Fairy

she had raven's wing hair
and amethyst eyes
and birds' wings black as pitch,
a shirt the color of a moonless midnight,
a necklace of clear white dewdrop diamonds,
a cloak of purple like a burning flame
a skirt like charred leaves in a rain,
skin the color of porcelain, 
gloves as black as shadows painted in,
with rings of rubies, red as raspberries
twined between thorns and poison ivy,
earrings like the fire in a dragon's eye
shoes the color of a twilight sky,
lips the color of a bead of blood,
teeth as white as the moon
reflected in a flood,
and a voice as soft as a whisper of wind
to wash round the door and be invited in.

by Sara n. b.

Merlin Pirates

(the idea for this poem came because we had been watching something on netflix and mommy asked "why are you typing Merlin pirates?" Daddy said "I was trying to type pirates but I can't get the word Merlin to go away")

It was a pirated version of a Merlin movie
(I watched it on a widescreen TV)
he was head of some pirates and led them to sea
to a Model Modern Major General of the Military
who taught them how to be
proper, and always say please.
"When you chop off people's heads,"
he said,
"or walk someone off the plank,
you must never never never spit on the deck;
blow your nose with your hanky,
cover your mouth if you sneeze,
call ladies madame, not by their names, even if it's Eloise.
I think that's it for today, and my, what a breeze."
So those pirates went away;
to terrorize the sea for 10 years and a day.
They never ate with their fingers or cursed,
never cut someone's purse
(just took it by force),
never called ladies but by madame,
ate their scones with strawberry jam,
shot people with a polite farewell,
and always rang the doorbell,
first.
So it's proof,
that's the truth,
that pirates can be
just as polite as you and me.

by Sara n. b.

Glowing Ball

Genesis, Chapter 1--the third day

Genesis, chapter 1--the second day

ARM

The Professor Moriarty Novels, by Michael Kurland

The Infernal Device
Death by Gaslight
The Great Game
The Empress of India
(along with a few short stories)

Out of four novels, two manage to be brilliant, and one manages to be perfect. They are the kind of book you are always interested in, and never know what will happen next; with the answer being a complete surprise, while at the same time seeming like it should have been obvious. The only other series of books that good at doing it is Harry Potter. And, even while being nerve-wracking and suspenseful it has parts that make you laugh, and in the end will make you think and question and discover things.

written on the subject of Sherlock Holmes

All the stories listed below are brilliant, I wouldn't be able to pick a favourite. 

Novels and series

The original stories, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (of course) click here and go to end of post for list of books (I think it's better to read these first, you will know things that make the experience of reading the stories richer, like you'll get all the clever references and stuff, but the stories below are also just good  stories.)

The Mary Russell Novels, (A series) by Laurie R. King (click here for list of books)
(this series is beautifully written, especially the first book.)

The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, (a very great book) by Michael Dibdin
(this one you definitely can't read the end first or anything like that, the power of it depends on the not knowing, but it's one of the most amazing, extraordinary books ever.)

The Boy Sherlock Holmes, (a series) by Shane Peacock (click here for list of books)
(this series is the type a kid and an adult could read and both discover something, it's masterfully done, and it's also suspenseful no matter how many times you read it.)

the Enola Holmes Mysteries, (series) by Nancy Springer (click here for list of books)
(The people in it just as much as the mysteries make this series awesome.)
the Professor Moriarty novels and short stories, by Michael Kurland
(original, and funny, as well as being suspenseful. when in first person the narrator is one of my absolute favourites.) click here for list of novels
Dust and Shadow: an account of the ripper killings by Dr. John H. Watson, by Lyndsay Faye
(One of the greatest and most awful books ever.)
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, by Nicholas Meyer

Anthologies

The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Ellery Queen
(I think you can only get this in libraries?)

The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by John Joseph Adams
(really good stories)

Sherlock Holmes In Orbit, by Mike Resnick and Martin Harry Greenberg
(more really good stories- i'm running out of things to say, but look at the top- all the stories are great.)

Sherlock Holmes: The American Years, by Michael Kurland
(I like it!)
Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years, by Michael Kurland (even better)
Shadows Over Baker Street: New Tales of Terror, by Michael Reaves and John Pelan
(more really great stories- most of the stories aren't actually terrifying.)

commentaries

Sherlock Holmes For Dummies, by Steven Doyle and David A. Crowder

the Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson entries on Wikipedia 

A Basic Timeline of Terra 221B (really interesting and different)

The Sherlock Holmes Companion: An Elementary Guide, by Daniel Smith

Sherlock Holmes was Wrong, by Pierre Bayard (translated from french)
Eliminate the Impossible: an examination of the world of Sherlock Holmes on page and screen, by Alistair Duncan

and all these are interesting, too, or they wouldn't be here!


other
The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook, by Peter Haining
(stories and newspaper articles on the subject - very interesting. A lot of them are funny!)
Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography, by Nick Rennison ( just what it says it is, written as if he were real)