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Something Fierce Split 10". Bandcamp Album of the Day Apr 3, go to album. Silence is a psychic doctor who investigates strange happenings and Carnacki is a distinguished gentleman with an array of technological devices to assist him in solving supernatural crimes.
My personal favourite? While it might seem a bit tame now, his epic battle against the evil Mr. Mocata and his satanic cult had me on the edge of my seat as a kid. Examples of most of the above short stories can be found in newly released Weiser Book of Occult Detectives: 13 Stories of Supernatural Sleuthing.
For those interested in more modern works of the sub-genre, or submitting your own stories for publication, Occult Detective Quarterly publishes four-times a year. And if you want to go way back, Pliny the Younger, magistrate of ancient Rome, wrote an account of a philosopher named Athenodorus who investigates a home haunted by a mysterious spectre in chains in roughly AD.
Take that John Constantine! Repo Kempt has worked as a criminal lawyer in the Canadian Arctic for over ten years. He is the author of a book about seal hunting, a member of the Horror Writers Association, and a guest columnist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He lives on a cricket farm with his wife, Joy and his little dog, Galactus.
In his spare time, he looks for an agent for his latest manuscript. To leave a comment Login with Facebook or create a free account. Calling the Detecives. Running from the Red Squad. One to Ten. Oh Bureaucracy. Wear the Woodwork. Young Lovers. Release Date February, C'mon Levi Occult Detective Club. Up from the Underground Occult Detective Club. Crimes Occult Detective Club. Nightside : John Taylor is a private investigator in the Nightside, where he investigates all manner of supernatural cases.
Secret Histories : Eddie Drood is part of whole family of paranormal investigators and eliminators. He uses Blood Magic to solve supernatural crimes, ones which often turn out to have the machinations of gods behind them. The crimes he investigates take place in an alternate reality where everything from leprechauns to cat-people really exists.
Dan Shamble, Zombie P. Then he got shot in the head, rose from the grave, and is now just as much an "unnatural" as his clients. The Pardoner's Tale features Nick Pardoner who is a part-time detective and a part-time exorcist and a werewolf. So he's an occult Occult Detective. Elizabeth from the Mr. Darcy Mysteries , though it's downplayed after the second book. John C. Wright 's story " Pale Realms of Shade ", which involves Matthew Flint and Sylvester Steel who run the agency "Flint and Steel Investigations" specializing in the supernatural, with the help of a plethora of artifacts.
Though the story itself is less about the agency and more about Matthew's experiences in the afterlife. In Vampirocracy , Leon and Ling head a PI firm specialized in supernatural cases, and Leon puts his skill as a Vampire Hunter to work for the police investigating supernatural crimes. Daniel Faust insists he's "vengeance for hire", being a former mob hitman, but he's not as dissimilar from Harry Dresden as he would have you believe.
I'm not some kind of And these jobs. Do they require investigation? Perhaps looking for clues and assembling those clues in the correct order? You're a magic detective. Live Action TV. He's ostensibly up to saving the world, but it's mostly a case-by-case basis to get there.
The show largely consists of their special FBI unit that is, just the two of them investigating bizarre, inexplicable things. Very frequently what they run into does involve the supernatural, or mutants, or aliens, or especially the government conspiracies. Lost Girl has succubus Bo reluctantly becoming an Occult Detective, who specializes in cases involving the fae.
Sapphire and Steel , if you stretch the definition to include nonhuman entities investigating other nonhuman entities. Randall and Hopkirk Deceased more the Noughties remake than the original series; there the cases were more usually normal crimes It's the entire premise of the show, although it occasionally riffs on Angel being better at battling evil than actual detective work. At one point he's reduced to hiring another private detective with a Friend on the Force , his own police insider having left the show.
Averted in Pushing Daisies , where the hero is an investigator with a superhuman power, but all the crimes he investigates are non-occult, though still incredibly weird. Fringe : Special Agent Olivia Dunham, along with Mad Scientist Walter Bishop and his son Peter, doesn't really investigate "occult" stuff, but rather incredibly strange and bizarre incidents.
