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- ISBN 9780262051651
- Dimensions: 133 x 200mm
- Publication Date: 10 Mar 2026
- Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The weird and weirdly delightful adventures of fiction s first occult detective. Flaxman Low, literature s first professional, full-time 'occult detective,' i.e., an intrepid investigator who deploys the scientific method when tackling paranormal phenomena, appeared in a dozen stories first published from 1898 99. His creators, the mother-and-son team Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard and Kate O Brien Ryall 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 outre incidents and situations can t hold a candle to the bizarre capacities of the human mind.
E. and H. Heron was a collective pseudonym used by the English writers Hesketh Prichard (1876 1922) and his mother, Kate O Brien Ryall Prichard (1851 1935). 'Hex' was an explorer, cricketer, naturalist, soldier, and travel writer. Kate, also an intrepid globetrotter, voyaged with her son to many remote locations; Rio Caterina, in Patagonia, is named after her. In addition to creating Flaxman Low, one of the first modern occult detectives in fiction, the duo wrote stories about Captain Rallywood and Don Q. Alexander B. Joy earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of Legend of the River King.
