The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember. Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation or bunch of red herrings into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.

Here, we take matters one stage further with a volume that covers the Occult Detectives. In many ways they are a class apart, their ways of working with mysterious forces, both intriguing and exciting as they unmask situations and criminals either of this world or the next.

It follows that this genre is also chock full of brilliant literary talents from Algernon Blackwood to William Hope Hodgson, Rudyard Kipling and many others, some who have been unjustly forgotten over the decades but who's rediscovery is very timely and very welcome.

01 - The Occult Detective - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction

02 - Carnacki, The Ghost Finder - No 1 - The Gateway of the Monster by William Hope Hodgson

03 - The Moving Finger by Rose Champion de Crespigny

04 - The Dead Hand by L T Meade and Robert Eustace

05 - The Man With No Face by Gertrude Minnie Robins

06 - John Silence, Physican Extraordinary by Algernon Blackwood

07 - An Expiation by Arabella Kenealy

08 - The Death Hound by Violet Mary Firth writng as Dion Fortune

09 - The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling

10 - The Story of the Green House, Wallington by Allen Upward

11 - The Story of 'The Spaniards', Hammersmith by Kate and Hesketh Pritchard