
Klinger has edited several anthologies of stories relating to Holmes, vampires, horror, and Victorian fiction, including "In the Shadow of Dracula" and "In the Shadow of Sherlock Holmes" for IDW Books and "In the Shadow of Edgar Allen Poe" for Pegasus Books.

on the "Sherlock Holmes" films starring Robert Downey, Jr. He has written dozens of articles on Sherlockiana, published 20 books on Sherlock Holmes in addition to the Norton work, and regularly teaches UCLA Extension courses on "Sherlock Holmes and His World" and "Dracula and His World." Klinger's Sherlock Holmes Reference Library has been called by the Baker Street Journal "the standard text of reference for all serious Sherlockians." He contributed essays to Playboy Magazine and the Times of London on vampires and served as the technical adviser for Warner Bros. Since the 1960s, the study of the rich fantastic literature of the Victorian writers has been Klinger's consuming passion. It received a starred review in Publishers' Weekly.

Norton in 2008, offers a similar in-depth examination of Bram Stoker's haunting classic and its historical context. THE NEW ANNOTATED DRACULA, published by W. Norton in 20, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work and nominated for every other major award in the mystery genre.

He is the editor of the three-volume collection of the short stories and novels, THE NEW ANNOTATED SHERLOCK HOLMES, published by W. Klinger is considered to be one of the world's foremost authorities on those icons of the Victorian era, Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, and Frankenstein.
