E and H Heron: Flaxman Low, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Flaxman Low
- Occult Detective
- Publisher:
- Alexander B Joy
- Publisher:
- MIT Press, 03/2026
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780262051651
- Item number:
- 12283691
- Volume:
- 260 Pages
- Weight:
- 368 g
- Release date:
- 10.3.2026
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
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.