The Ghost Slayers

Thrilling Tales of Occult Detection

Mike Ashley

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British Library
01 September 2022

Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Classic crime; Classic horror & ghost stories; Short Stories Horror

Series: Tales of the Weird

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.

Edited by: Mike Ashley
Imprint: British Library
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 29
Dimensions: Height: 190mm, Width: 130mm,
ISBN: 9780712354165
ISBN 10: 0712354166
Series: Tales of the Weird
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 September 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mike Ashley is an author, anthologist and editor with a specialism for seeking out rare strange stories from the periodicals and magazines of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is an expert in the fields of weird fiction and classic mystery stories, and a leading authority on the history and development of the occult detection tale.