The Lord of the Dead, is set in the 1930s and follows Steve Harrison, a hard-boiled detective who becomes entangled in a criminal conspiracy involving Erlik Khan, the primary antagonist and self-proclaimed "Lord of the Dead". Erlik Khan seeks to unite secret societies of the East under his rule using ancient magic and manipulation. The narrative incorporates elements of supernatural intrigue, reincarnation, and ancient vendettas, with Harrison being pursued by Amir Amin Izzedin, who believes Harrison is the reincarnation of a man who wronged him in a past life. The story also involves Joan La Tour, Ali ibn Suleyman (a Druse warrior caught in a cycle of reincarnation), and other figures drawn into the conflict.
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 Aylmer Vance, occult detective story. This character was created by authors Claude and Alice Askew. | Narrator and Producer MP Pellicer | www.MPPellicer.com 
 Stories: The Story of Yand Manor House by E. & H. Heron; The Brown Hand by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Narrator and Producer MP Pellicer | www.MPPellicer.com
 A story from occult reporter Gerald Canevin. | Narrator and Producer MP Pellicer | www.MPPellicer.com
 Story featuring occult detective Dr. John Silence. | Narrator and Producer MP Pellicer
 Case number 2 for occult detective, Dr. John Silence. | Narrator and Producer MP Pellicer
Weird Tales published "The Weaving Shadows" by W.H. Holmes in the March 1923 issue — the magazine's very first issue. Little is known about the author beyond a handful of story credits in The Black Cat, The Black Mask, and Weird Tales between 1922 and 1923; "W.H. Holmes" may even have been a pseudonym.
Occult detective Chet Burke, a Sherlock Holmes–styled investigator who lives with his sister in New York City, is approached by his friend Chief Rhyne of the Rhyne Detective Agency alongside a troubled carpenter named Hayden. Hayden has moved his sister and niece into a remote, decaying house at Sunken Mine, in the Hudson Highlands, and reports being tormented at night by "weaving shadows" — ectoplasmic forms that paralyze him with dread, resolve into two terrible faces, and are followed by blood dripping from empty air above his bed. Burke travels with Hayden to investigate, but events at the isolated house spiral toward tragedy faster than he can piece together their cause. In the aftermath, Burke and the local sheriff discover two centuries-old skeletons sealed inside a hidden, plaster-lined chamber in the attic — the remains of two women, apparently killed by a family member generations earlier. Unlike more triumphant occult-detective tales, Burke fails to fully explain the haunting or prevent further deaths, leaving the story's central mysteries — why the shadows appeared now, and what became of the Hayden women — deliberately unresolved. 
Algernon Blackwood published "A Psychical Invasion" as the opening story in his 1908 collection John Silence, Physician Extraordinary. It introduces Dr. John Silence, an occult physician who takes on cases of genuine psychical affliction rather than ordinary mental illness.
A Swedish woman brings Dr. Silence a strange case: her friend Pender, a humorist writer, has lost his sense of humor entirely after conducting a self-experiment with hashish to test its effects on his imagination. Since the experiment, Pender has felt himself watched and oppressed in his own home, unable to write anything but morbid, joyless prose, and increasingly convinced that some hostile presence is displacing his own thoughts. Investigating with the aid of his psychically sensitive cat, Smoke, and dog, Flame, Dr. Silence determines that the drug lowered Pender's defenses and left him open to a malevolent entity — the lingering psychic residue of a woman who once lived on the site, a magician of great cruelty who was executed centuries earlier for her crimes. Silence moves into the house himself to confront the entity directly, enduring a harrowing night in which the hostile force tries to overwhelm and possess him in turn. Through sheer force of will and psychic discipline, he breaks the entity's hold, freeing Pender from the invasion and restoring his health, spirit, and creative humor. 
Another adventure involving the psychic detective Thomas Carnacki
The Gateway of the Monster is the first story in the series featuring Thomas Carnacki, a detective who investigates cases of an occult or supernatural nature. It was first published in January 1910 in The Idler magazine. The narrative centers on a haunted room in the Anderson family home, referred to as the Grey Room, which has claimed the lives of several individuals over the past 150 years, including an ancestor, his wife, and child. The room is marked by the door slamming repeatedly at night and bedclothes being torn from the bed and thrown into a corner. Carnacki investigates the case after receiving a letter from Mr. Anderson, who seeks help with the mysterious occurrences. 
