Carnacki the Ghost Finder
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do...
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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780554327389 (0554327384)
Publish date: August 18th 2008
Publisher: BiblioLife
Pages no: 152
Edition language: English
The first story was enjoyable, but the rest of the collection (which included six short stories) were simply more of the same thing: same structure, same approaches by the "ghost hunter," same less than suspenseful scenarios. I picked this title to read because I've read Hodgson's more well known wo...
I read "The Invisible Thing", a short story in this collection, years ago, enjoyed it, and became interested in Carnacki. After re-reading "The Invisible Thing" and reading the other 8 short stories in this collection, I have to say that I have an overall feeling of disappointment. While "The Invisi...
Two out of five good stories isn't terrible...
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Starting off strong, I was struck by the effectiveness of Hodgson's writing. He tells a good ghost story, if not as subtle and gradual a build up as M.R. James, they are more tense and frightening, the supernatural forces (indeed, when they were supernatural) more malignant.But after a while the fo...
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