Edited with an Introduction by David Stuart Davies'I saw something terrible rising up through the middle of the 'defence' It rose with a steady movement I saw it pale & huge through the whirling funnel of cloud
- a monstrous pallid snout rising out of that unknowable abyss It rose higher & higher Through a thinning of the cloud I saw one small eye a pig's eye with a sort of vile understanding shining at the back of it' Thomas Carnacki is a ghost finder an Edwardian psychic detective investigating a wide range of terrifying hauntings presented in the nine stories in this complete collection of his adventures Encountering such spine-chilling phenomena as ' The Whistling Room' the life-threatening dangers of the phantom steed in ' The Horse of the Invisible' & the demons from the outside world in ' The Hog' Carnacki is constantly challenged by spiritual forces beyond our knowledge To complicate matters he encounters human skullduggery also Armed with a camera his Electric Pentacle & various ancient tomes on magic Carnacki faces the various dangers his supernatural investigations present with great courage These exciting & frightening stories have long been out of print Now rewaders can thrill to them again in this new Wordsworth series