Someone Is Dead is a short story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes. The narrative centers on the supernatural mystery surrounding the death of a woman. This is the first appearance of occult detective Francis St. Clare and her assistant Frederica Masters.
Rouse Him Not by Manly Wade Wellman features the occult detective John Thunstone where he battles old magic, folklore, and unleashed malevolence. The story was adapted into an episode titled “Rouse Him Not” for the anthology TV series Monsters (1988), where the plot revolves around a woman’s new home being haunted after its hidden supernatural guardian is awakened by accident, and Thunstone arrives to deal with the consequences. 
Story authored by Basil Copper about the occult detective Solar Pons. In the story, Solar Pons investigates a bizarre case involving a terrifying, seemingly supernatural crawling entity that has been reported in a remote, decaying setting. At first, the mystery appears to involve an unknown creature, —something inhuman that defies normal explanation and inspires intense fear in those who encounter it.
A story about Thomas Carnacki, occult detective. In The Horse of the Invisible William Hope Hodgson delves into the realms of supernatural horror. It the 4th chronologically published Carnacki story, and first appeared The Idler (April, 1910).
Upon arriving at Carnacki’s home after the usual dinner invitation, the narrator notices that Carnacki shows signs of bruising and injury. Obviously, his latest case has provided some danger! While waiting for the others to arrive, Carnacki hands over a series of photographs which the narrator discovers to be of a young, beautiful woman in various darkened rooms. But, in one, there is a picture of her looking upward at a large horse’s hoof that is bearing down on her. Carnacki tells his friends that he has just returned from a trip up North to East Lancashire. A Captain Hisgins has asked him to investigate a family curse. Carnacki claims to have had knowledge of this curse but considered it to be little more than a folk tale. 
"The Phantom Isle"
The Blue Magazine published "The Phantom Isle" in its August 1920 issue. It is the fourth installment in Ella M. Scrymsour's six-part Shiela Crerar series. While holidaying near Rosslyn Chapel, Shiela Crerar receives an urgent summons from a Mrs. Murdoch of the Isle of Skye. Mrs. Murdoch's daughter, Elspeth, broke off her engagement after a sailing trip left her strangely changed, and she now intends to marry a man who does not exist — Malcolm MacLaurie, a Jacobite laird murdered nearly two centuries earlier by a Murdoch ancestor who betrayed him to the English. Investigating the ruined island of Tath-Gart, Shiela discovers she alone can see a spectral castle, fully staffed and decorated for a wedding, where MacLaurie's vengeful ghost is courting Elspeth as revenge on her bloodline. On the wedding day, as Elspeth stands entranced before an altar of phantoms, Shiela intervenes and drives off the apparitions through sheer force of will, breaking the curse and restoring Elspeth's memory — and her engagement to her real fiancé. "The Wraith of Fergus McGinty" The Blue Magazine published "The Wraith of Fergus McGinty" in its October 1920 issue. It is the sixth and final installment in the Shiela Crerar series. Five years into her career as a psychic investigator, Shiela Crerar — now engaged to her longtime admirer, Stavordale Hartland — takes on one last case while staying with the Chalmers family. A harmless but unsettling ghost, an old man with white hair and a beard, has been haunting their home, unnerving the household. Shiela follows the spirit to a hidden door, a secret staircase, and a concealed room, where she uncovers a chest containing old clothing, a sword, and a fortune in gold — including the long-lost Plate of Strathbolla. The ghost proves to be Fergus McGinty, a loyal valet who hid his employer's fortune generations earlier to protect it from creditors and had lingered ever since to see it returned to the family. With the mystery solved and the gold restored to Lord Strathbolla, Shiela marries Stavordale and retires from psychic detective work. 
