Ghostly Clients and Demonic Culprits: The Roots of Occult Detective Fiction

Bys: Riddell, Charlotte, Hoffmann, E. T. a., Taylor, Bayard

Before Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Agents Mulder and Scully, and Carl Kolchak . . . Before Jules de Grandin, John Silence, and Carnacki the Ghost Finder . . . The roots of occult detective fiction reach as far back as ancient Rome, where two master plots emerged. The first involves a character whose courage and intelligence solves the mystery of a troubled spirit: a ghostly client. In the second, a character must investigate and vanquish a much more wicked supernatural foe: a demonic culprit. Showcasing E.T.A. Hoffmann, Charlotte Riddell, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Machen, and other authors, Ghostly Clients & Demonic Culprits charts the history of both plots, from antiquity to fully formed occult detectives in the early 1900s.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1948084066
• ISBN13: 9781948084062
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Brom Bones Books
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"