The Foundations of Fiction - Paranormal Detective: Hear the stories that gave birth to the modern genre craze - William Hope Hodgson, Rudyard Kipling, Algernon Blackwood, Gertrude Minnie Robins, L T Meade and Robert Eustace, Rose Champion de Crespigny, Aleister Crowley, Arabella Kenealy, Sheridan Le Fanu, Allen Upward, Eric Purves, Kate and Hesketh Pritchard & Harold Begbie

The Foundations of Fiction - Paranormal Detective: Hear the stories that gave birth to the modern genre craze

By William Hope Hodgson, Rudyard Kipling, Algernon Blackwood, Gertrude Minnie Robins, L T Meade and Robert Eustace, Rose Champion de Crespigny, Aleister Crowley, Arabella Kenealy, Sheridan Le Fanu, Allen Upward, Eric Purves, Kate and Hesketh Pritchard & Harold Begbie

  • Release Date: 2024-11-11
  • Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
  • © 2024 Deadtree Publishing

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The Foundations of Fiction - Paranormal William Hope Hodgson, Rudyard Kipling, Algernon Blackwood, Gertrude Minnie Robins, L T Meade and Robert Eustace, Rose Champion de Crespigny, Aleister Crowley, Arabella Kenealy, Sheridan Le Fanu, Allen Upward, Eric Purves, Kate and Hesketh Pritchard & Harold Begbie

Summary : The Foundations of Fiction - Paranormal Detective: Hear the stories that gave birth to the modern genre craze

In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.
Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.

Success undoubtedly builds success and in literary terms we can more politely say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and the surest way to reach a hungry readership is to build on the fortune and flair of your literary colleagues.

A crime is committed and the forces of good and the law go to work on deducing and apprehending a culprit. However, when those detectives have some rather special skills that involve the paranormal, stories become something more. Logic becomes elastic as the forces of good come into contact with malevolent and dark forces that harbour evil and ill-will. However, with the aid of the paranormal, the Occult Detective will be getting to the truth in ways that only they were born too.

01 - Foundations of Fiction - Paranormal Detective - An Introduction

2 - Carnacki, The Ghost Finder - No1 - The Gateway of the Monster by William Hope Hodgson

3 - Mark of the Beast By Rudyard Kipling

4 - The Death Hound by Violet Mary Firth writing as Dion Fortune

5 - John Silence, Physician Extraordinary by Algernon Blackwood

6 - The Man With No Face by Gertrude Minnie Robins

7 - The Dead Hand by L T Meade and Robert Eustace

8 - The Moving Finger by Rose Champion de Crespigny

9 - Ineligible by Aleister Crowley

10 - An Expiation by Arabella Kenealy

11 - Green Tea by Sheridan Le Fanu

12 - The Story of the Green House, Wallington by Allen Upward

13 - The House of the Black Evil by Eric Purves

14 - The Story of 'The Spaniards', Hammersmith by Kate and Hesketh Pritchard

15 - The Murder in an Omnibus by Harold Begbie

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