Category Archives: Fiction

Sneak Preview of “Mrs. Pankhurst’s Amazons” at the Jet City Comic Expo

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 2nd November 2013 Visitors to this weekend’s Jet City Comics exposition in Tacoma, WA will get a sneak peek at some of the artwork for Mrs. Pankhurst’s Amazons, the upcoming graphic novel trilogy written by … Continue reading

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“How I taught Holmes baritsu …”

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 23rd November 2013 The following essay is a translation, by the author of the Hmm Yes Perfect blog, of a memoir by Russian fight choreographer Nikolay Vaschilin. Mr. Vaschilin staged the climactic Holmes/Moriarty battle … Continue reading

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BBC’s “Sherlock” (Finally!) Offers a Shout-Out to “Baritsu” …

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 2nd January 2014 … if only as the second of thirteen possible life-saving, death-faking scenarios worked out in painstaking detail prior to Sherlock’s confrontation with Moriarty atop the St. Bart’s Hospital roof. … Continue reading

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How the Original Sherlock Holmes Survived the Reichenbach Fall

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 1st January 2014 Fans around the world are eagerly awaiting Episode 1 of the third season of Sherlock, in which the mystery of how the consulting detective faked his own death will be … Continue reading

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“The Sword and the Pen: Two Swashbuckling Stories”

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 13th February 2014 We’re happy to announce the publication of The Sword and the Pen in both print and e-book formats. Egerton Castle, famous as a pioneer of the late-Victorian revival of Elizabethan swordsmanship, … Continue reading

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Fight Scene from “Suffragette”

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 21st April 2014 Below: a stuntman and stuntwoman rehearse a fight scene on the set of Suffragette, currently in production in London. The movie is scheduled to be released in 2015.

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Victorian Street Fighting in “Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate”

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 23rd October 2015 The protagonists of the newly released game Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate, Jacob and Evie Frye, display their hand-to-hand combat skills in this promotional video. Although the kukri knife and wrist dagger … Continue reading

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A Melange of Mayhem from Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 16th December 2015 Ten solid minutes of Victorian violence are on display in this compilation of finishing moves from the Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate video game, which is set in the world of 19th century … Continue reading

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“Houdini & Doyle” TV Series to Showcase “Supernatural” Edwardian Mysteries

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 9th December 2015 Back in 2011 we reported the pre-production of no less than three media projects based on the premise that Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle teamed up to fight crime. … Continue reading

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Presenting Miss Persephone Wright …

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 11th June 2014 A special advance glimpse of Miss Persephone Wright, radical suffragette and Bartitsu-trained bodyguard, who stars in the Suffrajitsu graphic novel trilogy to be published by Jet City Comics.

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