Name: Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
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Author: Hodgson, William Hope
ISBN: 9781494395308

Type

Physical Book

Author

William Hope Hodgson

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

166

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN13

9781494395308

Synopsis "Carnacki, the Ghost Finder"

Unlike his compatriot, Sherlock Holmes, when Thomas Carnacki investigates cases, he often encounters ghosts and the supernatural. These six stories by William Hope Hodgson comprise the first six Carnacki tales published back in 1910-1912, and they stand the test of time. If you like paranormal detectives, read this book to see how the genre got its start.

William Hope Hodgson

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He was born in 1875, son of a clergyman from Essex, and from an early age he went to sea as a crew member on merchant ships. However, Hodgson detested that life, and as soon as he had the chance, he left it to engage in other work and to write stories full of mystery, terror, and adventure, many of them set at sea, a dangerous sea filled with monstrous entities and abandoned ships. Although Hodgson's work remained forgotten for years due to his early death in France during World War I, cutting short his literary career, authors such as H.P. Lovecraft, who spoke enthusiastically about his supernatural novel The House on the Borderland (in this same collection), or Clark Ashton Smith claimed him as a master (along with Ambrose Bierce and others) of the emerging American school of Supernatural Horror.

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