Series
Carnacki (Hodgson)
William Hope Hodgson · 6 novelettes · 4 short stories · 1 collection · 1909–1947
Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder collects William Hope Hodgson's stories about Thomas Carnacki, an occult detective who investigates reportedly haunted houses using both traditional folklore-derived defenses (like his invented Electric Pentacle) and a skeptic's willingness to find that a "haunting" is really a human hoax. Narrated after the fact to friends over dinner at his Chelsea flat, the stories sit near the root of the occult-detective genre alongside contemporaries inspired by Sherlock Holmes.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
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By decade
- 1900s1
- 1910s7
- 1920s1
- 1930s0
- 1940s2
Shape
6 novelettes · 4 short stories · 1 collection
1 author · completed series
reads like:horrormurder investigationbritish islesearly 20th centuryeerieadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 11 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Hogdarkest · most intense
- Carnacki, the Ghost-Finderbrightest · calmest