The Supernatural Thriller

[desert-raven]

I like Supernatural Fiction ala Harry Dresdon, Black Oak, and the Women of Otherworlds, etc.

I like Thrillers and Suspense ala Cussler, Cornwell, Clancey, etc.

What I'd like to know, are there books available that combine the two? Something without delving into actual Horror.

The Detective researching a haunted house or a cult.
A bunch of normal people ending up battling ghosts.

I really don't know how to describe it, except; imagine a homespun adventure in Call of Cthulhu, then take that actual play, polish it up and publish it...I want that book.

Does anyone have any recommendations? Old/New, as long as I can find them, let me know....

D-R

[Iozz-Sothoth]

They may be slanted a bit too much towards horror for your tastes, but John Connelly's Charlie Parker series dealing with a private eye who gets drawn into peculiar cases with disturbing undertones (beginning with Every Dead Thing , but really hitting their stride with the second novel, Dark Hollow) might be worth looking into. There's not a lot that's obviously supernatural going on in the first three novels (and what is can be explained away by Parker's increasingly frayed nerves), but by the fourth novel the groundwork has been laid for some disturbing intrusions from the neglected interstices of the world.

They are rather grim, though.

[ShannonA]

Robert Morgan's Terry London books are labeled "supernatural mystery". The marketing text reads:

"He's a private investigator with an eerie knack for solving eerie crimes. He's got a gun named Betty, a knife named Veronica, and the strange contacts--spiritual and otherwise. When it comes to things that go bump in the night, call Teddy London, P.I."

There were six books in the series, starting with _The Things that are Not There_. They're all under the penname Robert Morgan. They're all out-of-print and hard to find. There's a recent collection called "The Occult Detectives of C.J. Henderson" (which is Morgan's real name), but I have no idea what it contains.

This is definitely hard-boiled detective + Lovecraftian horror.

[azidhak]

Charles Stross has written several short-stories and a couple of novels which combines Spy-thrillers with the Cthulhu Mythos. The stories "A Colder War (http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm)" and "Missile Gap (http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/spring2007/fiction-missile-gap-by-charles-stross/)" are available online for free. His novels "Atrocity Archives" and "The Jennifer Morgue" are set in the same universe with the same protagonist but where the first is more Len Deightonish the latter is more of a Fleming pastiche with Deep Ones... Both are warmly recommended.

[ShannonA]

Charles Stross has written several short-stories and a couple of novels which combines Spy-thrillers with the Cthulhu Mythos. The stories "A Colder War (http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm)" and "Missile Gap (http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/spring2007/fiction-missile-gap-by-charles-stross/)" are available online for free. His novels "Atrocity Archives" and "The Jennifer Morgue" are set in the same universe with the same protagonist but where the first is more Len Deightonish the latter is more of a Fleming pastiche with Deep Ones... Both are warmly recommended.

Yup, very good books.

Here are the novels:
http://index.xenagia.net/display-series.phtml?seriesid=29