The Ghost Slayers: Thrilling Tales of Occult Detection
Paperback Published on: 24/03/2022
Price: £10.99
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Intriguing
This is a collection of short stories themed around psychic detectives, written mainly in the late Victorian period or early twentieth century. It is good ... READ MORE
Creepy and delightful
I was lucky enough to receive a copy of 'The Ghost Slayers' from the British Library and have since started collecting all the books in the 'Tales of the W... READ MORE
An engaging selection of occult detective investigations
I absolutely love an occult detective story. It was my gateway drug into all the wyrd wonderfulness that I feature on the Wyrd Britain blog. I get that f... READ MORE
Terrifying
I have enjoyed many of these British Library republication of victorian short stories. I find it facinating to see how story telling has evolved over the l... READ MORE
Synopsis
Occult or psychic detective tales have been chilling readers for almost as long as there have been ghost stories. This beguiling subgenre follows specialists in occult lore - often with years of arcane training - investigating strange supernatural occurrences and pitting their wits against the bizarre and inexplicable.
With tales featuring the most prominent psychic detectives such as William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki, the Ghost Finder and Algernon Blackwood's Dr. Silence, this new collection also includes rare and never-before-reprinted cases investigated by the likes of Flaxman Low, Cosmo Thor, Aylmer Vance and Mesmer Milann.
Publisher information
- Publisher: British Library Publishing
- ISBN: 9780712354165
- Number of pages: 288
- Dimensions: 190 x 130 mm
- Languages: English