William H. Hodgson, born in 1877 in Blackmore (Essex) and killed by a shell 19 April 1918 in Belgium, is an English writer known for his short stories and fantasy novels. Yet it seems forgotten today and myself, I could not remember before trying to store his book in my library, what was already dozing since the early 70s, his excellent novel The house at the edge of the world. With Carnacki hunter ghosts, Haze Terre Editions compiled all the stories in which the hero appears Hodgson, the detective of the supernatural Carnacki! This volume therefore brings together all the texts were not available for a long time and in the order in which they were published, with the original illustrations in 1910 for the magazine The Idler. A perfect book to accompany you during winter evenings, which can not delay. We are in the early twentieth century, has Carnacki fifties, lives at 472 Cheyne Walk in the upmarket Chelsea. All her adventures begin in the same way, it sends an invitation to his true friends Arkright Jessop, Taylor and Dodgson, we dine relatively quickly by discussing this and that, and then we go to the salon where "had Carnacki custom to settle in his big chair, stuffing and light his pipe, and wait for us we are ourselves comfortably settled in our respective chairs and our usual places. Then he started talking, and we talked about his adventures. " And what adventures! Whenever there are problems or ship haunted houses, invisible thing, Hexes that our detective will face with courage and ingenuity to overcome. But the author's clever and original as his hero as appropriate, is facing "real" demonic spirits and sometimes it is only trickery than human. Weapons of Cariacki, its magnesium in camera (William Hodgson was the picture itself) and his knowledge of occult sciences. The detective does not a superhero, he confesses his fears and questions and when he tells puzzle solving to its guests, it sometimes can recognize that for some details of his investigation he has no explanation for, he does not know. Often the author punctuates the speech Cariacki questions asked his four friends (and thus the reader) like: "Do you understand me well? "" It makes you wonder, right? "To challenge us directly and get you involved. To read this set of new, sometimes inevitably thinks Sherlock Holmes without being able to specify more, Britain and roughly the time, perhaps? What is certain by cons is that I highly recommend this book to shiver deliciously, a cup of tea in hand, or a pure malt drink according to your preference. "From that moment until two in the morning, nothing happened. But shortly after two o'clock, as I noted the approaching my watch to the dim light of dark lanterns, I felt an absolutely extraordinary nervousness. In the end, I leaned toward the owner and whispered to her that I had the strange feeling that something was going to happen and to be ready with his lantern. At the same time, I wanted to take mine. But as I reached the hand, the night that filled the hallway suddenly seemed to take a deep purple color. It was not (I insist!) As if a light shone in the darkness, just as if the natural darkness of the night had changed color, if I may say so, from within. You follow me? While emerging from this violet night, crossing this colorful dark violet, appeared by running a naked child. "
