Many of the earliest occult stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This second volume of supernatural detectives includes the eight Aylmer Vance stories, about an investigator of strange phenomena (originally published in 1914), and the ten stories of The Methods of Morris Klaw (first published in 1913-1914). Klaw is an eccentric detective who utilizes emotional imprints and follows cycles of crime to solve criminal mysteries.

The United States is in the middle of a crucial presidential campaign when one of the main candidates mysteriously disappears. Only Nayland Smith knows what lies behind the crisis - the sinister genius of Fu Manchu.

General Quinto is dead - of no recognisable natural cause. Just before he died he reported hearing the inexplicable beating of a drum. Sir Denis Nayland Smith finds two foreign gentlemen following him and suspects foul play.

THE YELLOW CLAW

Writer Henry Leroux's receives a late-night visitor, a scantily-clad woman who suddenly dies while Leroux is getting help from the doctor who lives in the flat above. A torn message is found in the dead woman's hand with the hastily scribbled words, "Mr. King." Inspector Dunbar is suspicious of Leroux, whose wife is supposedly visiting a friend in Paris--who hasn't seen her in months. Could this be a lover's tryst gone wrong? And what of Leroux's butler, Soames, who has suddenly disappeared? Famed Parisian detective, Gaston Max, is called in, but even Max...

BAT WING

Occult detective Paul Harley is presented with his toughest case when he is asked to investigate a case of Voodoo magic at an estate in Surrey. He and his partner, Malcolm Knox, are contacted by wealthy land baron, Colonel Menendez, who is convinced that his life is in peril. He is certain that an Obeah threat has followed him from Cuba when a bat wing is found nailed to his door. When Harley and Knox arrive at Cray's Folly they find a household filled with vague menace. Mendendez's cousin, Madame de StAmer, is putting on a brave front, but her companion, Val...

This early work by Robert W. Chambers was originally published in 1904 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Green Spider' is a short story about a strange creature, a professor, and a secret that could transform science. Sax Rohmer was born in Ladywood, Birmingham, England in 1883. In 1903, his first published work, The Mysterious Mummy, appeared in 'Pearson s Weekly'. Rohmer continued to write weird fiction, and his major breakthrough came in 1912, when the first Fu-Manchu novel, 'The Mystery of Dr....

This early work by Robert W. Chambers was originally published in 1919 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'In the Valley of the Sorceress' is a short story of an Egyptian mystery. Sax Rohmer was born in Ladywood, Birmingham, England in 1883. In 1903, his first published work, The Mysterious Mummy, appeared in 'Pearson s Weekly'. Rohmer continued to write weird fiction, and his major breakthrough came in 1912, when the first Fu-Manchu novel, 'The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu', was serialized over a period of eight...