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Instead of investigating murder and ordinary crimes, the occult detective handles cases involving ghosts, demons, curses, magic, vampires, the undead, monsters, and other paranormal threats. Protagonists may be psychic or wield magical powers. 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Unlike the traditional detective who investigates murder and other common crimes, the occult detective is employed in cases involving ghosts, demons, curses, magic, vampires, undead, monsters and other supernatural elements. Some occult detectives are portrayed as being psychic or in possession of other paranormal or magical powers.  \n\n| Contents |\n| --- |\n| History\u003Cbr>Literature\u003Cbr>Film and television Comics, manga , and anime Video and computer games\u003Cbr>See also References |\n\nHistory  \nOccult detective Carnacki inspecting the \"queer, soft , flabby, spreading foot-print\" of an apparent ghost , in the 1910 story \"The Searcher of the End House\"  \nLiterature  \nFitz James O ’Brien’s character Harry Escott is a contender for first occult detective in fiction. A specialist in supernatural phenomena, Escott investigates a ghost in \"The Pot of Tulips\" (1855) and an invisible entity in\"What Was It? A Mystery\" (1859). The narrator of Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novella \"The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain\" (1859) is another student of the supernatural who probes a mystery involving a culprit with paranormal abilities. Sheridan Le Fanu's Dr. Martin Hesselius appeared in \"Green Tea\" (1869) and later became a framing device for Le Fanu's short story collection In a Glass Darkly (1872).  \nFor most of its plot, The Hound of the Baskervilles, one of Sherlock Holmes's most well-known adventures, seems to belong in this genre. However, by the story's end, the villain turns out to be completely human and mundane, who deliberately created this misleading impression.  \nThe next prominent figure in this tradition was Dr. Abraham Van Helsing in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897), followed closely by E. and H. Heron's Flaxman Low, featured in a series of stories in Pearson's Magazine (1898–99), Algernon Blackwood's Dr. John Silence, and William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki the Ghost Finder. [1] Other supernatural sleuths in fiction dating to the late nineteenth century include Alice & Claude Askew's Aylmer Vance and Champion de Crespigny's Norton Vyse.  \nThomas Carnacki may well be considered one of the first true occult detectives, as he combined both knowledge and experience of what he calls “the ab-natural” with scientific deductive method and equipment. The adventures of Carnacki have been continued by a number of writers, including A. F. Kiddin collaboration with Rick Kennett in 472 Cheyne Walk: Carnacki, the Untold Stories (2000), William Meikle in Carnacki: Heaven and Hell (Colusa, CA: Ghost House Press, 2011), Brandon Barrows in The Castle-Town Tragedy (Dunhams Manor, 2016), and others. In addition, writers Joshua M Reynolds and John Linwood Grant have each produced a separate series of stories which follow on from Carnacki's death, and feature occult detectives whose work relates to the original tales-The Adventures of the Royal Occultist and Tales of the Last Edwardian respectively.  \nSax Rohmer's collection The Dream Detective features the occult detective Moris Klaw, who utilises \"odic force\" in his investigations. The occultist Dion Fortune made her contribution to the genre with The Secrets of Dr Taverner (1926), consisting of psychic adventures of the Holmes–like Taverner as narrated by his assistant, Dr Rhodes. Aleister Crowley's Simon Iff featured in a series of stories, some of which have been collected in book form. Dennis Wheatley's occult detective was Neils Orsen.  \nIn Poland Włodzimierz Bełcikowski created two stories (W walce ze Złotym Smokiem -In Battle with Golden Dragon - 1925; Tajemnica wiecznego życia - The Secret of Eternal Life - 1926) about William Talmes (Holmes' rip off but with occult/parapsychic powers and inventor's skills) battling murderous oriental sect and psychic vampire from Atlantis.  \nThough never large, the occul","cbCaifiTOCsWJTBn","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifiTOCsWJTBn","pdf",623063,"English","# History\n## Literature\n## Film and television\n## Comics, manga, and anime\n## Video and computer games\n## See also\n## References","[{\"question\":\"What distinguishes occult detective fiction from traditional detective fiction?\",\"answer\":\"Occult detective fiction involves supernatural or paranormal cases rather than common crimes. 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