William Hope Hodgson
Supernatural detective Thomas Carnacki is on the case of a mysterious horse in this haunting short story by fantastic fiction writer William Hope Hodgson.
There is a legend in the Hisgins family: any first-born female will be haunted by a ghostly horse during her courtship. The story has long been dismissed as nonsense—until their daughter Mary's fiancé, Beaumont, is attacked by a mysterious assailant. Detective Thomas Carnacki is summoned
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Published posthumously in the Premier Magazine in 1929, "The Haunted Jarvee" is one of the final three stories featuring Carnacki the Ghost Finder.
In need of an escape, supernatural detective Thomas Carnacki boards the Jarvee, an antique sailing ship owned by his old friend Captain Thompson. But revitalization isn't Carnacki's only motive. The captain has for some time been complaining that ghosts haunt his ship. Finding nothing physical to
...On Sir Alfred Jarnock's estate in South Kent, there is a chapel rumored to be haunted. It is said that any enemy who enters the chapel after nightfall will be struck down by the dagger that rests over the altar. Engraved upon the dagger's sheath is an image of Christ crucified and the phrase, in Latin, "Vengeance Is Mine, I Will Repay." After the estate's butler falls victim to the alleged curse, the lord of the manor's eldest son calls Thomas
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