Alice & Claude Askew - Aylmer Vance: Ghost-Seer

This is a collection of eight ghost stories, written by the remarkably prolific husband and wife team of Claude and Alice Askew, centering on Aylmer Vance, an investigator of the supernatural. Dexter, the narrator, meets Vance during a fishing holiday and Vance tells him three ghost stories on successive nights, each story involving Vance more closely in the action. The fourth story brings Dexter himself into the action, and reveals him to have unsuspected clairvoyant powers. The remaining stories feature Vance and Dexter as a sort of Holmes-and-Watson team investigating incidents not all of which prove to have supernatural causes.

The final story, “The Fear” is very effective, describing a house in which a general feeling of extreme fear grips the inhabitants at various times and locations; the emotion of fear is effectively evoked and an interesting tale is constructed as Vance and Dexter work to assign the fear “a local habitation and a name”.

Pages: 164
ISBN: 9781329376342

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What if... No 3 - Occult Detective Fiction

Special issue - Occult Detective Stories

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Robert E Howard - Steve Harrison and Colleagues

Robert E Howard is well known for his stories about Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre. But he also wrote horror-, fantasy- and mystery- stories. This nice collection contains his supernatural detective stories about Steve Harrison and others like him, men investigating crimes of supernatural character.

Pages: 388
ISBN: 9781312184954

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H P Lovecraft - Randolph Carter

Carter is a quiet and melancholy dreamer with a sensitive disposition, prone to fainting during times of emotional stress. But he can also be courageous, with enough strength of mind and character to face and foil the horrific creatures of the Dreamlands. Randolph Carter is an antiquarian and one-time student of the Miskatonic University. Based on clues from various stories, he was probably born around 1874 and grew up in and around Boston. At the age of nine, he underwent a mysterious experience at his great-uncle Christopher's farm and thereafter exhibited a gift of prophecy. He is the descendant of Sir Randolph Carter, who had studied magic during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Sir Randolph had then emigrated to America and his son Edmund Carter later had to flee the Salem witch-trials. Carter also had an ancestor involved in one of the Crusades, who was captured by the Muslims and learned "wild secrets" from them. 

This volume contains all of H P Lovecraft’s stories about Randolph Carter.

Pages: 348
ISBN: 9781312184930

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Dion Fortune - The Secrets of Dr John Richard Taverner

Dr Taverner is an occult Sherlock Holmes, an esoteric Master who uses his powers to aid 'untreatable' patients for whom orthodox medical science can do nothing. Utilizing his knowledge of White Magic, he fights an unrelenting battle against vampires, death-hounds, body-snatchers and members of the nefarious Black Lodge. Well-written and briskly paced, these twelve stories stand on their own merits - but there is more to these tales than meets the eye. Dion Fortune was herself a mage, a high initiate of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and founder of the Society of the Inner Light. The tales she tells are based on real events, and she uses 'The Secrets of Dr Taverner' as a vehicle to introduce the reader to magical practices and many arcane principles of occult law. Each story in this collection is a complete case, as gripping and as entertaining as the stories of Sherlock Holmes. They take you into the inner worlds of the human mind — a world full of strange twists and unexpected happenings!

Pages: 248
ISBN  9781304999542

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Sax Rohmer - The Dream Detective

Sax Rohmer - The Dream Detective
Ten stories featuring perhaps the most fantastic sleuth of them all: Moris Klaw, the Dream Detective. Accompanied by his beautiful daughter Isis, Klaw's mysterious abilities lead him to clues and answers concerning occult occurrances far beyond the ken of ordinary minds. Moris Klaw is a gifted eccentric in the Holmesian mode. The proprietor of a ramshackle antique shop in Wapping, Klaw is a tall, stoop-shouldered man, of indeterminate age and unidentifiable foreign acccent, with skin the color of "dirty vellum". He wears gold pince-nez, a flat bowler hat, and an old black cape, and is not only an expert in the legends and lore of valuable historical objects, but also a master of disguise.

Pages: 228
ISBN  9781304999078

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J. Sheridan Le Fanu - In a Glass Darkly

This remarkable collection of stories, by Sheridan Le Fanu, includes Green Tea, The Familiar, Mr. Justice Harbottle, The Room in the Dragon Volant, and Carmilla. The five stories are purported to be cases by Dr. Hesselius, a 'metaphysical' doctor, who is willing to consider the ghosts both as real and as hallucinatory obsessions. The reader's doubtful anxiety mimics that of the protagonist, and each story thus creates that atmosphere of mystery which is the supernatural experience.

Pages: 352
ISBN 9781304997821

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E. & H. Hernon - Flaxman Low, Occult Psychologist

Flaxman Low is a psychic detective of a pure Sherlock Holmes-ian style. He investigates and solves psychic mysteries with no tools other than his immense knowledge of supernatural phenomena and his keen powers of observation. Flaxman Low is the last hope for those unfortunate people who are faced with a mystery that seems beyond all natural laws, and which imperils not only their bodies, but in some cases their very souls. Flaxman Low was one of the original detectives. His adventures were published in 1898-99. He's basically Sherlock Holmes, called in for his unassailable calm in the face of ghosts or elementals or other evil creatures. This volume contains all the twelve stories.

Pages 184
ISBN:  9781304838452

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L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace - John Bell, A Master of Mysteries

A Master of Mysteries, first published in 1898, concerning John Bell, a 'professional exposer of ghosts' who solves the mysteries of haunted houses. "It so happened that the circumstances of fate allowed me to follow my own bent in the choice of a profession. From my earliest youth the weird, the mysterious had an irresistible fascination for me. Having private means, I resolved to follow my unique inclinations, and I am now well known to all my friends as a professional exposer of ghosts, and one who can clear away the mysteries of most haunted houses....I propose in these pages to relate the histories of certain queer events, enveloped at first in mystery, and apparently dark with portent, but, nevertheless, when grappled with in the true spirit of science, capable of explanation." - from the Introduction to "A Master of Mysteries".

Pages: 168
ISBN: 9781304838513

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Algernon Blackwood - John Silence, Physician Extraordinary

Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was an English writer of tales of the supernatural. The character of John Silence pioneered the "psychic detective" genre. This volume contains all six stories of John Silence and his investinations into the paranormal.

254 pages

ISBN 9781409239994

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William Hope Hodgson - Carnacki, Supernatural Detective

Carnacki, Supernatural Detective is a collection of supernatural detective short stories by author William Hope Hodgson. It was published first during 1913 (as "Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder") by the English publisher Eveleigh Nash. A new edition, with three additional stories, was published 1947 by Mycroft & Moran, an edition of 3,050 copies. The Mycroft & Moran version is listed as No. 52 in Queen's Quorum: A History of the Detective-Crime Short Story As Revealed by the 100 Most Important Books Published in this Field Since 1845 by Ellery Queen.

This collection contains all the stories.

No 5 in Dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult.

162 pages

ISBN 9781409235118

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