{
    "id": 418913,
    "slug": "the-ghost-slayers-thrilling-tales-of-occult-detection",
    "nstc": null,
    "title": "The Ghost Slayers",
    "subtitle": "Thrilling Tales of Occult Detection",
    "collection_title": null,
    "collection_part_number": null,
    "annotation": null,
    "description": "<p><span>&lsquo;A soundless baying seemed to come from the open jaws, and in the eyes gleamed a light that was not of this world. It was not the green luminosity of an animal, but a purplish grey reflected from some cold planet beyond the range of our senses.&rsquo;<br /><br />Occult or psychic detective tales have been chilling readers since the 1800s. This beguiling subgenre follows specialists in occult lore &ndash; often with years of arcane training &ndash; investigating supernatural occurrences and pitting their wits against bizarre, terrifying and deadly forces.<br /><br />This new collection assembles nine unnerving cases, including the strange encounters of prominent psychic detectives such as Carnacki, the Ghost Finder and Dr. Silence along with lesser-known, rarely reprinted episodes investigated by the likes of Flaxman Low, Cosmo Thor, Aylmer Vance and Mesmer Milann.</span></p>",
    "imprint": null,
    "language_code": "eng",
    "original_language_code": null,
    "page_count": 288,
    "duration_seconds": null,
    "publication_date_first": "2022-03-17",
    "publication_date_latest": "2022-03-17",
    "cover_url": null,
    "editions": [
        {
            "isbn": "9780712354165",
            "product_form": "BC"
        }
    ],
    "ratings_count": 0,
    "read_count": 0,
    "review_count": 0,
    "favorite_count": 0,
    "reading_status_read_count": 0,
    "reading_status_reading_count": 0,
    "reading_status_want_to_read_count": 0,
    "rating_average": null,
    "ratings_distribution": {
        "1": 0,
        "2": 0,
        "3": 0,
        "4": 0,
        "5": 0
    },
    "created_at": "2025-09-19T13:44:48+00:00",
    "updated_at": "2025-10-29T00:34:34+00:00",
    "publisher": {
        "id": 4236,
        "slug": "british-library",
        "name": "British Library",
        "created_at": "2025-09-19T13:09:16+00:00",
        "updated_at": "2025-09-19T15:08:15+00:00"
    },
    "contributors": [
        {
            "id": 256869,
            "slug": "diverse-auteurs-3",
            "key_names": "Diverse auteurs",
            "names_before_key": null,
            "prefix_to_key": null,
            "contributor_role": "A01",
            "readable_contributor_role": "Author"
        }
    ],
    "genres": [],
    "subjects": [
        {
            "scheme_identifier": "32",
            "scheme_version": null,
            "main_subject": false,
            "subject_code": "300",
            "created_at": "2025-09-19T13:44:48+00:00",
            "updated_at": "2025-09-19T13:44:48+00:00"
        }
    ]
}