Name: Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, The Voice in the Night, and Other Horrors: The Best Weird Fiction & Ghost Stories of William Hope Hodgson
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Author: William Hope Hodgson
ISBN: 9781544841632

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Type

Physical Book

Author

William Hope Hodgson

Publisher

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Language

English

Pages

456

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.60 kg.

ISBN13

9781544841632

Synopsis "Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, The Voice in the Night, and Other Horrors: The Best Weird Fiction & Ghost Stories of William Hope Hodgson"

One of the leading names in classic weird fiction, William Hope Hodgson remains an influential and powerful storyteller, remembered chiefly for his nautical horror stories and for his occult detective, Carnacki the Ghost-finder. Hodgson's career - cut off prematurely in World War One - was extensive and elaborate, and this book contains the cream of the crop: the Sargasso Sea Mythos, a broad selection of his best maritime horror stories, printings of his lesser known strange tales (including The Baumoff Explosive and The Goddess of Death), four of the most striking Carnacki cases, and excerpts from two of his elaborate supernatural novels. Illustrated and annotated, these stories include episodes of fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery: floating stone ships, derelicts teeming with man-eating rats, ghost pirates, mutant weed men, carnivorous trees, parasitic fungi, were-sharks (you read that right), a ship with a heartbeat, a cursed room that whistles in the night, a castaway who refuses to let his hideous face be seen, freakish mutations, deadly ghost ships, bloodthirsty octopi, demonic hogs, and more. Hodgson's fiction reveals a level of anguished vulnerability that blends the cynical realism with fantastic romanticism, creating a borderland - a liminal doorway - that brings the anxieties of the every-day into contact with the fantasias of the nightmarish. The landscapes of his fiction - the weed-choked Sargasso Sea, the steaming South Pacific, Irish manor houses, derelict ghost ships - act as borderlands whereby these uncomfortable thoughts and existential pangs can enter into our world - to haunt and infect it. The illustrated, annotated stories included in this unique anthology - stories of fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery - are among Hodgson's best and will not fail to disturb, amuse, and inhabit your imagination. TALES INCLUDED in this ANNOTATED EDITION: The Grey Seas are Dreaming of My Death The "Shamraken" Homeward-Bounder Out of the Storm From the Tideless Sea Further News from the "Homebird" The Thing in the Weeds The Finding of the "Graiken" A Tropical Horror The Mystery of the Derelict The Derelict The Stone Ship Demons of the Sea The Haunted "Pampero" Excerpts: The Boats of the Glenn Carrig Excerpts: The Ghost Pirates The Voice in the Night The Baumoff Explosive The Goddess of Death The Valley of Lost Children The Terror of the Water Tank The Gateway of the Monster The Horse of the Invisible The Searcher of the End House The Whistling Room

William Hope Hodgson

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Nació en 1875, hijo de un clérigo de Essex, y desde muy temprano se hizo a la mar como tripulante de barcos mercantes. No obstante, Hodgson aborrecía aquella vida, y en cuanto tuvo ocasión la abandonó para dedicarse a otras labores y a escribir relatos llenos de misterio, terror y aventura, ambientados muchos de ellos en el mar, un mar peligroso y lleno de entidades monstruosas y barcos abandonados. A pesar de que durante años la obra de Hodgson permaneció en el olvido a causa de su temprana muerte en Francia, durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, truncándose así su carrera literaria, autores como H.P. Lovecraft, que hablaba con entusiasmo de su novela sobrenatural La casa en el confín de la tierra (en esta misma colección), o Clark Ashton Smith lo reivindicaron como maestro (junto a Ambrose Bierce y otros) de la naciente escuela norteamericana del Horror Sobrenatural.

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