Want to know more about William Hope Hodgson and his weird fiction, or about Carnacki the Ghost Finder? Then look no further. Five years ago this October we ran a month-long celebration of Hope Hodgson, and since then we’ve dipped back many times into his maritime fiction, his poetry, his weird novels, and of course his occult detective Carnacki the Ghost Finder. Plus we’ve looked at a whole range of pastiches and projects drawing on elements of WHH’s work, and included many audiovisual links.

We have tons of new weird and detective fiction stuff to mention some time soon, but being in an Octobral mood, we realised that searching for WHH or Carnacki on our site throws up far too many results, including dozens of incidental mentions, so five years on, we thought we’d pull together an index of all the key pieces instead.

N.B. A lot of our early work was done alongside our late and dear friend Sam Gafford, an authority on the subject, who used to maintain his own more scholarly site on Hope Hodgson, and we’re pleased to see that Sam is well-represented below.

As it happens, while we were doing this, we saw that Willie Meikle mentions his work on Carnacki, and his forthcoming Carnacki collection Starry Wisdom & Other Stories, in a recent podcast interview with Charles Christian (Willie comes on around 14:30 minutes in).

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Starry Wisdom & Other Stories can be pre-ordered now:

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Also at the end of this post: A list of some of the Author/Horror sites taking part in the annual October Frights Blog Hop. We, alas, didn’t have time to take part this year, but do flick through the many and varied options they offer – excerpts, horror trivia, promotions and all sorts…

THE INDEX

One or two of the older external links to media may be dead, although we’re trying to replace/refresh those as we go. Internal links should all be active.

THE WRITER ON THE BORDERLAND 1: HODGSON AND CARNACKI

The nature of Carnacki himself, and Tim Prasil on Carnacki and fictional occult detectives.

http://greydogtales.com/blog/the-writer-on-the-borderland-1-hodgson-and-carnacki/

THE WRITER ON THE BORDERLAND 1.5: CARNACKI AND MORE

A little about the original tales, and the inspiration for the Last Edwardian story cycle.

http://greydogtales.com/blog/the-writer-on-the-borderland-1-5-carnacki-and-more/

THE WRITER ON THE BORDERLAND 2: THE VOICE OF HORROR

Samples of audio adaptations, and interview with audio artist Morgan Scorpion.

http://greydogtales.com/blog/the-writer-on-the-borderland-2-the-voice-of-horror/

THE WRITER ON THE BORDERLAND 2.5

Art by Sebastian Cabrol, plus odds and sods of Hodgsoniana.

http://greydogtales.com/blog/the-writer-on-the-borderland-2-5/

WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON: THE INHERITORS

Interview with Willie Meikle, plus mention of other writers pursuing Hodgsonian fiction.

http://greydogtales.com/blog/william-hope-hodgson-the-inheritors/

WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MONTRESOR

An original Carnacki tale by Patrick J Allen, mention of Brandon Barrows’ Carnacki tales, and some French and German Carnackis.

http://greydogtales.com/blog/william-hope-hodgson-for-the-love-of-god-montresor/

THE INHERITORS contd.

Interview with John C Wright re his Night Land stories.

http://greydogtales.com/blog/the-inheritors-3-john-c-wright/

THE WRITER ON THE BORDERLAND 9: AN EDITOR CALLS

Critical commentaries on WHH, and the essay ‘A Concluding Oink’ about the hog motif in Hope Hodgson’s work.

http://greydogtales.com/blog/the-writer-on-the-borderland-9-an-editor-calls/

WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON: HE’S ALIVE, JIM

Essays – ‘The Strange Case of the Books in the Night’ by Sam Gafford and ‘The House of Zarnak’ by James Bojaciuk.

http://greydogtales.com/blog/william-hope-hodgson-10-hes-alive-jim/

WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON: CRITICAL VOICES

Interview with Sam Gafford on the nature of Hope Hodgson’s work.

http://greydogtales.com/blog/william-hope-hodgson-11-critical-voices/

THE WRITER ON THE BORDERLAND 12: ALL HALLOWS EXHAUSTION

Sundry trivia and end of the festival month comments.

http://greydogtales.com/blog/the-writer-on-the-borderland-12-all-hallows-exhaustion/

CARNACKI LIVES

Interview with produce Scott Handcock on Big Finish’s superb audio production of Carnacki.

http://greydo gtales.com/blog/carnacki-lives/

WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON & THE SEA DOGS

Presentation by Dr Alexander Hay on the maritime elements in WHH’s work.

http://greydogtales.com/blog/william-hope-hodgson-and-the-sea-dogs/

CARNACKI :THE SECOND GREAT DETECTIVE

More on Carnacki pastiches, and the fact that there are more stories written in homage to Carnacki the Ghost Finder than there are of any Victorian or Edwardian detective save Sherlock Holmes.

http://greydogtales.com/blog/carnacki-the-second-great-detective/