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The Hog

William Hope Hodgson

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Weird Tales, January 1947
Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder
THE HOG
by William Hope Hodgson

16,800 Words

52 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 4, 2011

About the author

William Hope Hodgson was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction, and science fiction. Early in his writing career he dedicated effort to poetry, although few of his poems were published during his lifetime. He also attracted some notice as a photographer and achieved some renown as a bodybuilder. Hodgson served with the British Army durng World War One. He died, at age 40, at Ypres, killed by German artillery fire.

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Tom

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October 26, 2023

4.25⭐

André Prado

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March 30, 2023

Tratamento extremamente objetivo e "científico" do sobrenatural aplaca todo o assombro para mim

The Local Spooky Hermit

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March 20, 2023

Terrible Book Club read this in full. In an episode I listened twice, one of those times I was at work, lord I was almost in TEARS. Find it. its so funny. It's the reason I'm rating it 5 stars for the sound effects and just them cracking jokes and all.
(Heres a bit of it dumbed down by a tired mind) Okay so some dude complains to a ghost finder guy 1: "i can't sleep all I hear is grunting and pigs 24/7."
Guy 2 (the ghost finder): "no prob come alone to my house, now put on this rubber suit."
so 2 men in a closed off room in rubber suits with rainbow glowing wires all on the floor. Kinky.
Guy 1: gets on all fours and starts grunting like a pig.
Guy 2: damn is that a giant pig in the distance?
THE HOG: 👋👁👄👁
Guy 1: *squeals loudly*
Guy 2: You a furry or somethin?
THE HOG: * getting closer* 👁👄👁
Guy 1: 🐖 *pig life yo*
Guy 2: my rainbow wires are getting funky...this is too hard.. f it.. ima shoot u if you don't stop.
THE HOG: *HEAVY BREATHING* 👁👄👁

5-stars campy-horror classicy

Terrible Book Club

137 reviews39 followers

December 11, 2022

It's another episode of Terrible Antique Book Freaks! D & Ken from Antiques Freaks join us for the final Carnacki tale (for real this time - there are absolutely no more Carnacki stories written by Hodgson, so this is it!)

We use Eye of Argon rules to read the entirety of The Hog, complete with backing music and sound effects by Chris. Have your Carnacki bingo cards at the ready!

Etain

369 reviews1 follower

July 26, 2023

My favorite Carnacki story I think, certainly the scariest though some of the descriptions of how the circles confused me quite a bit but I'd put that more down to how language has changed over the years rather than poor writing. I also think it's very funny to end the last ever Carnacki story like "yeah so there's probably a war between godlike entities and demonic entities happening on earth but I'm too tired to tell you about it, bye!"

Addie Gardner

164 reviews14 followers

January 20, 2018

A very weird and confusing book. To me it seemed like it was repeating phrases and pretty much the same wording over and over. Very hard to follow and not very scary.