Bedtime Story

Bedtime Story cover

Bedtime Story is a fanfiction short story set in the BBC’s Sherlock universe.

The child Sherlock detests ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and all it stands for. One evening, he finds a new babysitter who completely shares his opinion. She decides to tell him a rather more interesting story instead.

Warnings: The author chooses not to warn.

Acknowledgements:
Thanks to caulkhead for betaing.

The original line drawing of a snail on the cover is by Pearson Scott Foresman. The design itself was inspired by those of Andrew Ashton for the famous Conn and Hal Iggulden’s book - The Dangerous Book For Boys. The fonts used in this book are from the Source Serif Pro font family by Frank Grießhammer.

The images and fonts were used under license detailed on their respective website pages at the date of this book publication.

As usual, Russ from shoes for industry designed the book cover, produced the books and compiled the on-line work.

The opinions, prejudices, faults and spelling herein are all my own work, and I apologise in advance for them.


This short story is rated PG. You might also like to consider other books set in the Sherlock fandom.

- First Edition: 3rd Jul 2011
- 2nd Edition: 22nd Feb 2013
- 3rd Edition: 5th May 2021

This work is created as a transformative work on a not-for-profit basis. All rights in the underlying properties are those of their respective holders.


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