History NightmareFuel / SherlockHolmes

* ''The Last Sherlock Holmes Story'' by Michael Dibdin is considered one of the most disturbing Holmes patisches ever made. What makes it so frightening is TheReveal of who Jack the Ripper is: [[spoiler: Holmes himself.]] Watson finds out by witnessing [[spoiler:Holmes savagely mutilating the body of Mary Jane Kelly]] while humming ''La donne e mobile'' and stumbling on a hidden room full of the victims' organs in jars. [[spoiler:Driven mad by his own boredom and cocaine, Holmes has disassociative identity disorder, with one of his personalities being ''Moriarty'' and is now murdering a pregnant woman who he just drank and talked with mere hours before while believing that he was protecting her from Moriarty.]] [[spoiler:This leads to the climax where he finally realizes what has happened to him and commits suicide at Reichenbach Falls in front of Watson.]] Watson is so broken by the experience that he locks his report away in a box, with the instructions to not open it until 1976.

* ''The Last Sherlock Holmes Story'' by Michael Dibdin is considered one of the most disturbing Holmes patisches ever made. What makes it so frightening is TheReveal of who Jack the Ripper is: [[spoiler: Holmes himself.]] Watson finds out by witnessing [[spoiler:Holmes]] savagely mutilating the body of Mary Jane Kelly while humming ''La donne e mobile'' and stumbling on a hidden room full of the victims' organs in jars. [[spoiler:Driven mad by his own boredom and cocaine, Holmes has disassociative identity disorder, with one of his personalities being ''Moriarty'' and is now murdering Mary, who he just drank and talked with mere hours before while believing that he was protecting her from Moriarty.]] [[spoiler:This leads to the climax where he finally realizes what has happened to him and commits suicide at Reichenbach Falls in front of Watson.]] Watson is so broken by the experience that he locks his report away in a box, with the instructions to not open it until 1976.

* ''The Last Sherlock Holmes Story'' by Michael Dibdin is considered one of the most disturbing Holmes patisches ever made. What makes it so frightening is TheReveal of who Jack the Ripper is: [[spoiler: Holmes himself.]] Watson finds out by witnessing [[spoiler:Holmes]] cutting up a woman's body while humming ''La donne e mobile'', and stumbling on a hidden room full of the victims' organs in jars. [[spoiler:Driven mad by his own boredom and cocaine, Holmes has disassociative identity disorder, with one of his personalities being ''Moriarty'' and is now murdering a woman he just drank and talked with mere hours before while believing that he was protecting her from Moriarty.]] [[spoiler:This leads to the climax where he finally realizes what has happened to him and commits suicide at Reichenbach Falls in front of Watson.]] Watson is so broken by the experience that he locks his report away in a box, with the instructions to not open it until 1976.

* ''The Last Sherlock Holmes Story'' by Michael Dibdin is considered one of the most disturbing Holmes patisches ever made. What makes it so frightening is TheReveal of who Jack the Ripper is: [[spoiler: Holmes himself.]] Watson finds out by witnessing [[spoiler:Holmes]] cutting up a woman's body while singing, and a hidden room full of the victims' organs in jars. [[spoiler:Driven mad by his own boredom and cocaine, Holmes has disassociative identity disorder, with one of his personalities being ''Moriarty'' and is now murdering a woman he just drank and talked with mere hours before while believing that he was protecting her from Moriarty.]] [[spoiler:This leads to the climax where he finally realizes what has happened to him and commits suicide at Reichenbach Falls in front of Watson.]] Watson is so broken by the experience that he locks his report away in a box, with the instructions to not open it until 1976.

* ''The Last Sherlock Holmes Story'' by Michael Dibdin is considered one of the most disturbing Holmes patisches ever made. What makes it so frightening is TheReveal of who Jack the Ripper is: [[spoiler: Holmes himself.]] Watson finds out by witnessing [[spoiler:Holmes]] cutting up a woman's body while singing, and a hidden room full of the victims' organs in jars. [[spoiler:Driven mad by his own boredom and cocaine, Holmes has disassociative identity disorder, with one of his personalities being ''Moriarty'', leading to the climax where he commits suicide at Reichenbach Falls.]] The revelation is so terrible that Watson locks his report away in a box, with the instructions to not open it until 1976.

* ''The Last Sherlock Holmes Story'' by Michael Dibdin is considered one of the most disturbing Holmes patisches ever made. What makes it so frightening is TheReveal of Jack the Ripper is: [[spoiler: Holmes himself.]] Watson finds out by witnessing [[spoiler:Holmes]] cutting up a woman's body while singing, and a hidden room full of the victims' organs in jars. [[spoiler:Driven mad by his own boredom and cocaine, Holmes has disassociative identity disorder, with one of his personalities being ''Moriarty'', leading to the climax where he commits suicide at Reichenbach Falls.]] The revelation is so terrible that Watson locks his report away in a box, with the instructions to not open it until 1976.

* ''The Last Sherlock Holmes Story'' by Michael Dibdin has a horrifying revelation on the Jack the Ripper Murders: [[spoiler: Holmes himself was the Ripper. Watson finds out by witnessing Holmes cutting up a woman's body while singing, and his hidden room full of the victims' organs in jars. Driven mad by his own boredom and cocaine, Holmes has disassociative identity disorder, with one of his personalities being ''Moriarty'', leading to the climax where he commits suicide at Reichenbach Falls.]] The revelation is so terrible that Watson locks his report away in a box, with the instructions to not open it until 1976.