"The Room of Fear"
The Blue Magazine published "The Room of Fear," a supernatural mystery short story by Ella M. Scrymsour, in its July 1920 issue. It is the third installment in Scrymsour's six-part Shiela Crerar series. Shiela Crerar travels to Taynuilt, Argyll, Scotland, to investigate a deadly mystery at McKenzie Castle. Over three months, three people have died of sudden heart attacks after sleeping in the castle's Tower Room. The chamber seems pleasant by day, but a lethal atmosphere overtakes it at night. Shiela insists on sleeping there herself and, staying awake into the early morning, confronts phantom shrieks and groans of agony. She ultimately traces the phenomenon to a physical and psychological haunting rooted in the room's newly laid floorboards. "The Death Vapour" The Blue Magazine published "The Death Vapour" in its June 1920 issue. It is the second installment in the Shiela Crerar series. Synopsis: Someone calls on Shiela Crerar to investigate a terrifying entity manifesting as a localized, suffocating mist. Unlike the passive ghosts common in Edwardian ghost stories, Scrymsour renders the vapour as an aggressive, malicious, and quasi-sentient force of doom. The mist creeps into enclosed spaces, overwhelming its victims with dread and physical asphyxiation. Shiela relies on her sharp intellect and inherited psychic sight to withstand the entity, trace it to its origin point, and banish the corrupted spiritual remnants feeding the phantom fog. Ella M. Scrymsour, full name Ella Mary Scrymsour-Nichol (1888–1962), was an early 20th-century British writer and actress. Little is documented about her life, but she wrote across crime, horror, romance, and science fiction, including the 1922 science fiction novel The Perfect World. The Blue Magazine published Scrymsour's six-part occult detective series between May and October 1920. The series follows Shiela Crerar, a young, penniless Scottish woman who inherits her family's psychic gift and takes out newspaper advertisements to solve uncanny mysteries. As a rare female psychic investigator in the pulp fiction of her era, Crerar holds her own against ghosts, werewolves, and other supernatural threats through intellect and nerve rather than passive endurance. 
"The Eyes of Doom"
The Blue Magazine published "The Eyes of Doom" in its May 1920 issue. It is the first installment in Ella M. Scrymsour's six-part Shiela Crerar series and establishes Shiela's origin. After her guardian uncle's sudden death leaves her penniless, Shiela Crerar leases out the family estate and moves to London, where loneliness sharpens her latent psychic sight. A mysterious stranger urges her to put her gift to use, and she advertises her services as a psychic investigator. Her first client, Lady Kildrummie, hires her to solve the "Kildrummie Weird" — a haunting of disembodied, malevolent eyes that appears every twenty-three years and has already driven two family members to suicide, and now torments Lady Kildrummie's surviving son, Duncan. Night after night, the spectral eyes drag Shiela to a locked tower and leave her temporarily blinded, until she finally manages to perceive what they are trying to communicate: a centuries-old atrocity in which twenty-three people were blinded, murdered, and buried without a Christian rite. Shiela leads the household in exhuming and properly reburying the remains, laying the haunting to rest and restoring Duncan's health. On her way home, Lady Kildrummie's nephew, Stavordale Hartland, proposes marriage; Shiela gently declines, unwilling to give up her newfound calling, though he resolves to wait for her. "The Werewolf of Rannoch" The Blue Magazine published "The Werewolf of Rannoch" in its September 1920 issue. It is the fifth installment in the Shiela Crerar series. A Highland minister summons Shiela to the village of Dhuvhair, where a savage creature has been killing livestock and people alike, its throat-torn victims fueling rumors of a werewolf. Boarding with Dr. Chisholm, his sister Mary, and Mary's suitor, a Danish physician named Olaf Sylmak, Shiela investigates repeated sightings of a shaggy, red-eyed beast. Distrustful of the taciturn Sylmak, she becomes convinced he is the werewolf, tracking the creature to a hidden cave lair and confronting it directly in her bedroom, where it briefly disguises itself as a wounded kitten before she wounds it with a pistol shot — only to find Sylmak nursing a grazed hand moments later. Returning to spy on the cave, Shiela witnesses a hooded sorcerer performing a dark ritual, including a child sacrifice and a curse worked against her and Mary through clay effigies. She shoots the sorcerer, banishing both him and the werewolf — and returns home to learn that Dr. Chisholm has been found shot dead, his face frozen in a fanged snarl. Sylmak reveals he had long suspected his partner was the killer, leaving Shiela to reckon with having wrongly suspected an innocent man.  Adventure story by Robert E. Howard features his occult detective Steve Harrison.
The main names in Robert E. Howard's "Names in the Black Book" are the protagonist Steve Harrison, the woman who brings him the book Joan La Tour, and the villainous crime lord Erlik Khan, who is targeting them from beyond the grave. Other names on the list of victims include Li-chin, Ibrahim ibn Achmet, and Jacob Kossova, all of whom were previously associated with Erlik Khan.  Two stories from the masters of Weird Tales.
