Michael Ashley

Thrilling Tales of Occult Detection

Ghost Slayers

a pretty good foray into the foundations of the ghost (monster) hunter genre. the selection was both exciting and atmospheric and deliciously grim.

it was interesting to me that up to 50 years ago, the genre primarily lived in the form of short stories and episodic adventures - very much like the detective genre - and how this has nearly disappeared now. this collection firmed my belief that we need to revive the popularity of the short story as a form. 

favourite stories were 'a psychical invasion' by algernon blackwood (john silence), 'the searcher of the end house' by william hope hodgson (thomas carnacki), 'the valley of the veils of death' by bertram atkey (mesmer milann), 'the death hound' by dion fortune (dr. taverner) and 'in death as in life' by joseph payne brennan (lucius leffing)

Ghost Slayers Thrilling Tales of Occult Detection

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