Name: Carnacki: The Ghost Finder
SKU: 60749890
Price: 335.00 ZAR
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Author: Hodgson, William Hope
ISBN: 9781534777538

Type

Physical Book

Author

William Hope Hodgson

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

25.4x17.8x0.5 cm

Weight

0.18 kg.

ISBN13

9781534777538

Synopsis "Carnacki: The Ghost Finder"

Carnacki, The Ghost Finder By William Hope Hodgson Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder is a collection of occult detective short stories by author William Hope Hodgson. It was first published in 1913 by the English publisher Eveleigh Nash. In 1947, a new edition of 3,050 copies was published by Mycroft & Moran and included three additional stories. The Mycroft & Moran version is listed as No. 53 in Queen's Quorum: A History of the Detective-Crime Short Story As Revealed by the 100 Most Important Books Published in this Field Since 1845 by Ellery Queen.

William Hope Hodgson

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He was born in 1875, son of a clergyman from Essex, and from an early age he went to sea as a crew member on merchant ships. However, Hodgson detested that life, and as soon as he had the chance, he left it to engage in other work and to write stories full of mystery, terror, and adventure, many of them set at sea, a dangerous sea filled with monstrous entities and abandoned ships. Although Hodgson's work remained forgotten for years due to his early death in France during World War I, cutting short his literary career, authors such as H.P. Lovecraft, who spoke enthusiastically about his supernatural novel The House on the Borderland (in this same collection), or Clark Ashton Smith claimed him as a master (along with Ambrose Bierce and others) of the emerging American school of Supernatural Horror.

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