Real Ghost Stories

Real Ghost Stories – The Supernatural Experiences of Mr. Flaxman Low.
Flaxman Low is credited with being the first occult detective of fiction. These twelve stories of his encounters with the abnormal, the occult, and the supernatural, were first published in Pearson’s Magazine in 1898 and 1899.

First Series.
No. 1.— The Story of the Spaniards, Hammersmith
No. 2.— The Story Of Medhans Lea
No. 3.— The Story Of The Moor Road
No. 4.— The Story of Baelbrow
No. 5.— The Story of the Grey House
No. 6.— The Story of Yand Manor House

Second Series.
No. 1.— The Story Of Sevens Hall.
No. 2.— The Story of Saddler’s Croft
No. 3.— The Story of No. 1, Karma Crescent
No. 4.— The Story of Konnor Old House
No. 5.— The Story of Crowsedge
No. 6.— The Story of Mr. Flaxman Low.

Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard (1876–1922) wrote his first story in 1896 when he was nineteen. His mother, Kate O’Brien Ryall Prichard (1852–1935), edited it and it was sold to the Pall Mall Magazine for one guinea. After the success of his story, he abandoned the practice of law for which he had studied and traveled that summer. Upon returning to England he began writing with his mother under the pseudonyms H. Heron and E. Heron.

Real Ghost Stories contains 83 illustrations.