Foundations of Fiction, The - Paranormal Detective

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