There is a long history of psychic detectives in horror and crime fiction, and in other genres as well. One of the earliest forms of the genre was the character Flaxman Low, created in 1897 by mother and son Kate and Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard. The Prichards wrote their stories at the behest of the press baron Cyril Pearson for his monthly "Pearson's Magazine", though they were disconcerted to find the tales promoted by Pearson as "real". The collected work was published as "The Experiences of Flaxman Low" in 1899.