Unlike the traditional detective the occult detective is employed in cases involving ghosts, curses, and other supernatural elements.

Dennis Wheatley's occult detective is Neils Orsen.

D'Amour is an occult detective, a private investigator who specializes in cases involving the occult.

Several of his short story collections concern an occult detective named Lucius Leffing in the vein of Carnacki and John Silence.

Thomas Carnacki, the occult detective from Carnacki the Ghost-Finder by William Hope Hodgson.

An occult detective does everything that Sheriff Whitaker does, including hunting for clues, interviewing suspects, making deductions and chasing villains.

Jules de Grandin is a fictional occult detective created by Seabury Quinn for Weird Tales.

The story features the occult detective John Constantine, who at that time caught terminal lung cancer, and subsequently conning the Lords of Hell to cure it.

This is the very first attempted professional appearance of Diana Tregarde, my occult detective.

I've always enjoyed occult detectives, but there is a major problem with them-what are they supposed to do for a living?