John Silence, and William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki the Ghost Finder. Heron's Flaxman Low, featured in a series of stories in Pearson's Magazine (1898–99), Algernon Blackwood's Dr. Abraham Van Helsing in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897), followed closely by E.
The next prominent figure in this tradition was Dr. However, by the story's end, the villain turns out to be completely human and mundane, who deliberately created this misleading impression. Martin Hesselius appeared in "Green Tea" (1869) and later became a framing device for Le Fanu's short story collection In a Glass Darkly (1872).įor most of its plot, The Hound of the Baskervilles, one of Sherlock Holmes's most well-known adventures, seems to belong in this genre. The narrator of Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novella "The Haunted and the Haunters or, The House and the Brain" (1859) is another student of the supernatural who probes a mystery involving a culprit with paranormal abilities. A specialist in supernatural phenomena, Escott investigates a ghost in "The Pot of Tulips" (1855) and an invisible entity in "What Was It? A Mystery" (1859). Some occult detectives are portrayed as being psychic or in possession of other paranormal or magical powers.įitz James O’Brien’s character Harry Escott is a contender for first occult detective in fiction. Unlike the traditional detective who investigates murder and other common crimes, the occult detective is employed in cases involving ghosts, demons, curses, magic, vampires, undead, monsters and other supernatural elements. Occult detective fiction is a subgenre of detective fiction that combines the tropes of the main genre with those of supernatural, fantasy and/or horror fiction.
Occult detective Carnacki inspecting the "queer, soft, flabby, spreading foot-print" of an apparent ghost, in the 1910 story "The Searcher of the End House" Fantasy
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