COmbined LIterary SERVices
     The major purpose of this web site is to serve as a home base and launching pad for a number of Literary Societies and Services, hence the name...

     Currently, these are the Societies and Services we support:

    Sherlock Holmes - Mystery Groups:
  • The Trained Cormorants
    (The oldest Scion Society of the Baker Street Irregulars still in existence in Southern California.)

  • The Blustering Gales from the South-West
    (A Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Victoriana based Scion Society of the Baker Street Irregulars, located in the South-Bay region of Los Angeles County, in Southern California.)

  • The Curious Collectors of Baker Street
    (The largest Scion Society of the Baker Street Irregulars in Southern California.)

  • The Southwest Manuscripters
    (A veteran writers' group which hosted Ray Bradbury's visits to the Torrance area each year until his passing, and has been doing so since it began in 1949.)

  • The Goose Club of the Alpha Inn
    The Goose Club of the Alpha Inn, founded in 1977, is one of several Sherlock Holmes societies based in the Los Angeles area.


Science Fiction Societies - Newsletters
  • Ben's Hammer
    Ben's Hammer, a newsletter of Science Fiction and Fantasy oriented News and Resources.

  • The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society
    LASFS - The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, founded in 1934, is one of the oldest SF Societies still in existence.