{"product_id":"flaxman-low-by-e-and-h-heron","title":"Flaxman Low : Occult Detective by E. \u0026 H. Heron","description":"\u003cp\u003eTrade Paperback.  Recommended!  A singularly weird and eerie collection of old ghost hunting tales.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe weird—and weirdly delightful—adventures of fiction’s first occult detective.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlaxman Low, literature’s first professional, full-time “occult detective”—that is, an intrepid investigator who deploys the scientific method when tackling paranormal phenomena—appeared in a dozen stories first published from 1898–1899. His creators, the mother-and-son team Kate O’Brien Ryall Prichard and Hesketh “Hex” 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 outré incidents and situations can’t hold a candle to the bizarre capacities of the human mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by Alexander B. Joy\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50056143700161,"sku":"FLAXMANLOW","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0367\/4406\/9251\/files\/81gdtK7yPCL._SL1500.jpg?v=1773591595","url":"https:\/\/greenhandbookshop.com\/products\/flaxman-low-by-e-and-h-heron","provider":"Green Hand Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}