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Carnacki, the Ghost Finder

William Hope Hodgson

Book Overview: 

Thomas Carnacki was a detective of the supernatural, created for a series of short stories by Wiliam Hope Hodgson.

Recommended for fans of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Dean Koontz.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .The bhlood-dhrip!' When the old man called out, they all looked, and in the same instant others felt it upon them. There were frightened cries of:—'The bhlood-dhrip! The bhlood-dhrip!' And then, about a dozen candles went out simultaneously, and the hall was suddenly dark. The dog let out a great, mournful howl, and there was a horrible little silence, with everyone standing rigid. Then the tension broke, and there was a mad rush for the main door. They wrenched it open, and tumbled out into the dark; but something slammed it with a crash after them, and shut the dog in; for Wentworth heard it howling as they raced down the drive. Yet no one had the pluck to go back to let it out, which does not surprise me.

"Wentworth sent for me the following day. He had heard of me in connection with that Steeple Monster Case. I arrived by the night mail, and put up with Wentworth at the inn. The next day we went up to the old Manor, which certainly lies in . . . Read More

Community Reviews

Not as good as his House on the Borderlands, but enjoyable and worthwhile nonetheless. These stories improve in quality as the book progresses, beginning with the hackneyed gothic claptrap of "The Thing Invisible" and ending with stories of true cosmic terror.

Carnacki himself is an interesting tran

Voto totale: 3,5

Il Portale del Mostro: 4 stelle

Una casa isolata.
Una Stanza Grigia in cui un'intera famiglia è morta strangolata.
Una porta chiusa che sbatte nel cuore della notte.
La mano assassina di un fantasma.

L'antologia inizia col botto con una gran bella storiella di orrore gotico.
Da brivid

Another paranormal investigator in the tradition of Van Helsing, Dr. Hesselius, and John Silence, I was curious to see what Hodgson would do with the idea, especially after reading his
House on the Borderland
and finding it to be refreshingly uncanny. Unfortunately, the Carnacki stories are so f

Carnacki was the spiritual grandfather of Mulder & Scully... and whoever your current favorite supernatural sleuth of choice might be. Half the time he finds humans faking frauds and half the time it's a real supernatural evil, and a lot of the fun is trying to figure it out with the clues he discov

Carnacki can be described as the Sherlock of the occult world. This collection of 9 stories brings us tales of weird supernatural phenomena, some of which are genuinely perplexing while the rest are a result of devious human enterprise. All these stories were published in The Idler Magazine between

"Can you chaps understand?"

No, Carnacki, in all honesty I can't really say I do.

I haven't read anything else written by Hodgson (I know he didn't write only short stories but also novels), but let me tell you, the Carnacki stories are terribly written. Sometimes in my reviews I refer to what I perso

Altogether, between 1910-1914, Edwardian author of weird and speculative fiction William Hope Hodgson wrote nine stories featuring his "ghost finder" series character, Thomas Carnacki. The first six were collected in the first edition of this book, published in 1913. But the other three were written

Carnacki, the Ghost Finder is a collection of six short stories by the fantasy and horror writer William Hope Hodgson, dating from 1910 and 1912. They all feature Thomas Carnacki, a fictional Edwardian “detective of the occult”, who owes a lot to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation, the consulting det

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