The weird—and weirdly delightful—adventures of fiction’s first occult detective.Flaxman Low, literature’s first professional, full-time “occult detective”—that is, an intrepid investigator who deploys the scientific method when tackling paranormal phenomena—appeared in a dozen stories first published from 1898–1899His creators, the mother-and-son team Kate O’Brien Ryall Prichard and Hesketh “Hex” Prichard (who published as “E. and H. Heron”), endowed the Oxford-trained psychologist with the bravery and acumen to tackle every sort of adversary from ghosts, mummies, and vampires to a mushroom mannequin.
Both less credulous and less cynical than earlier fictional investigators of the spirit world, Low always triumphs in the end . . . but not before scientifically demonstrating that even the most outré incidents and situations can’t hold a candle to the bizarre capacities of the human mind.
| Format |
Häftad |
| Omfång |
264 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
MIT Press Ltd |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2026-03-10 |
| ISBN |
9780262051651 |
