''Carnacki the Ghost-Finder'' is a collection of
occult detective
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short stories
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest t ...
by English writer
William Hope Hodgson
William Hope Hodgson (15 November 1877 – 19 April 1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction, and sci ...
, featuring the
titular protagonist. It was first published in 1913 by the English publisher Eveleigh Nash. In
1947
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Events
January
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, a new edition of 3,050 copies was published by
Mycroft & Moran Mycroft & Moran was an imprint of Arkham House publishers and was created in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1945. The imprint was created to publish weird detective stories and the Solar Pons stories by August Derleth. Arkham retired the imprint in 1982, ...
and included three additional stories (the last three listed below). In 1951
Ellery Queen
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covered the Mycroft & Moran version 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''.
For several decades subsequent to the Mycroft and Moran edition, Carnacki collections routinely if not always contained all nine stories. Project Gutenberg Ebook #10832 (2004) contains only the first six stories, however, and arranges them in sequence of their 1910 and 1912 magazine publication. Some other publications follow Project Gutenberg, perhaps using its text.
Contents
''Carnacki the Ghost-Finder'' contains the following tales:
* "
The Gateway of the Monster", the first story published, January 1910
[
* " The House Among the Laurels"
* " The Whistling Room"
* " The Horse of the Invisible"
* " The Searcher of the End House"
* " The Thing Invisible"
* " The Hog"
* " The Haunted ''Jarvee''"
* " The Find"
]
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1947 short story collections
Mystery short story collections
Horror short story collections
Short story collections by William Hope Hodgson
Occult detective fiction