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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. The zenith of Empire is bookended by two catastrophic wars that slaughter vast swathes of humanity. And yet authors manage to record and create fragile libraries of humanity, its talents, its dreams and increasingly its nightmares.

“The Gateway of the Monster” is a story featuring Thomas Carnacki, a detective who investigates cases of an occult or supernatural nature. It is one of five tales of Carnacki's ghost-hunting exploits that first appeared serially in The Idler magazine in 1910 and were published together with one more as the collection Carnacki the Ghost-Finder in 1913. After a good dinner, Mr. Carnacki relates his experiences of ghost finding to his limited circle of four friends whom he has summoned to his home in Chelsea.

Hodgson’s finest short story is set at sea, where one dark, starless night a schooner is hailed by a voice from a nearby rowing boat. The passenger refuses to bring his craft alongside and insists that the crew put away their lantern. He has approached them to beg for food for his fiancée, who he has left behind upon an island, but dares not come any closer. The crew float a box of food to him, and with heartfelt thanks he rows away. But three hours later he returns....

The Voice in the Night is an uncanny story about a ship becalmed in fog in the middle of the Pacific. In the night, the watch hears a voice hailing the ship. It would seem to be a lone man in a rowing boat, but the individual does not wish to be seen. He is starving and urgently wants food - but despite this, he will not approach the ship and vehemently rejects the idea of being rescued. Instead they have to float some provisions out to him in a crate, which he takes off to a nearby island where his fiancée is dying of hunger.

En una antigua mansión, el dormitorio conocido como el Cuarto Gris fue el sitio de un espeluznante asesinato hace generaciones. Carnacki es convocado para investigar un a espíritu ruidoso que arranca la ropa de cama y golpea las puertas. La manifestación es mucho más poderosa de lo que él esperaba, y pasa una noche miserable, aterrorizado dentro de su Pentagrama Eléctrico mientras una horrible aparición en forma de una mano humana acecha sus defensas. Al día siguiente, Carnacki encuentra el legendario "Anillo de la suerte", y lo lleva con él en el pentagrama.

William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was an English author of horror, fantastic fiction, and science fiction. Hodgson used his experiences at sea to lend authentic detail to his short horror stories, many of which are set on the ocean. He became one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century. He died in World War I at age 40. 'A Tropical Horror' is the vivid story of a ship which is attacked by a hideous sea serpent.

Auf hoher See im Nordpazifik, 1850: Es ist eine dunkle, sternlose Nacht. Ein Segelschiff liegt wegen der anhaltenden Flaute vor Anker. Plötzlich zieht aus heiterem Himmel Dunst auf und hüllt das Schiff immer mehr ein. Im Sichtschutz von Nacht und Nebel nähert sich daraufhin vorsichtig ein Ruderboot, dessen Insasse sich mit verzweifelter Stimme an die Besatzung des Seglers wendet...

"The Thing in the Weeds" is a short story by William Hope Hodgson from his "Sargasso Sea Stories" in which he portrays a monster lurking in the darkest recesses of the unfathomable depths of the sea. An example of Lovecraft’s major principle of "fear of the unknown", the terror in this Hodgson story is a mysterious one, despite the fact that it haunts and kills the characters.

William Hope Hodgson began his working career as a seaman, where he learned to fear and hate the sea. This short story takes place in the laboratory of a scientist who is in contact by one-way wireless telegraph with an unnamed friend who is on a ship trapped in a terrible storm. The sea becomes an evil thing, and the entity is determined to destroy the living, and the ship they came on. But before death comes to those aboard the doomed vessel, it brings out the very worst in the passengers.

De acuerdo con la tradición familiar de los Higgins, toda primogénita es acosada por un caballo fantasmal durante su noviazgo. Esta historia ha sido considerada una leyenda, pero ahora por primera vez en siete generaciones, una mujer es la primogénita y su prometido ha terminado con un brazo roto después de un ataque por un asaltante misterioso. Se le pide entonces a Carnacki que investigar. Él y la mujer, Mary y su prometido, Beaumont, escuchan el golpeteo de cascos en la noche, pero no se ve ningún caballo.

In tropischen Gewässern 1899: Ein fehlender Deckel auf einem Fass voller Salzfleisch löst an Bord der Vier-Mast-Bark "Glen Doon" eine tödliche Kettenreaktion aus, deren Ausmaß die gesamte Besatzung auslöschen könnte..

Una capilla adjunta a una mansión Victoriana contiene una daga antigua, aparentemente maldita, dado que aparentemente ha asesinado a alguien por voluntad propia, y naturalmente, Carnacki es llamado para investigar. Pasa la noche en la capilla de las armadura con su cámara lista para fotografiar cualquier fenómeno misterioso. Toda la noche escucha ruidos misteriosos. Al acercase al altar, la daga casi lo mata. La evidencia fotográfica establece, sin embargo, que hay una explicación racional.

William Hope Hodgson, pese a ser uno de los escritores de terror más interesantes del siglo XX, se encuentra sumido en un injusto olvido.

A classic poem written to mirror the pain of the loss of romance. There is no remedy. There seems no hope. The anguish comes through loud and clear in this piece, written by William Hope Hodgson and narrated by Glenn Hascall.

In this collection of short stories some of our most popular and well-known authors are grouped together with an unfortunate tag: dead at 40. These authors are not run-of-the-mill or ten a penny; many are literary leviathans who left enduring works of literature and sadly may have left us many more had they lived. We will never know.

Carnacki decide ir a un viaje a bordo del Jarvee, el antiguo velero su amigo el capitán Thompson, no solo con la intención de distraerse, sino también para investigar las quejas ambiguas de fantasmas que su amigo había estado haciendo. Carnacki realiza sus métodos de buscar exhaustivamente y completamente en el área designada para eliminar las evidentes causas físicas de una manifestación.

Cuando una cámara en una mansión manifiesta un silbido fuerte y misterioso, el Detective Carnacki es llamado para investigar. Hace una búsqueda extremadamente minuciosa de la habitación, pero no puede encontrar ninguna explicación. Es todavía no está convencido del carácter sobrenatural del sonido hasta que sube una escalera y observa la sala: el piso de la sala está arrugado y tiene la forma de un par de enrojecidos y grotescos labios, enrojezca.

“The Thing Invisible” is a story featuring Thomas Carnacki, a detective who investigates cases of an occult or supernatural nature. It is one of five tales of Carnacki's ghost hunting exploits that first appeared serially in The Idler magazine in 1910 and were published together with one more as a collection Carnacki the Ghost-Finder in 1913. After a good dinner, Mr. Carnacki relates his experiences of ghost-finding to his limited circle of four friends whom he has summoned to his home in Chelsea.

Grief. An emotion we all experience at one time or another, but there is no grief greater then the loss of a loved one. In this short poem by William Hope Hodgson, the narrator is alone with his grief and the realization that what had been will never be again.

Una mansión abandonada en Irlanda muestra signos de estar embrujada, incluyendo lo que parece ser el goteo de sangre desde el techo, y varios hombres que han sido encontrados muertos dentro la casa. ¿Es una broma o una aparición? Carnacki recluta a un grupo de hombres locales corpulentos para investigar, junto con varios perros, y tratan de pasar la noche dentro de la mansión. Durante su Odisea las puertas se azotan, se apaga el fuego, un perro muere y el grupo huye de la casa aterrorizado.