William Hope Hodgson - Carnacki: "...the history of all love is writ with one pen." (Paperback)

from aadyer

A very esoteric & seemingly aged collection of both ghost and crime stories, with a couple being positively Lovecraftian in character. Very formulaic with a lot of haunted house phenomena being the main story point which the stories rotate around these make for, in the main, fairly enjoyable read...

from RandyStafford

It's easy to mock the Carnacki tales. They are not the first occult detective series. Hodgson seems to have created the character to cash in on the potential of a series character. The large number of magazines in 1910, when the first story was published, meant, unlike today, short fiction was us...

from patrickgarson

This is one of the scarier anthologies I own - the irony being at least half the time the scares are fake! Carnacki is probably the first ghost investigator - fictional or otherwise. The stories basically involve him going to a haunted place, camping out, and figuring out whether it's real or not...

from patrickgarson

This is one of the scarier anthologies I own - the irony being at least half the time the scares are fake! Carnacki is probably the first ghost investigator - fictional or otherwise. The stories basically involve him going to a haunted place, camping out, and figuring out whether it's real or not...