{"product_id":"flaxman-low-occult-detective-9780262051651","title":"Flaxman Low: Occult Detective","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe weird--and weirdly delightful--adventures of fiction's first occult detective.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262051651\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260","brand":"E. and H. Heron","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52239240921269,"sku":"9780262051651","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_a2c8936a-2437-4efb-aaab-b78f0530cd3d.jpg?v=1770917396","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/flaxman-low-occult-detective-9780262051651","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}