About the book: 2009 / Strange things happen in good old England. All the sheets are mysteriously torn off the bed and the door slams for no reason, blood drips from the ceiling or a chilling whistle is heard. What is this, someone’s cruel joke or the tricks of otherworldly forces? Only detective Thomas Carnacchi, a professional ghost hunter, can understand all this. William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) is a famous British author, whose novels and stories in the genres of mysticism, horror and fantasy gained wide popularity among readers during the writer’s lifetime.