• This illustrated edition includes carefully selected illustrations, a detailed summary, an author biography, and a comprehensive character list.
"Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder" gathers the after-dinner case files of Thomas Carnacki, an occult detective who tackles hauntings with a cool head and a toolkit that mixes ritual and early-twentieth-century tech. He takes nothing on faith: first he measures footprints and timings, tests walls and floorboards, sets tripwires and cameras; only when the ordinary fails does he lay down protective circles, consult the arcane Sigsand Manuscript, and power up his famous electric pentacle. Some investigations expose hoaxes, clever frauds, or tragic misunderstandings; others open onto things genuinely hostile and unearthly. In vivid set pieces-an Irish room that whistles with murderous intent, a family curse that rides like an invisible horse, a house stalked by a night-walking searcher-Hodgson builds dread from method, turning every knock, draft, and photograph into a clue that might save a life or crack a mind. The stories are brisk, atmospheric, and full of procedural detail, narrated by Carnacki's friends as he recounts each adventure by the fire and then answers their uneasy questions. The result is a cornerstone of the "occult detective" tradition: part rational mystery, part nerve-tingling ghost story, ideal for readers who like their chills filtered through evidence, experiment, and the unnerving possibility that not every case can be explained.
