{"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eE. and H. Heron was a collective pseudonym used by the English writers Hesketh Prichard (1876-1922) and his mother, Kate O'Brien Ryall Prichard (1851-1935). \"Hex\" was an explorer, cricketer, naturalist, soldier, and travel writer. Kate, also an intrepid globetrotter, voyaged with her son to many remote locations; Rio Caterina, in Patagonia, is named after her. In addition to creating \u003ci\u003eFlaxman Low\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the first modern occult detectives in fiction, the duo wrote stories about Captain Rallywood and Don Q. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlexander B. Joy earned a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eLegend of the River King\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52127696421138,"sku":"9780262051651","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6824e494-1294-4a6d-bd26-bc10fa5a9de1.jpg?v=1773743705","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/flaxman-low-occult-detective-9780262051651","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}