ghastly spectre the locals call the Faceless Horseman.

Those familiar with The Red Book of Westmarch will recognise this as a rustic, romanticised, and garbled hobbit-centric account of certain alarming events that occurred in the Shire in the autumn of TA 3018, on the eve of the War of the Ring.

Those familiar with more recent literature will note that this story bears such a strong resemblance to the plot of Washington Irving's story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," one realises Mr Irving must have had some passing acquaintance with Middle-earth folklore.

The Terror of Rushy Hollow at AO3


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