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AUTHOR: Kate & Hesketh Prichard [originally as E. & H. Heron]
TITLE: FLAXMAN LOW Psychic Detective [originally as REAL GHOST STORIES]
PUBLISHER: Ghost Story Press
DATE: 1993
EDITION: Edition limited to 200 copies, this being no. 48 ; originally published serially in Pearson's Magazine Jaunary-June 1898 & Jaunary-June 1899 ; first collected in book form in 1899
FORMAT: hardback
PAGINATION: 118
ILLUSTRATIONS: 72 illustrations in the text by Benjamin Edward Minns, cover artwork & portrait by Andrew King
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CONDITION: NEAR FINE
Please see the photographs, which form an important part of the description.
hard cover book bound in pictorial blue board, cream lettering on spine, no dust jacket as issued, lightly rubbed, light bumps to spine tips, couple of small marks on rear board, hinges strong, binding firm, no inscriptions, very clean & bright pages, hand-numbered "48" on the limitation page
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Flaxman Low Psychic Detective
The Flaxman Low stories are widely regarded as the foundation stone of the "occult detective" genre. Written by the mother-and-son team Kate and Hesketh Prichard under the pseudonym E. & H. Heron, they first appeared in Pearson's Magazine in 1898–99, introducing a detective who approached hauntings and supernatural manifestations with cool scientific reasoning rather than superstition. Flaxman Low predates Algernon Blackwood's John Silence and William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki, making him one of the earliest and most influential psychic investigators in fiction.
This handsome Ghost Story Press edition faithfully reproduces all twelve original tales, accompanied by the seventy-two evocative illustrations by B. E. Minns that appeared in the magazine publication. Limited to just 200 numbered copies, with an introduction by Richard Dalby and striking cover artwork by Andrew King, it has become one of the most desirable modern editions of this landmark in supernatural fiction.
Widdershins Note: Long before Carnacki lit his electric pentacle or John Silence confronted the unseen, there was Flaxman Low. These stories stand at the very birth of the supernatural detective tradition, where rational enquiry meets genuine terror. An essential volume for any serious collector of classic ghost stories and weird fiction.
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