William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) wrote many classic of supernatural horror including THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND, THE NIGHT LAND, "The Voice in the Night", "From the Tideless Sea" as well as creating CARNACKI, THE GHOST-FINDER. Since 1992, Sam Gafford has been at the fore-front of Hodgson criticism and scholarship. This book combines several of his most important essays along with newer articles about Hodgson's life and work. Included here is the ground-breaking essay, "Writing Backwards: The Novels of William Hope Hodgson" that led to a completely new evaluation of Hodgson's novels with the revolutionary claim that THE NIGHT LAND was actually the FIRST novel that Hodgson ever wrote! An in-depth investigation of Hodgson's infamous with Harry Houdini in 1902 is the subject of "Houdini v Hodgson: The Blackburn Challenge". This collection provides a foundation for further criticism and study of Hodgson's life and career.

Hodgson: A Collection of Essays by Sam Gafford

Literature & Fiction

Gafford, Sam

Genre Fiction

Ulthar Press

The adventure begins with an invitation to dinner and a story and, for over 100 years, readers have accepted that invitation from Carnacki, The Ghost Finder. Since his first appearance in 1912, William Hope Hodgson’s Carnacki has continued to thrill and amaze. Armed with his scientific apparatus of cameras and the ever-present ‘electric pentacle’, Carnacki has investigated cases of hauntings and terror both contrived and real! Collected here are 11 new stories, and one play, featuring Carnacki and his ‘new adventures’! In these tales, he comes face to face with forces from the ‘Outer Monstrosities’ as well as numerous specters and evil curses. Danger and death are Carnacki’s companions and there are things that even the legendary SaaaMaaa Ritual cannot dispel. Thrill to these new stories of a character who has entranced readers for a century and, hopefully, a century yet to come!

Carnacki: The New Adventures

The second issue of SARGASSO: The Journal of William Hope Hodgson Studies is now available. This issue includes more articles about Hodgson's life and work as well as fiction, poetry and art inspired by this legendary writer. Contents include:“Under the Skin: A Profile of William Hope Hodgson” by Jane Frank“Carnacki Pastiche: A Bibliography” by James Bojaciuk“Contemporary Views: Pieces on William Hope Hodgson from the Idler and the Bookman” by Phillip A. Ellis“A Home on the Borderland: William Hope Hodgson and Borth” by Mark Valentine“A Concluding Oink: An Abnormal Flight of Fancy” by James Bojaciuk“Foreshadowing Carnacki: Algernon Blackwood’s ‘Smith: An Episode in a Lodging House” by Joseph Hinton“Dust and Atoms: The Influence of William Hope Hodgson on Clark Ashton Smith” by Scott ConnorsPoetry“Dead Seamen Gone in Search of the Same Landfall” by Phillip A. Ellis“House on the Borderland I &amp; II” by Charles Lovecraft“Come, Dream of the Ocean” by Phillip A. Ellis“Ocean Rain” by Phillip A. Ellis“The Devil Mists, What Do They Hide?” by Charles Lovecraft“Coral Seas” by Phillip A. Ellis“The Burning Ship” by Phillip A. Ellis“And the Worried Waters Laughed” by Charles LovecraftFiction“Low the Ascomycotan Sky” by Deborah Walker“The Flames of the Drakkar” by John B. Ford“After ‘The Voice in the Night’” by Laurie Needell“The Shop on the Borderland” by Robb BordersWith full color cover and back cover by Robert H. Knox. The first issue sold out quickly so demand for this second issue will be high!

Sargasso #2: The Journal of William Hope Hodgson Studies

History & Criticism

During the short period from the early 80s through the 90s, a small group of dedicated fans and scholars worked diligently to bring more understanding to the life and work of H. P. Lovecraft. These people were known, informally, as ‘The Providence Pals’. Working in a time when Lovecraft was still widely unknown and little noticed by literary circles, this group pioneered new research and blazed a path for the eventual acknowledgement of Lovecraft as a major literary writer and thinker of the 20th century. ‘The Providence Pals’ included many who would go on to become leading figures in the scholarship of Lovecraft’s life and work. They were S. T. Joshi, Marc Michaud, Jason Eckhardt, Donald R. Burleson, Peter Cannon, Steven J. Mariconda, Robert M. Price, Will Murray, Mollie Burleson, Robert H. Knox, Ken Neily and Sam Gafford. For a brief, shining moment, these people came together in friendship and a common desire to advance Lovecraft’s cause. In this book, learn what the group meant to these individuals and sample some of their writings. This volume is a celebration of those times and these people for we are all, in a sense, ‘Providence Pals’.

Providence Pals: Memories and Miscellany

Price, Robert M.

Cannon, Peter

Murray, Will

JOSHI, S.T.

Mariconda, Steven J.

Michaud, Marc

Burleson, Don

Eckhardt, Jason

Burleson, Mollie

Literary

When a traveller in north central Massachusetts takes the wrong fork at the junction of the Aylesbury pike just beyond Dean’s Corners he comes upon a lonely and curious country.” --HP Lovecraft Horror can lurk in the most unlikely places: from the secluded cottage to the teeming metropolis. Lovecraft knew that terror could be rooted in the geography of a place as much as in an uncaring cosmos or a man’s soul. In these 17 brand new tales of chilling Lovecraftian horrors by leading authors, discover new lands of terror. Learn the truth about the glories of Y’ha-nthlei and what really happened to Erich Zann. Discover the fate of Tillinghast’s monstrous machine and do a deal with Nyarlathotep down in the byways of Mississippi. Sometimes that lonely farmhouse, brooding silently in its isolation, can be more terrifying than forgotten monoliths on an uncharted Pacific island.

A Lonely and Curious Country: Tales from the Lands of Lovecraft

Christine Morgan

Matthew Carpenter

Steven Prizeman

Seán Farrell

KH Vaughn

Pete Rawlik

Rebecca Allred

Susan Brian

Damir Salkovic

Jonathan Titchenal

United States

Even Carnacki, the great ‘Ghost-Finder’, himself has cases that he will not speak about. In these 12 tales, we learn the details of those ‘Lost Cases’ that Carnacki talked about only in hushed whispers. Learn the truth behind “The Steeple Monster Case”, the horror of “The Grunting Man”, the creeping terror of “The Grey Dog” and so much more. When you have learned the truth behind these cases, you may find yourself haunted as well!

CARNACKI: The Lost Cases

Grant, John Linwood

Meikle, William

Reynolds, Josh

HOWARD, John

McNamee, Paul R.

Kidd, A. F.

Rutledge, Charles R.

Gracey, James

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