Fighters of Fear: Occult Detective Stories

Hardback

Main Details

Title Fighters of Fear: Occult Detective Stories
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Mike Ashley
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:624
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreCrime and mystery
Horror and ghost stories
Fantasy
ISBN/Barcode 9781945863523
ClassificationsDewey:823.087208
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Skyhorse Publishing
Imprint Talos
Publication Date 28 January 2020
Publication Country United States

Description

A Retrospective Collection of Classic Occult and Supernatural Detective Stories by Some of the Field's Greatest and Best-Known Weird Fiction Authors Since the gaslit nights at the end of the nineteenth century, the occult detective has been a beloved and recurring archetype. Mixing the best aspects of the detective tale and weird or supernatural f

Author Biography

Mike Ashley is the award-winning author and editor of more than one hundred books, and is one of the foremost historians of popular fiction. His books include Adventures in The Strand: Arthur Conan Doyle and the Strand Magazine, Out of This World: Science Fiction But Not as You Know It, and the biography of Algernon Blackwood, Starlight Man.