The Ghost SlayersThrilling Tales of Occult Detection
A new volume exploring one of the most popular subgenres of weird fiction which has influenced hundreds of popular television series and films. Featuring rare stories not seen since their first appearance in limited-run periodicals. Appealing to readers of supernatural fiction, and classic detective fiction.
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.
Contents
Introduction by Mike Ashley
1. The Story of the Moor Road by Hesketh Prichard and Kate Prichard
2. A Psychical Invasion (1908) by Algernon Blackwood
3. The Searcher of the End House (1910) by William Hope Hodgson
4. The Fear (1914) by Alice Askew and Claude Askew
5. The Valley of the Veils of Death (1914) by Bertram Atkey
6. The Death Hound (1922) by Dion Fortune
7. The Case of the Fortunate Youth (1927) by Moray Dalton
8. Forgotten Harbour by Gordon Malherbe Hillman
9. In Death As in Life(1963) by Joseph Payne Brennan
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Mike Ashley
Mike Ashley is the author and editor of more than 100 books, and is one of the foremost historians of popular fiction. His books include Adventures in The Strand (British Library, 2016), Out of This World, a brief illustrated history of science fiction (British Library, 2011), and The Age of Storytellers: British Popular Fiction Magazines 1880-1950 (British Library, 2005). Most recently he is the author of a multi-volume history of science fiction magazines, published by Liverpool University Press.
British Library Tales of the Weird
The British Library Tales of the Weird series revives and unearths classic strange fiction from the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the form of novels, single-author collections and thematic anthologies, complete with new introductions and fascinating notes by expert editors.
British Library Tales of the Weird consists of seventy-six books and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of two more books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
