Carnacki the Ghost-Finder (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: William Hope Hodgson
- First Published: 1913
- Type of Work: Stories
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—occult
- Time of Work: About 1910
- Setting: Great Britain (greater London, the South Coast, and northern England), Galway, and western Ireland
- Genres: Short fiction, Fantasy, Magical and occult fantasy
- Subjects: Extrasensory perception or powers, 1910’s, Detectives, Ireland or Irish people, Great Britain
- Locales: London, England, Ireland, Great Britain
The Plot
Six stories, first published in The Idler in 1910 and New Magazine in 1910 and 1912, appeared in the original 1913 publication of Carnacki the Ghost-Finder. Three additional stories were found among William Hope Hodgson’s papers after his death and were included in an expanded edition published in 1947. The nine stories are presented by a first-person narrator (Dodgson), one of a group of four friends to whom Carnacki reports on his occult investigations. Three of the stories (“The Thing Invisible,” “The Find,” and “The House Among the...
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