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Detective stories in which the great Thomas Carnacki investigates the supernatural using scientific tools, such as photography, and tools that are augmented by theories of the supernatural, such as the electric pentacle, which uses vacuum tubes to repel supernatural forces.
Language: English
Published in: 1912
Word count: 77,791 words (≈ about 5 hours)
Source: http://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/ff4/carnacki.htm
Copyright: This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA.
Get in the mood for Halloween with some ghosts, vampires, monsters, and Strange Events. Warning: these stories may make your hair stand up.
Classic Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Speculative Literature.
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Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:00:46 +0100
One of the classics in this genre but best read as individual short stories as the episodes can be a bit repetitive and long winded (but they were paid by the word in those days, weren't they). Viewed from the 21st century Hodgson's devices have a 'steam-punk- quality that's perhaps even more entertaining than intended.
Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:38:23 +0100
I don't find Lovecraft's vision of the otherworldly visitors at all at play here. These are strange, dangerous, and ghostly apparitions, but their harm is almost always localized. Hodgson summons great Lovecraftian fear and awe in his excellent novel The House on the Borderland.
I, like Pyrophage, enjoy these tales, though. Hodgson drones on a little too long, but the Carnacki is a likably fallible hero, unlike his relative contemporary Sherlock Holmes.
A great read for fans of early horror, detective… (more)
I don't find Lovecraft's vision of the otherworldly visitors at all at play here. These are strange, dangerous, and ghostly apparitions, but their harm is almost always localized. Hodgson summons great Lovecraftian fear and awe in his excellent novel The House on the Borderland.
I, like Pyrophage, enjoy these tales, though. Hodgson drones on a little too long, but the Carnacki is a likably fallible hero, unlike his relative contemporary Sherlock Holmes.
A great read for fans of early horror, detective fiction, and early speculative fiction.
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