* ''The Last Sherlock Holmes Story'' by Michael Dibdin has a horrifying revelation on the Jack the Ripper Murders: [[spoiler: Holmes himself was the Ripper. Watson finds out by witnessing Holmes cutting up a woman's body while singing, and his hidden room full of the victims' organs in jars. Driven mad partially by his own paranoia and drug use, Holmes has disassociative identity disorder, with one of his personalities being ''Moriarty'', leading to the climax where he commits suicide at Reichenbach Falls.]] The revelation is so terrible that Watson locks his report away in a box, with the instructions to not open it until 1976.

* ''The Last Sherlock Holmes Story'' by Michael Dibdin has a horrifying revelation on the Jack the Ripper Murders: [[spoiler: Holmes himself was the Ripper, and Watson finds out by witnessing Holmes cutting up a woman's body while singing. Driven mad partially by his own paranoia and drug use, Holmes has disassociative identity disorder, with one of his personalities being ''Moriarty'', leading to the climax where he commits suicide at Reichenbach Falls.]] The revelation is so terrible that Watson locks his report away in a box, with the instructions to not open it until 1976.

** In ''The Copper Beeches'', Violet is clearly creeped out by her prospective employer, who seems willing to offer her a suspiciously high sum of money to be a live-in governess based on her appearance alone, and wishes her to rearrange her habits to suit her whims. But despite this, the head of the hiring agency flat out tells her that if she doesn't take the job, they would have to assume that she wasn't serious about seeking employment because she wouldn't take the first offer available despite it coming from someone who obviously made her uncomfortable, and strike her from the list of employees the agency would recommend to clients. Lovely working environment there. And yes, this happened in the original story.

* In "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax," the titular woman turns out to have been kidnapped by a couple of con artists, smothered in chloroform, and ''[[PrimalFear locked in a coffin]] '''togdther with an actual corpse'''''. Holmes and Watson arrive just in time to prevent her from being [[BuriedAlive buried alive]], and even then it takes all of Watson's medical expertise to revive her.

* In "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax," the titular woman turns out to have been kidnapped by a couple of con artists, smothered in chloroform, and ''[[PrimalFear locked in a coffin]]''. Holmes and Watson arrive just in time to prevent her from being [[BuriedAlive buried alive]], and even then it takes all of Watson's medical expertise to revive her.

* "The Speckled Band," especially if you don't like snakes. And, as in the above story, the Stoker sisters are likewise at the mercy of their cruel and vindictive step-father who's perfectly willing to dispose of them if they threaten his income, and poor Julia falls victim to his malice.

** In ''The Copper Beeches'', Violet is clearly creeped out by her prospective employer, who seems willing to offer her a suspiciously high sum of money to be a live-in governess based on her appearance alone, and wishes her to rearrange her habits to suit her whims. But despite this, the head of the hiring agency flat out tells her that if she doesn't take the job, they would have to assume that she wasn't serious about seeking employment because she wouldn't take the first offer available despite it coming from someone who obviously made her uncomfortable, and strike her from the list of employees the agency would recommend to clients. Lovely working environment there.

* ''The Valley of Fear'' is aptly named. The Scowrers would be scary enough, but it's the looming background threat of Moriarty that makes the story really ominous. He's brilliant, he's merciless, he has the wealth and power of an enormous criminal empire at his command, and he orchestrates his crimes so carefully and blends in so seamlessly that even ''Holmes'' can't prove anything against him. [[spoiler: And he wins in the end.]]

* The reveal of what happened to the missing wife of the eponymous ""The Retired Colourman""

** In the Granada television version there's an increidbly tense scene with very creepy music as Holmes and Watson sit in the dark, waiting in dread for whatever's going to come through the ventilation shaft. Eventually Holmes lights a candle and... [[NothingIsScarier sees what's lying on the bed off-screen]]; Jeremy Brett really sells the fear that even Holmes must be feeling as he carefully stands up and prepares to try and drive off an incredibly dangerous animal.

* "The Three Garridebs" Watson getting Wounded, and that threat to Evans.
** '''Holmes''': [[TranquilFury By the lord, it is well for you. If you had killed Watson, you would not have gotten out of this room alive.]]

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* The very first Story, "A Study in Scarlet", presents Mormons as having a sinister Men in Black force of keepers who will find you and kill you no matter where you hide. Ditto the KKK in "Five Orange Pips".

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* The Jack the Ripper game, being based (naturally) on the Ripper killings has this in spades.

** Not to mention, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT1wWCy5spk Holmes' hallucination]] in ''The Devil's Foot'' (which is Nightmare Fuel enough by itself), plus his reaction afterwards is one of the more... ''unsettling'' scenes of the series.

** In ''The Copper Beeches'', Violet is clearly creeped out by her prospective employer, who seems willing to offer her an suspiciously high sum of money to be a live-in governess based on her appearance alone, and wishes her to rearrange her habits to suit her whims. But despite this, the head of the hiring agency flat out tells her that if she doesn't take the job, they would have to assume that she wasn't serious about seeking employment because she wouldn't take the first offer available despite it coming from someone who obviously made her uncomfortable, and strike her from the list of employees the agency would recommend to clients. Lovely working environment there.