num_pages: 288
description: 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 Hodgsons Carnacki the Ghost Finder and Algernon Blackwoods 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.
language: English
title: The Ghost Slayers: Thrilling Tales of Occult Detection
publisher: British Library Publishing