Said death involved an evil entity that can possess certain living people, an alternate universe that looks like a art-deco hotel lobby, and a one-armed man whose arm is now a dwarf. In Supernatural brothers Sam and Dean, and other Hunters are dedicated to hunting down supernatural menaces.
The Chicago Police Department had an entire division devoted to supernatural investigations. It was designated Special Unit 2. The show is technically science fiction, but it's soft enough to be considered Urban Fantasy , particularly considering how much Shoutaro is concerned with being hardboiled. Homicide Detective Nick Burkhardt of the Portland Police Bureau learns he is descended from a line of "guardians" known as "Grimms", charged with keeping the balance between humanity and the mythological creatures of the world, called Wesen.
It's worth noting that Nick is actually fairly unique in this regard. It's all but stated that most Grimm tend to act as the occult hunters rather than detectives, who'd gladly kill any Wesen, regardless of whether they've done anything to warrant it, whereas Nick only goes after Wesen who commit crimes and leaving the peaceful ones like Monroe and Rosalee alone.
Understandably, this throws a lot of Wesen for a loop when they meet him. It featured Leslie Nielsen of all people as a seemingly happy go lucky playboy who solved Occult-related mysteries in his spare time. Kolchak: The Night Stalker and the later remake featured Carl Kolchak, who kept stumbling over supernatural doings.
In the original series, he usually ended up working alone, and there were never any witnesses when he finally defeated the Monster of the Week.
A variant is part of the setup for The Dead Files. Co-host Steve Di Schavi is a retired detective who conducts a real-world investigation of the circumstances behind a haunting, while psychic medium Amy Allen does a reading of the haunted location. The two then combine their work before the client s , with Steve's research often giving grounding to Amy's impressions.
One skit on Monty Python's Flying Circus has the police taking up magic to fight crime. They use magic wands to turn crooks into toads, vanish illegally parked cars, and teleport old ladies across the street, as well as attempting to use a rather rude Ouija Board to investigate crimes.
Things go wrong when the press spots them sacrificing a criminal though. The Strange Calls is a humorous and fairly mundane example. The series focuses on a night-shift police officer in a small town. Though he has no special powers, every case involves some kind of supernatural element, from a ghost vandal to fried chicken that turns people into chickens. Wormwood: A Serialized Mystery follows Doctor Xander Crowe, a former psychologist who was "forced down the dark pathways of the occult" by an unnamed tragedy, as he investigates hallucinations of a drowned woman that lead him to the Town with a Dark Secret Wormwood, where all manner of underworld hellishness proceeds to break loose.
Lord Zimbabwe, the protagonist of Ectoplasm is a "walker in the ether", or occult investigator. June Harper, the co-star of BellinghamTerror quickly shakes off her disbelief to become an occult detective. Tabletop Games. Although some campaigns feature PCs stumbling across the occult, others have them actively investigate it from the word go. Delta Green offers an entire organization of them. The Call of Cthulhu card game also has The Agency, a faction made up of police and government investigators of strange happenings.
They're the ones most likely to be trying to punch out Cthulhu. Sometimes, they succeed. In Munchkin Cthulhu , there is the investigator-class. Given the setting, they also investigate the Occult, more precisely the horrors of Lovecraft's works.
Bureau 13 from Bureau Stalking the Night Fantastic , which also spawned a series of novels and a video game. Bureau 13 the 13th Bureau of the Justice Department was founded in by Abraham Lincoln to deal with supernatural and paranormal threats to the Union and suppress any public knowledge of them.
The original agents were a motley crew of military personnel, Pinkerton detectives , civilian consultants, freed slaves, paroled criminals, and even Confederate prisoners of war. The job of Bureau 13 is as it has always been: Investigate the strange or unusual, analyze the evidence to see if there is a supernatural or paranormal cause, and assess whether the cause is hostile or dangerous. The other organizations are more interested in hunting and destroying the supernaturals than uncovering facts about them.
Pathfinder has two classes that can function as this: The Investigator note Think "Fantasy Sherlock Holmes " and you're on the right track , and the Occultist, a psychic mage who uses items to channel his power. The latter is a much more clear-cut example, as the description of the class even mentions using their powers to research things. He's also a subversion of Armor and Magic Don't Mix thanks to his suit of tailored plate mail.
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