The Lost Valley

I picked up this copy of the great William Hope Hodgson’s Carnacki the Ghost Finder a few years ago in Charlie Byrne’s bookshop in Galway. I'm only just getting around to it now. Considering Hodgson’s status as one of THE finest weird tales writers (his weird sea stories are second to none, with ‘ The Voice In The Night ’ and ‘ The Derelict ’ being among my all-time faves, and ‘The House On The Borderland ‘being a genre classic, if one I find a bit of a stiff read myself) I found Carnacki somewhat disappointing.

Welcome to The Lost Valley Blog! As a kind of trial inaugural post, I present to you a review from several years ago (2018 in fact) of a very odd lost world novel by Dennis Wheatley. This was originally written when I was living in rural Essex, in a cottage on a marsh, with a small woods outside my door, and greater-spotted woodpeckers greeting me most mornings. Ah, good times indeed. Anyway, with that said, let's travel back in time ...