Horror & Gothic
Carnacki the Ghost Finder
William Hope Hodgson's collection presents supernatural investigations by occult detective Carnacki, who confronts haunted houses, strange forces, and unexplained phenomena
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Books by William Hope Hodgson
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Horror & Gothic
Carnacki, the ghost finder
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder collects supernatural investigations featuring Thomas Carnacki, an eccentric detective who approaches hauntings with a mixture of scientific curiosity, ritual knowledge, skepticism, and sheer nerve. Each story usually begins with an apparently impossible phenomenon—a
Horror & Gothic
The Boats of the Glen Carrig
Hodgson’s sea-horror novel follows survivors of a shipwreck into bizarre islands inhabited by strange creatures, dangerous environments, and unexplained horrors
Art & Aesthetics
The Boats of the Glen Carrig
The Boats of the Glen Carrig begins when the ship Glen Carrig is wrecked, leaving survivors in small boats at the mercy of an ocean that seems to contain things no sensible sailor should ever have to encounter. William Hope Hodgson turns the sea into a realm of isolation, strange islands
Horror & Gothic
The Ghost Pirates
A sailing voyage slowly turns uncanny as the crew confronts an invisible or barely understood threat at sea. Hodgson uses isolation and uncertainty to make the ship itself feel like a trap
Classics & Literature
The house on the borderland
The House on the Borderland begins with a strange manuscript discovered after the apparent disappearance of its writer. What follows is one of William Hope Hodgson’s most unsettling works: a mixture of cosmic horror, supernatural fantasy, isolation, and visions of realities far beyond ordinary
Horror & Gothic
The House on the Borderland
A cosmic-horror narrative in which a seemingly isolated house becomes the vantage point for visions of time, space and forces beyond ordinary comprehension
Classics & Literature
The night land
The Night Land is one of the strangest and most relentlessly bleak novels in imaginative literature. William Hope Hodgson imagines a far-future Earth after the Sun has gone dark and humanity has retreated into a gigantic last refuge, the Last Redoubt
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