[Opinion] Best Occult Private-Eye Series

[Xenophon]

This COULD go in books, but I reckon the Book Discussion area is for serious occult books, not entertainment. If I am wrong, I do apologize. It seems a judgment call. And I had a book request for an occult novel turned down on grounds of frivolity a couple years back.

Anyway, any reccomendations? I glanced at the Ethan Drake series and was apalled. The sort of thing a mentally-challenged kid brother would turn out between bouts with community college. John Constantine, meet thy uninformed imitator. The necrophilia subtext, is a good bit off-weirding. Especially when it turns interspecies. There has gots to be aught better out there, right?

 

[Rowena]

My guilty pleasure is Kim Harrison's 'Hollows' series.
It's a cheesy urban fantasy buddy-cop thing, with witches, faeries, elves, vampires werewolves & demons - at least in the beginning.

I also liked the audio books of James Lovegrove's 'Cthulhu Casebooks' series - which are where Sherlock Holmes investigations meets Cthuloid horrors. I'm told they are close adaptations of the novels, so the books are probably pretty good as well.

 

[Xenophon]

My guilty pleasure is Kim Harrison's 'Hollows' series.
It's a cheesy urban fantasy buddy-cop thing, with witches, faeries, elves, vampires werewolves & demons - at least in the beginning.

I also liked the audio books of James Lovegrove's 'Cthulhu Casebooks' series - which are where Sherlock Holmes investigations meets Cthuloid horrors. I'm told they are close adaptations of the novels, so the books are probably pretty good as well.

The Holmes one sounds like a great way to take the whole Lovecraftian thing. Have protagonists who are less at the mercy of the universe

 

[silencewaits]

This COULD go in books, but I reckon the Book Discussion area is for serious occult books, not entertainment. If I am wrong, I do apologize. It seems a judgment call. And I had a book request for an occult novel turned down on grounds of frivolity a couple years back.

Anyway, any reccomendations? I glanced at the Ethan Drake series and was apalled. The sort of thing a mentally-challenged kid brother would turn out between bouts with community college. John Constantine, meet thy uninformed imitator. The necrophilia subtext, is a good bit off-weirding. Especially when it turns interspecies. There has gots to be aught better out there, right?

The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker was something I enjoyed reading. It's a continuation of the world established in The Hellbound Heart, which spawned the Hellraiser movie franchise.