The Casebook of Carnacki The Ghost-Finder (Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural) - Softcover

Hodgson, W.H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840225297 ISBN 13: 9781840225297

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions, 2006

Synopsis

This Wordsworth Edition is edited by and includes an exclusive Introduction by David Stuart Davies.

‘I saw something terrible rising up through the middle of the ‘defence’. It rose with a steady movement. I saw it pale and huge through the whirling funnel of cloud - a monstrous pallid snout rising out of that unknowable abyss. It rose higher and higher. Through a thinning of the cloud I saw one small eye... a pig's eye with a sort of vile understanding shining at the back of it’.

Thomas Carnacki is a ghost finder, an Edwardian psychic detective, investigating a wide range of terrifying hauntings presented in the nine stories in this complete collection of his adventures. Encountering such spine-chilling phenomena as ‘The Whistling Room’, the life-threatening dangers of the phantom steed in ‘The Horse of the Invisible’ and the demons from the outside world in ‘The Hog’, Carnacki is constantly challenged by spiritual forces beyond our knowledge. To complicate matters, he encounters human skullduggery also. Armed with a camera, his Electric Pentacle and various ancient tomes on magic, Carnacki faces the various dangers his supernatural investigations present with great courage. These exciting and frightening stories have long been out of print.

These exciting and frightening stories have long been out of print. Now readers can thrill to them again in this new Wordsworth series

About this title

Synopsis

This title is edited with an introduction by David Stuart Davies - 'I saw something terrible rising up through the middle of the 'defence'. It rose with a steady movement. I saw it pale and huge through the whirling funnel of cloud - a monstrous pallid snout rising out of that unknowable abyss. It rose higher and higher. Through a thinning of the cloud I saw one small eye...a pig's eye with a sort of vile understanding shining at the back of it.'Thomas Carnacki is a ghost finder, an Edwardian psychic detective, investigating a wide range of terrifying hauntings presented in the nine stories in this complete collection of his adventures. Encountering such spine-chilling phenomena as 'The Whistling Room', the life-threatening dangers of the phantom steed in 'The Horse of the Invisible' and the demons from the outside world in 'The Hog', Carnacki is constantly challenged by spiritual forces beyond our knowledge. To complicate matters, he encounters human skullduggery also. Armed with a camera, his Electric Pentacle and various ancient tomes on magic, Carnacki faces the various dangers his supernatural investigations present with great courage.

These exciting and frightening stories have long been out of print. Now readers can thrill to them again in this new Wordsworth series.

About the Author

Part of Wordsworth's Mystery & Supernatural series, featuring classic spine chilling tales, some previously unavailable for many years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1840225297
• ISBN 13: 9781840225297
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Davies David Stuart