Note to Some reviews may contain spoilers (sometimes even with emojis 🎭🔑📖) — best enjoyed after you’ve finished the story. "Matilda Briggs was not the name of a young woman, Watson," said Holmes in a reminiscent voice. "It was a ship which is associated with the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared..." — The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire Now, Holmes tells the tale at last. A ghost-ship on the Thames, her crew vanished. A log of madness and fear. The sound of claws in the dark. And on the main deck, a crate — sealed tight — holding a living thing, patient, cunning, and hungry... A creature that should never have left Sumatra...