Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard (1876-1922) was a writer, explorer, adventurer, cricketer and marksman who made a significant contribution to sniping techniques in the British Army during the First World War.Hesketh-Prichard and his mother wrote together under the pseudonyms H. Heron and E. Heron. Together they created a series of stories around the character Flaxman Low, the first psychic detective of fiction.In 'The Story of the Spanairds', Flaxman Low solves the case of ...

Flaxman Low is a fictional character created by British authors Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard and his mother Kate O'Brien Ryall Prichard, published under the pseudonyms "H. Heron" and "E. Heron". Low is credited with being the first psychic detective of fiction, and appears in a series of short stories. Flaxman Low is a pseudonym for "one of the leading scientists of the" Victorian era, whose real name is not disclosed in the stories. He was an accomplished athlete in his youth and has turned h...

This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: - Sheridan Le Fanu - H. and E. Heron - Charlotte Riddell - Flora Annie Steel - Amelia B. Edwards - Margaret Oliphant - Edward Bellamy - Arnold Bennett - S. Baring-Gould - Daniil Kharms - E.F. Benson - John Buchan - Ella D'Arcy - Jacques Futrelle - Fra...

Welcome to the3 Books To Knowseries, our idea is to help readers learn about fascinating topics through three essential and relevant books. These carefully selected works can be fiction, non-fiction, historical documents or even biographies. We will always select for you three great works to instigate your mind, this time the topic is:Occult Detective Fiction - In a Glass Darkly by J. Sheridan Le Fanu - Carnacki, the Ghost Finder by William Hope Hodgson - Flaxman Low, Occult Psychologist, ...

Unlike the traditional detective, the occult detective is employed in cases involving ghosts, curses, and other supernatural elements. Some occult detectives are portrayed as being themselves psychic or in possession of other paranormal powers. The critic August Nemo selected seven mystery stories with the great experts in supernatural phenomena: - The Gateway of the Monster by William Hope Hodgson - The House Among the Laurels by William Hope Hodgson - The Story of Saddler's Croft by E. a...

The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult Detectives, Female Detectives, Curious Crimes and a whole host more, but also bring a ...

In these more welcome days of equality between the sexes we usually forget that the often cited ‘Gentler Sex’ can have dark and disturbing trains of thought that are more than the equal of their male brethren. Indeed, they can manipulate words in a matter of lines from comforting and loving to dark, foreboding and utterly terrifying. These femme fatales really do create stories that leech vile characters into dark and disturbing quite horrific narratives.

Muscle coordination, also known as motor coordination is the combination of body movements created for a specific action, such as walking, jumping, holding a pencil and buttoning a shirt. It can include smoothly, combining several body movements involving large and small muscle groups, that are well timed with a specific goal, such as swimming, tennis or riding a bike. This book is designed to help identify muscle coordination problems, then suggest appropriate remediation to correct the i...

Speech Is Sound Advice is an outstanding tool to help parents, teachers and other concerned professionals informally evaluate a child's speech development. The survey section will assist you in evaluating your child's current speech skills, the underlying auditory perception abilities and word attack skills. There are guidelines for normal development and simple suggestions for helping your child with a problem sound. Referrals are very important in speech and are indicated as appropriate....

Stuck and frustrated at school? Students need High School Made Easy:Study Smarter, Not Harder! by Helen H Heron. Learn to easily, efficiently and rapidly master and remember your assignments for excellent grades. This ebook provides skills in listening, reading, note taking, research, essay writing, and test taking for all learning styles.

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be publishe...

How do twenty-first century theatre practitioners negotiate the dynamics of tradition and innovation across the works of Samuel Beckett? Beckett's own tendencies toward fluidity of genre, iteration/repetition, and collaboration – modes that also define the 'experimental' – allow for greater openness than is often assumed. Reading recent performances for creative uses of embodiment, environment, and technology reveals the increasingly interdisciplinary, international, and intermedial charac...