Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder

{{Short description|1913 collection of short stories by William Hope Hodgson}}

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| name = Carnacki the Ghost-Finder

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| image = Carnacki.jpg

| caption = Dust-jacket for Carnacki the Ghost-Finder (1947), illustrated by Frank Utpatel

| author = William Hope Hodgson

| illustrator = Florence Briscoe (1910 serial)

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| country = United Kingdom

| series = Carnacki

| genre = Supernatural fiction, detective fiction

| publisher = Eveleigh Nash (1913), Mycroft & Moran (1947)

| pub_date = 1913, expanded 1947

| media_type = Print (hardcover)

| pages = 288, 241

| oclc = 13117415

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Carnacki the Ghost-Finder is a collection of occult detective short stories by English writer William Hope Hodgson, featuring the titular protagonist. It was first published in 1913 by the English publisher Eveleigh Nash. In 1947, a new edition of 3,050 copies was published by Mycroft & Moran and included three additional stories (the last three listed below). In 1951 Ellery Queen covered the Mycroft & Moran version as No. 53 in Queen's Quorum: A History of the Detective-Crime Short Story As Revealed by the 100 Most Important Books Published in this Field Since 1845.{{cite book|author=Ellery Queen|title=Queen's Quorum: A History of the Detective-crime Short Story as Revealed in the 106 Most Important Books Published in this Field Since 1845|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XVxrF0zbuo4C&pg=PA64|year=1951|publisher=Biblo & Tannen Publishers|isbn=978-0-8196-0229-9|page=64}}

For several decades subsequent to the Mycroft and Moran edition, Carnacki collections routinely if not always contained all nine stories. Project Gutenberg Ebook #10832 (2004) contains only the first six stories, however, and arranges them in sequence of their 1910 and 1912 magazine publication. Some other publications follow Project Gutenberg, perhaps using its text.