"Yare" is a classic Appalachian horror and weird-fiction short story by Manly Wade Wellman. Set in the deep, isolated wilderness of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, the story follows individuals encountering a menacing, primal force. Wellman's regional gothic horror features his character John the Balladeer (often called Silver John) and the occult investigator John Thunstone. "Yare" leans into the raw, wilderness-based horror subset of his catalogue, dealing with unexplained, terrifying creatures that lurk far off the beaten path. "Kevin Malone" is a surreal short story by Gene Wolfe. It follows a French detective sent to Germany to investigate a mysterious miscreant who infiltrates people’s dreams. The narrative blends mystery with Christian allegory and a classic Wolfe "tales-within-tales" structure. 
Beware, generous strangers.
The Woman on the Stairs, featuring Miles Pennoyer, is a short story by Margery Lawrence, included in her collection The Casebook of Miles Pennoyer. Miles Pennoyer is a spiritualist detective who operates from #7 Queer Street in Blackfriars, using psychic abilities to solve supernatural mysteries. He is assisted by his chronicler Jerome Latimer and lives with a Bavarian housekeeper named Friedl and a wolfhound named Hans. Host - M.P. Pellicer www.MPPellicer.com SUPPORT VIA DONATION Buy Me A Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Marlene11 LISTEN TO ALL MY PODCASTS www.EeriePodcast.com Narration by a human, never AI 
Two Father O'Connor, occult detective stories.
A Graven Image explores the power of fetishes, especially those made to look like living humans. "The Apples of Sodom" is a short story by David G. Rowlands, featuring his recurring protagonist, Father O'Connor. The story was originally published under the title "The Lady Alys". The narrative title references the mythical fruit associated with the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, which historical accounts and folklore describe as turning to smoke and ashes when touched or bitten. But only a graveyard cursed by someone buried there could bear such fruit. Host - M.P. Pellicer www.MPPellicer.com SUPPORT VIA DONATION Buy Me A Coffee - https://bit.ly/3SZFf6c Listen to all the podcasts at www.EeriePodcast.com Narration always by a human, no A.I.  Two classic Victorian stories of occult detectives. | Narrator and Producer Marlene Pardo Pellicer
Victorian story introducing the occult detective Harry Escott.
Published in 1855 in Harper's Monthly, "The Pot of Tulips" is a classic supernatural short story by Irish-American writer Fitz-James O'Brien. It features Harry Escott, a nervous, bohemian narrator who also appears in "What Was It?"--and blends elements of fantasy, a lost fortune, and a ghostly message concerning a painted pot of tulips. Host - M.P. Pellicer www.MPPellicer.com SUPPORT VIA DONATION Buy Me A Coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Marlene11 LISTEN TO ALL MY PODCASTS www.EeriePodcast.com Narration by a human, never AI  A troubled psychiatrist, an aging writer and a murder. Throw in a ghost, stirred, not shaken, and you have a murder mystery in a college town. | Author - Karl Edward Wagner | Narrator and Producer Marlene Pardo Pellicer
 An adventure story of the occult detective Dr. Jules de Grandin and his friend Dr. Trowbridge. | Author: Seabury Quinn | Narrator and Producer Marlene Pardo Pellicer
Some family curses are more deadly than others, especially if the curse is vampirism.
Authored by Claude and Alice Askew, the story centers on Aylmer Vance, Ghost Seer, an investigator of the supernatural. Mr. Dexter, the narrator, meets Vance during a fishing holiday and Vance tells him three ghost stories on successive nights, each story involving Vance more closely in the action. The fourth story brings Dexter himself into the action, and reveals him to have unsuspected clairvoyant powers. 
Unexplained deaths prompt the paranormal detective, Dr. Jules de Grandin to find out the real, supernatural reason for their demise.
"The Curse of Everard Maundy" is a short story by Seabury Quinn that was originally published in Weird Tales in July 1927. The story features the occult investigator Jules de Grandin, who becomes involved in a series of suicides and attempted suicides in the city. De Grandin investigates the case and discovers that the victims had all attended the evangelical revival meetings of Reverend Everard Maundy. Maundy, a former skeptic, had insulted an elderly black medium during a séeance, which led to a curse being placed upon him. He believes the curse is responsible for the deaths, as his wife committed suicide the very next night after the incident. De Grandin ultimately determines that the curse manifested as an elemental spirit, one of the evil children of Lilith, which attached itself to Maundy after the séance. To defeat the spirit, de Grandin uses a pellet blessed by a priest, which causes the spirit to manifest as a grotesque, withered entity before being trapped within a corpse that de Grandin destroys by decapitation and staking. |
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