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Summary: A Victorian X-Files!! A thrilling, page-turner!!
Review: "The Ghost Pirates" represents the third installment in the loosely-defined trilogy. The unifying theme seems to be the dreadful forces that lurk just beneath the veneer of what we, in immense folly, believe to be "reality". Malign forces may surface at any moment to drag us to destruction or worse! (Be sure to read the first two books of the trilogy in Gothic Horror 1 by Hodgson).In a change of pace, "Carnacki, the Ghost Finder" is a victorian-age version of the X-Files! The truth is out there (or is it?). A wild ride for gothic horror lovers. TWO rarely found William Hope Hodgson novels are published in one volume. A good value & a great read! Don't turn off the lights...
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Summary: A Victorian X-Files!! A thrilling, page-turner!!
Review: "The Ghost Pirates" represents the third installment in the loosely-defined trilogy. The unifying theme seems to be the dreadful forces that lurk just beneath the veneer of what we, in immense folly, believe to be "reality". Malign forces may surface at any moment to drag us to destruction or worse! (Be sure to read the first two books of the trilogy in Gothic Horror 1 by Hodgson). In a change of pace, "Carnacki, the Ghost Finder" is a victorian-age version of the X-Files! The truth is out there (or is it?). A wild ride for gothic horror lovers. TWO rarely found William Hope Hodgson novels are published in one volume. A good value & a great read! Don't turn off the lights...
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Summary: one good, one dull
Review: cranacki's mysteries are either too dull, or the way they are written is. a ghost mystery where there turns out there is no ghost, is a disappointment to me. the ghost pirates is well written, but the horror is never really there
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Summary: A Nearly Forgotten Genius
Review: Many years ago (more than I like to remember) I found an old copy of "Carnacki the Ghost Finder" in storage in our local library. I had read "The Night Land" and "The House On The Borderland and liked them, but "Carnacki" blew me away. It is a series of stories about a truly scientific ghost hunter who encounters one or two hoaxes as well as real and distinctly individual haunts and what might be called demons. In it the protagonist invented a progressive series of devices and techniques based on deduced and experimentally verified observations. It was a world that "hung together" and I am surprised that no one really followed up on the concept. Set in Victorian-Edwardian Britain and Ireland the stories have the ring of someone who knows his milieu and the characters definitely seem like people you might know, though Carnacki is definitely an odd bird. I only read one excerpt from "Glen Carrig", titled, I believe, "The Voice In the Mist", but that was in an English textbook in grammar school! Someone had a high opinion of the author's literary ability to put it in that collection, and I am inclined to agree. At his peak Hodgson was a superb writer.
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Summary: Important reads for devotees
Review: The Carnaki stories are uneven, but still enjoyable. I'd heard of them for years before this collection was published. If I was rating the edition and not the actual stories, it would get 1 star. No introductions, no background to the stories or author. Poor presentation.
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