Carnacki, the Ghost Finder

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......more

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......more

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......more

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......more

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......more