Later: Well, the DVDs arrived, and the Carnacki episode (“The Horse of the Invisible”) is really good. So, as you probably guessed, I ordered that DVD set. Plus, the series also adapted one of the Lady Molly of Scotland Yard stories. (The other Carnacki stories all involve apparent “hauntings,” though in some cases the causes turn out to be partially, or entirely, human.)īut then I had another Carnacki discovery - one of the stories, and one of the really good ones at that, was adapted for British TV as part of a series called “The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes.” With Donald Pleasance as Thomas Carnacki. So, I worried that in the time since “The Thing Invisible” Hodgson had lost the thread of the character.īut the last two were very much up to standard, and, in an especially nice touch, the final story was a straight detective story, with no supernatural elements at all. Also, those six stories were adapted by Big Finish productions in a series of audio adaptations.īut what about the other three stories, which were written (or at least published) later? I think I found a book online once that appeared to have all nine of the stories, but it was somewhere around $40, and I’m not that enthusiastic.īut then I was checking out the TV Tropes* website and I found that it has a Thomas Carnacki page, and that page has this link.Īnd so, with great excitement, I read the first of the three new (to me) stories, and it was really lousy! Definitely weaker than any of first six. Six of the nine Thomas Carnacki stories were published in a volume called Carnacki, the Ghost Finder, which I have. Carnacki himself was not supernatural (or, as he would have said “ab-natural”) - he just investigated “hauntings” (or things which appeared to be hauntings), using very scientific tools (for 1910). Thomas Carnacki was a supernatural detective, in stories written by William Hope Hodgson in the early 20th century.
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