Category: Occult Detective

• Stepping Off the Beaten Path: Why My Next Book Launch Is Bypassing the Retail Giants

  If you’ve followed my regular posts here on Threads that Bind, you know I usually dig into a wide variety of things related to the dark and spooky. But today, I want to take you behind a different curtain: the actual business of getting a book into a reader’s hands. For over fifteen years, the…

  cwhawes

  July 13, 2026

  Business, horror books, Occult Detective, writing

• The Long Scream

  Detective Elliott Andrews walks through the heavy rain. He pulls up the collar of his leather jacket, trying to take the edge off the cold. He can’t help thinking that the city looks like something out of Blade Runner. As he passes a dark alley, something feels off. He stops and turns toward it, squinting…

  merchakandrea

  June 2, 2025

  horror of the mind, Occult Detective, Stories

• Fear and the Occult Detective

  Fear is one of our oldest emotions — if not the oldest. And fear of the unknown is one of our greatest fears. I don’t know what I don’t know, and that lack of knowing scares us. It is primal, that fear of the unknown. Playing on our Fears Fear, and playing on our fears,…

  cwhawes

  May 11, 2023

  Occult Detective

  Carnacki, fear, Flaxman Low, Jules de Grandin, Occult Detective Magazine, occult detectives, Seabury Quinn, William Hope Hodgson