Supernatural Sherlocks : stories from the golden age of the occult detective

Supernatural Sherlocks Stories from the golden age of the occult detective

Book - 2017

"The ghost of a poor Afghan returns to haunt the doctor who once amputated his hand. A mysterious and malignant force inhabits a room in an ancestral home and attacks all who sleep in it. A man who desecrates an Indian temple is transformed into a ravening beast. A castle in the Tyrol is the setting for an aristocratic murderer's apparent resurrection. In the stories in this collection, horrors from beyond the grave and other dimensions visit the everyday world and demand to be investigated...The period between 1890 and 1930 was a Golden Age for the occult detective. Famous authors like Kipling and Conan Doyle wrote stories about them, as did less familiar writers such as the occultist and magician Dion Fortune and Henry S. Whiteh...ead, a friend of H. P. Lovecraft and fellow-contributor to the pulp magazines of the period. Nick Rennison has chosen 15 tales from that era to raise the hair and chill the spines of modern readers."--Amazon.com

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Subjects
Private investigators > England > Fiction.
Spirits > Fiction.
Monsters > Fiction.
Short stories, English.
Horror tales, English.
Detective and mystery stories, English.
Short stories.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Horror fiction.
Paranormal fiction.
Genres
Short stories
Detective and mystery fiction
Horror fiction
Paranormal fiction
Published
Harpenden, Herts : No Exit Press 2017.
Language
English
Other Authors
Nick Rennison, 1955- (editor)
Physical Description
287 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN
9781843449751
  • The mark of the beast / Rudyard Kipling
  • In Kropfsberg Keep / Ralph Adams Cram
  • Number ninety / BM Croker
  • An expiation / Arabella Kenealy
  • The blue room / Lettice Galbraith
  • The story of Yand Manor House / E and H Heron
  • The brown hand / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The dead hand / LT Meade & Robert Eustace
  • The gateway of the monster / William Hope Hodgson
  • The boy of Blackstock / Alice and Claude Askew
  • The Governess's story / Amyas Northcote
  • The voice in the night / WJ Wintle
  • The death hound / Dion Fortune
  • The shunned house / HP Lovercraft
  • The shut room / Henry S Whitehead.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Mystery readers are most likely to associate the golden age with classic tales of rational thinking, but that era of a century or more ago also produced memorable investigations into the supernatural, as shown by this well-conceived anthology from Rennison (The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes). Two of the best of the 15 entries feature series leads whose names echo Holmes's own: Kate and Hesketh Pritchard's Flaxman Low, and Alice and Claude Askew's Aylmer Vance, who each use their deductive skills to find the truth behind bizarre phenomena. In "The Story of Yand Manor House," Low tackles an entity that makes remaining in a dining room life-threatening. In "The Boy of Blackstock," Vance and his Watsonian sidekick confront the spirit of a murdered man that reawakens after the reopening of a sealed room. Rennison includes the best-known occult sleuth of the period-William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki, represented by "The Gateway of the Monster"-as well as contributions from such famous authors as Rudyard Kipling and Conan Doyle. Fans of The X-Files and Stranger Things will relish these literary precursors. (Apr.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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