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1tros
Aug. 16, 2007, 3:03 am

Currently reading a new collection of short stories by Hodgson called
"Adrift on the Haunted Seas". Very similar to "Boats of the Glen Carrig".
I highly recommend Hodgson. "House on the Borderland" is one of the strangest novels ever written with one of the strangest monsters in literature.

2rtttt01
Aug. 21, 2007, 12:01 pm

I don't have this collection but Doug Anderson is an excellent editor and one of the most knowledgable people around on weird fantasy, so I'd bet it's good value.

I like Hodgson. Even the stories that have flaws (and quite a few of them do) I still find highly compelling, and he can really evoke the weird.

3Randy_Hierodule
Nov. 26, 2008, 11:35 am

I share your thoughts and praise of The House on the Borderland - hence this intrusion to recommend, without reservation, the film Dead Birds. The setting couldn't be any different cosmetically - taking place in the 1860s semi-USA, involving homicidal bankrobbing deserters from the Confederate Army. But the influence of the novel, once the troupe of riff-raff arrives at "the house", is strongly present.

4unorna
Jun. 10, 2009, 5:44 am

I have a copy of 'House on the Borderland' but haven't dipped into it for many years. Will have to re-read it!
Have you read Carnacki the Ghost-Finder??

5tros
Jun. 26, 2009, 10:45 pm


I read Carnacki the Ghost-Finder a while ago. Unfortunately,
the little grey cells refuse to recall anything. Must be my advanced decrepitude.

6SirBookworm
Nov. 15, 2009, 9:01 pm

Hello all, first posting here. I am currently reading Carnacki the Ghost Finder. No doubt others here have discovered the Wordsworth Mystery and Supernatural series? So far I have also picked up collections of Edith Nesbit and Marjorie Bowen in this series.

7sf_addict
Mrz. 26, 2010, 4:26 pm

Ah yet another author I've yet to read!

8petine
Mrz. 29, 2010, 10:00 am

Yes, I can really recommend Wordworth Editions Mystery and Supernatural. A great series with a lot of stuff I´d never heard about. Carnacki was good, most of it, but there was another story of his (Hodgsons) that I unfortunately can´t remember the name of that was even better. It was something about a ghost ship. (I know, it sounds a bit stupid, but was in fact really good.) It might have been called The Ghost Pirates.

9Ann_Louise
Jun. 20, 2010, 10:20 am

Great to see this series mentioned - the Wordsworth series has been a great source of new stories. When you've been reading ghost stories for a while, it seems harder as time goes by to find "new" stories - at least new to you.
I just wish there were more places to find this series; I've only found it at Half Price Books!

10Makifat
Jun. 22, 2010, 11:04 am

I've ordered a couple online, but yeah, the only store I've seen them in is HPB. Sometimes they cut deals with publishers or distributers on remainders, but these don't seem to be remainders. I notice they sell rather briskly at my local HPBs. I waited too long on the Henry James, and ended up having to buy it online.

11petine
Jul. 4, 2010, 5:11 am

#9 You can find them all at Amazon.co.uk. About 3£ each.

12Ann_Louise
Jul. 19, 2010, 6:50 pm

Thanks for the tip - I've only ordered from Amazon/US, but I'm sure they can help technophobe Americans buy stuff!

13bookstopshere
Jul. 20, 2010, 12:22 am

better - get in the US thru ABE (abe.com) - most of the titles are dirt cheap (1.00@ + shipping)

it's a great series

14katylit
Bearbeitet: Sept. 17, 2010, 9:46 am

I just found Uncanny Stories by May Sinclair in the Wordsworth series at the used-bookstore where I work. I think I have three in that series now, Gertrude Atherton, Marjorie Bowen and now May Sinclair. I agree, they're a wonderful series. I'm always on the lookout for more of them. But then, I'm always on the lookout for more ghost stories I haven't read. Thanks to this thread I read Carnaki on Project Gutenberg yesterday, good stories!

15petine
Sept. 30, 2010, 11:07 am

Agreed. You just can´t get too many of them.

16sf_addict
Feb. 2, 2011, 4:39 am

Currently reading House on the Borderland
Am in slow reading mode at the moment tho

17Makifat
Feb. 2, 2011, 10:23 am

16
Hope you enjoy it. It's really quite a bizarre novel.

I scour the horror/sci fi shelves of my local bookstores for copies of WHH, usually to no avail. I was lucky this past weekend to find some pristine older UK paperbacks of Carnacki the Ghost-Hunter and The Ghost Pirates (albeit with hideously ugly covers). I've only read one of the Carnacki stories, and was quite underwhelmed, but it didn't appear to be considered the best of the lot.

18Makifat
Bearbeitet: Feb. 2, 2011, 4:03 pm

BTW, earlier today I also found a copy of Wordsworth's Crowley story collection, The Drug and Other Stories. Looking forward to seeing how The Great Beast comes across as an author of short stories.

I have no idea what's up with the touchstones...