Barry Graham
Scottish author and journalist based in Portland, OR. Noir, horror, politics, culture, class issues, urbanism, Zen.
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I’ve been rereading William Hope Hodgson’s collection of stories Carnacki the Ghost-Finder.
The book was published in 1913. I first read it in paperback form in a rat-infested coldwater tenement in Maryhill, Glasgow. That building was demolished decades ago. Now I’m reading the book on a Kindle in an air-conditioned house in the Sonoran Desert, a place that would kill me but for the technology that keeps the heat at bay.
It occurs to me that the Kindle, and the air-conditioning, would both seem to Hodgson to be more fantastic - more supernatural - than the most fanciful of his stories.
