{"id":7050,"date":"2021-11-15T20:55:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T20:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/?p=7050"},"modified":"2021-11-15T20:55:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T20:55:28","slug":"the-sins-of-our-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/the-sins-of-our-past\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SINS OF OUR PAST"},"content":{"rendered":"

To mark the anniversary of William Hope Hodgson<\/strong>\u2019s birth (15 November 1877), here\u2019s one of my Hodgsonian tales again for free. It\u2019s downloadable, designed with a cover and Author\u2019s Note at the end. The original story, \u2018A Dark Trade\u2019, was written for Carnacki: The Lost Cases<\/em> (Ulthar, 2016), and is a tale of the injustice and wickedness of other times.It hasn’t yet appeared in any of my collections.
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It\u2019s the first and only \u2018traditional\u2019 Carnacki story from me, despite what people think. I don\u2019t do Carnacki pastiches in general, and my \u2018Tales of the Last Edwardian\u2019 series deliberately covers the period after his death, and the period when he was less well known, with the character as an aside or a passing mention.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Lost Cases<\/em> included three pieces by me: i) an introductory story that was, in effect, a really bad joke; ii) \u2018A Dark Trade\u2019, which is canonical and has a very uncomfortable theme beneath it, and iii) a very different tale \u2013 \u2018Grey Dog\u2019. \u2018Grey Dog\u2019 is my quintessential comment on Thomas Merton Carnacki\u2019s life, and may be the only, or one of the only, stories which is entirely from his inner viewpoint. That one, which is in my collection A Persistence of Geraniums<\/em>, has variously been described as \u201cthe best Carnacki story Hope Hodgson never wrote\u201d, \u201ctoo downbeat\u201d, and \u201ctragically sad\u201d. I saw it more as a meditation on life, and simply like its mood.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The story below has all the trappings you\u2019d expect, but takes the Ghost Finder somewhere that ought to make monsters of the Outer Circle seem kind. Any more would sort of give it away.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This standalone version will be downloadable here for the next week.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Click the link below to access the pdf.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

You can find many articles and interviews about Hope Hodgson or Carnacki on greydogtales<\/em> using the search box. And next year should see the publication of The Book of Carnacki<\/em> (Belanger Books), edited by me \u2013 an anthology of tributes, pastiches and other pieces devoted \u2013 rather obviously \u2013 to Carnacki the Ghost Finder. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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In the meantime, do have a look at my recent second collection, Where All is Night, and Starless<\/em> (Trepidatio 2021), which is less Edwardian but more wide-ranging…<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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AVAILABLE NOW THROUGH AMAZON UK & US, AND THROUGH THE PUBLISHER, JOURNALSTONE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amazon US: Where All is Night, and Starless<\/a><\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Amazon UK: Where All is Night, and Starless<\/a><\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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