Most Popular Occult Detective Books of the 2020s

Emily Voss #1

Past Mistakes

Nick Lavitz

Demon · Occult Detective · Paranormal Fantasy · Urban Fantasy · Young Adult

August 4, 2026

Rivers of London #9

Amongst Our Weapons

Ben Aaronovitch

Fantasy · Occult Detective · Urban Fantasy · Mystery

April 22, 2022

British Library Tales of the Weird #29

The Ghost Slayers

Mike Ashley

Horror · Ghosts · Occult Detective · Psychological Horror · Weird Fiction

March 24, 2022

Occult Detective Magazine #7

Occult Detective Magazine #7

John Linwood Grant, Dave Brzeski

Horror · Occult Detective · Weird Fiction · Short Stories · Mystery

May 30, 2020

Dresden Files #18

Twelve Months

Jim Butcher

Fantasy · Occult Detective · Urban Fantasy · Mystery

January 20, 2026

Rivers of London #5

What Abigail Did That Summer

Ben Aaronovitch

Fantasy · Occult Detective · Urban Fantasy · Mystery

March 18, 2021

The Great Detective Universe #1

Sherlock Holmes and the Occult Detectives Volume I

John Linwood Grant

Horror · Crime Fiction · Ghosts · Occult Detective · Weird Fiction

May 7, 2020

Rivers of London

Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection

Ben Aaronovitch

Fantasy · Occult Detective · Urban Fantasy · Short Stories · Mystery

July 2020

Rivers of London #8

False Value

Ben Aaronovitch

Fantasy · Occult Detective · Urban Fantasy · Mystery

February 18, 2020

Rivers of London #10

Stone and Sky

Ben Aaronovitch

Fantasy · Occult Detective · Urban Fantasy · Mystery

July 8, 2025

Cities of the Drift #2

The Clockwork Leviathan

Philip A. Suggars

Fantasy · Horror · Crime Fiction · Occult Detective · Urban Fantasy

April 6, 2027

The Adventures of Amos Jelkie, Ghost Hunter

Sydney Chambers, I A Watson

Horror · Ghosts · Occult Detective · Psychological Horror · Collection

August 18, 2026

Miss Linwood Entertains

John Linwood Grant

Fantasy · Horror · Occult Detective · Paranormal Fantasy · Collection

April 25, 2026

Cities of the Drift #1

The Lighthouse at the End of the World

Philip A. Suggars

Fantasy · Horror · Crime Fiction · Occult Detective · Urban Fantasy

March 31, 2026

Sgt. Janus #4

Sgt. Janus and the House That Loved Death

Jim Beard

Horror · Ghosts · Occult Detective · Mystery

May 12, 2025

Creepin' Clues

Arbogast

Fantasy · Horror · Ghosts · Occult Detective · Anthology

November 25, 2025

Occult Detective Magazine #11

Occult Detective Magazine #11

John Linwood Grant

Horror · Occult Detective · Weird Fiction · Short Stories · Mystery

2025

Occult Detective Magazine Mythos Specials #2

Occult Detective Magazine Mythos Special #2

John Linwood Grant

Horror · Cthulhu · Occult Detective · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

June 22, 2024

Small Gods of Calamity

Sam Kyung Yoo

Fantasy · Horror · Ghosts · Occult Detective · Urban Fantasy

March 4, 2024

Dark Tide Horror Novellas #12

Hunted Highways

Angela Yuriko Smith, Naching T. Kassa, Rowland Bercy Jr.

Fantasy · Horror · 19th century · Devil · Occult Detective

January 21, 2024

An Unkindness of Shadows

John Linwood Grant

Fantasy · Horror · Occult Detective · Paranormal Fantasy · Psychological Horror

September 20, 2024

Ain't No Witch

John Linwood Grant

Fantasy · Horror · Occult Detective · Paranormal Fantasy · Mystery

May 2, 2024

The Cthulhu Casebooks #4

Sherlock Holmes and the Highgate Horrors

James Lovegrove

Fantasy · Horror · Cthulhu · Occult Detective · Weird Fiction

September 10, 2024

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes: The Monster of the Mere

Philip Purser-Hallard

Horror · 19th century · Crime Fiction · Occult Detective · Historical Fiction

June 20, 2023

Lovecraftian Tales of Occult Detection #1

Eldritch Investigations

Tim Mendees

Horror · Cthulhu · Occult Detective · Psychological Horror · Utopia

July 31, 2023

Occult Detective Magazine Mythos Specials #1

Occult Detective Magazine Mythos Special #1

John Linwood Grant

Horror · Cthulhu · Occult Detective · Weird Fiction · Short Stories

August 26, 2023

Occult Detective Magazine #10

Occult Detective Magazine #10

John Linwood Grant

Horror · Occult Detective · Weird Fiction · Short Stories · Mystery

September 2023

Dark Tide Horror Novellas #10

The Dead Shall Rise

Armand Rosamilia, Erin Louis, Jay Wilburn

Horror · 19th century · Occult Detective · Splatterpunk · Zombies

August 22, 2023

Dark Tide Horror Novellas #11

Sherlock Holmes and The Arcana of Madness

John Linwood Grant, Angela Yuriko Smith, Naching T. Kassa

Fantasy · Horror · 19th century · Crime Fiction · Occult Detective

October 27, 2023

John Silence: Psychical Investigator

The Complete John Silence Psychic Doctor Plus Max Hensig Bacteriologist and Murderer

Algernon Blackwood

Horror · Ghosts · Occult Detective · Weird Fiction · Anthology

March 10, 2023

Landon Connors: Occult Detective

Bob Freeman

Fantasy · Horror · Occult Detective · Paranormal Fantasy · Collection

July 22, 2022

Occult Detective Magazine #9

Occult Detective Magazine #9

John Linwood Grant

Horror · Occult Detective · Weird Fiction · Short Stories · Mystery

2022

Joe Golem

Joe Golem Occult Detective Omnibus

Mike Mignola

Fantasy · Horror · Dystopia · Occult Detective · Paranormal Fantasy

October 11, 2022

Dark Tide Horror Novellas #1

Wounds to Wishes

Chad Lutzke, John Borden, Robert Ford

Horror · Crime Fiction · Occult Detective · Psychological Thriller · Anthology

August 23, 2022

The Great Detective Universe #5

Sherlock Holmes and the Occult Detectives vol. IV

John Linwood Grant

Horror · Crime Fiction · Ghosts · Occult Detective · Anthology

May 30, 2022

The Great Detective Universe #4

Sherlock Holmes and the Occult Detectives vol. III

John Linwood Grant

Horror · Crime Fiction · Ghosts · Occult Detective · Weird Fiction

May 30, 2022