<p>Contemporaries of Sherlock Holmes, the occult detectives were Victorian- and Edwardian-era investigators concerned with all manner of psychic, spectral and paranormal matters, eager to separate reality&mdash;no matter how bizarre&mdash;from hoaxers and con men.</p><p>In this volume, fourteen tales of ghostly encounters with investigators Thomas Carnacki, Mr. Harry Escott and Mr. Flaxman Low, plus an anonymous dealing with a haunted house in the midst of London.</p>