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Flaxman Low: Occult Detective

Flaxman Low: Occult Detective

E. and H. Heron
Joy, Alexander B.
Joy, Alexander B.

Paperback

Series: Mit Press / Radium Age

Science FictionGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0262051656
ISBN13: 9780262051651
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Mar 10 2026
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.38 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
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 1898-1899. His 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.

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