Writing in the tradition of John Silence and Carnacki, The Ghostbreakers: New Horrors is 14 new occult detective stories. This is the first in a series of anthologies.

contributors :
Mark Orr
J. R. Cain
Walt Hicks
Loren Rhoads
G. W. Thomas
Alex Severin & Kailleaugh Andersson
Jack MacKenzie
H.Turnip Smith
Jason Brannon
Dayle A. Dermatis
Sarah E. Glenn
K. K.
Gigi Vernon
Rick Kennett  

from the introduction :

WHO YOU GONNA CALL? HEROES have existed since before we had any written language to jot them down. The earliest recorded monster-thumper was Gilgamesh. Dragon-slayers of every sort followed suite for another five millennia. Some were the champions of Righteousness, like King Arthur, sent by God. More modern heroes, like the cookie-cutter good-goodies of Jules Verne, were Men of Science. So what can be new about a hero then? In 1872, a new breed was born. Nobody knew it. Pliny's Athenodorus, Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin and Warren's Nameless Physician were all there as godparents. Nobody just springs into existence, you know. But in that year, a ghost story-writing Irishman named Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu would deliver the baby in his story collection, In a Glass Darkly. That character was none other than Dr. Martin Hesselius. He wasn't a particularly exciting child, just a strange metaphysical doctor who had both a great knowledge of the realm of angels and demons AND Science on his side.

The difference may seem trivial today but in 1872 there weren't any Ghostbreakers. Sure, characters got caught up in horror stories and tried either successfully or unsuccessfully to survive them. But they weren't there because they wanted to be. They weren't there because they could see both sides. And the trend caught on. After vague, framy Hesselius came the great names of the genre: Flaxman Low, John Silence, Carnacki, Jules de Grandin, Scooby Doo, Mulder and Scully? In fact, since 1898, there hasn't been a significant gap (say more than 10 years) in the Ghostbreaker chain. Since 1966 there hasn't been any break, with a new Ghostbreaker each and every year. Their popularity is assured for some time to come. Ghostbreakers appear in books, movies, radio, television, comics and games. But are all these characters really Ghostbreakers in the true Hesselian sense of the word? It can get hard to tell these days with the good guys being as monstrous as the baddies.