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Samenvatting van Carnacki, de spokenjager
- 8 min. leestijd
- 10 parts
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Carnacki sits inside a sealed chalk star as something circles beyond the garlic and blue light.
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Samenvatting: 8 min leestijd
- Leestijd
- Ongeveer 3 h 25 min2 h 45 min fast, 4 h 5 min slow
- Lengte
- 49.100 woorden
- Bibliotheekniveau
- Gemiddeld longer sentences, everyday words
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- 1913by William Hope Hodgson
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Carnacki, de spokenjager in short
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder is six nights of fear told from a comfortable chair. In each tale, a house, a castle, or a chapel holds a haunting that frightens honest people. Carnacki arrives with seals, cameras, chalk, and an electric star.
What Carnacki, de spokenjager is about
What would you do if a door slammed in the dark at the end of a corridor, and your legs refused to carry you toward it? Carnacki knows that feeling well. He is a ghost finder who lives on Cheyne Walk in Chelsea.
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder is a book of six tales by William Hope Hodgson. Each one is told after dinner to four friends, from a big chair by the fire. Carnacki measures rooms, seals doors with wax and hair, and sets cameras to fire flashlights. You get careful detection and real chills.
Voor wie is het?. Readers who love fireside ghost stories, locked rooms chilled by strange winds, and a hero who photographs the unseen will enjoy this collection. It suits fans of Edwardian atmosphere and careful detection.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
Carnacki tells his cases over dinner on Cheyne Walk
The book has a frame that repeats in every tale. A card arrives from Carnacki at 427 Cheyne Walk. Four friends come, Jessop, Arkright, Taylor, and the narrator, Dodgson, and they share a sensible dinner. Afterward Carnacki settles into a big chair with his pipe and begins.
He never rushes, and he dislikes being asked about a case before he is ready. Once he begins, he spares no words. He gives rooms, distances, and the exact order of his fears. The friends sit in firelight, warm and safe, while a voice describes cold wind and slamming doors.
At the end, the friends press him with questions, and he explains what he can. Several times he admits he is stumped, and that honesty makes the rest easier to trust. The dinner frame turns every haunting into a story told by an honest voice.
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A butler warns Carnacki away from the Grey Room
The first case comes from a man called Anderson, whose old house holds a bedroom known as the Grey Room.
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Carnacki builds a defense of chalk, water, and light
On the second night, Carnacki rigs a camera and flashlight outside the Grey Room.
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A manor in Ireland drips with an old blood curse
The second tale takes Carnacki to the west of Ireland.
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A castle room whistles and no machine hears it
In the third tale, an American named Tassoc buys Iastrae Castle, near Galway.
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An old curse follows a daughter's courtship
The fourth tale opens with Carnacki bruised and bandaged, handing round photographs of a frightened girl.
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Carnacki hears knocks in his own family home
The fifth tale goes back to a younger Carnacki, living with his mother in a rose-covered cottage on the South Coast.
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A haunted dagger strikes in a locked chapel
The sixth tale sends Carnacki to Sir Alfred Jarnock's castle in South Kent.
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Carnacki is an open-minded skeptic
Across the six tales, Carnacki's habit is to test before believing.
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Fear, ritual, and voice give the tales their power
Fear is the real subject of these stories.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Carnacki A ghost finder who lives on Cheyne Walk and investigates hauntings with cameras, seals, and charms, doubting everything until the evidence is in.
- Dodgson The narrator, one of four friends who come to dinner and hear each case from Carnacki's big chair.
- Peter The old butler of the Grey Room house, loyal and frightened, who lies awake listening to its door slam.
- Wentworth Carnacki's friend, who inherits a lonely manor in Ireland and vows to prove its haunting is nonsense.
- Tassoc An American who buys Iastrae Castle and finds a whistling room, while trying to win a bet and a bride.
- Miss Hisgins The eldest daughter of an old Lancashire family, newly engaged and afraid of a legend about a horse.
- Beaumont A young naval officer engaged to Miss Hisgins, who is determined to protect her from whatever stalks the house.
- Sir Alfred Jarnock The nervous old master of a Kentish castle, who guards the only key to his family chapel and its dagger.
How it ends (spoiler)
The cases end in different ways. In the Grey Room, Carnacki finds the Anderson family's lost Luck Ring, a doorway for the monstrous hand, and melts it. At Gannington Manor, men using secret passages made the haunting. Iastrae Castle's room grew monstrous from a jester's burning, and it is torn down. The Hisgins horse is mostly the work of the cousin, Parsket, who dies shielding the girl from a real sound. Captain Tobias plays the ghost at the End House. Sir Alfred set a hidden trap with the dagger.
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What is Carnacki the Ghost Finder about?
It is a collection of six tales in which Carnacki, an occult detective, investigates hauntings in old houses, a castle, and a chapel. He tells each case to four friends after dinner, describing cameras, seals, and defensive rituals.
Who is Carnacki and who tells the stories?
Carnacki is a ghost finder who lives on Cheyne Walk in Chelsea. He tells his own cases to his friends Jessop, Arkright, Taylor, and the narrator, Dodgson, who also tells the dinner scenes around them.
What is the Electric Pentacle?
It is Carnacki's own protective device, a five-pointed star made of glowing vacuum tubes. He bases it on an old manuscript called the Sigsand and on an experiment with a medium inside an electric current.
Is Carnacki the Ghost Finder a true story, and when was it written?
The tales are fiction by William Hope Hodgson, written in the early twentieth century. Carnacki, his friends, and his cases are invented, though Hodgson sets them in a real London address and real British and Irish places.
Is Carnacki the Ghost Finder easy to read?
The tales are self-contained and share one reliable frame, a dinner and a fireside voice. Each case runs from setup to solution, so you can read them in any order and enjoy the suspense.
Verwijs naar deze uitgave
Hodgson, William Hope. Carnacki, the Ghost Finder. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/carnacki-the-ghost-finder.
Hodgson, W. H. (2026). Carnacki, the ghost finder. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/carnacki-the-ghost-finder (Original work published 1913)
Hodgson, William Hope. Carnacki, the Ghost Finder. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/carnacki-the-ghost-finder.
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title = {Carnacki, the Ghost Finder},
publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
year = {2026},
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note = {First published 1913}
}
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