The Ghost Loser

The Ghost Loser (2022)

Gibbon Moon Books

Clumsy Carnacki desperately wants to be an occult detective. He is the incompetent son of the great Thomas Carnacki and hopes to follow in his father's footsteps, but he keeps getting everything wrong.

His blunders often lead him into situations that would defeat a better man but somehow Clumsy always muddles through. Until the day he bites off more ectoplasm than he can plausibly chew...

These stories of Clumsy Carnacki are both a genuine tribute to the original tales of William Hope Hodgson and an ironic variation on them in postmodern mode. 

Contents:

The Ghastly Club Foot * The Vampiric Tramp * The School for High Fliers * In His Footsteps * The Stork Reality

The World Beyond the Stairwell

The World Beyond the Stairwell (2002)

Gibbon Moon Books

"'The World Beyond the Stairwell' may well be the finest tribute (with love) to Hodgson ever written." — John Clute.

First published twenty years ago as part of a limited edition hardback collection from Sarob Press, the novella THE WORLD BEYOND THE STAIRWELL is finally available as a standalone paperback and ebook. It is simultaneously a tribute to Hodgson and Borges, with a bit of Lovercraft thrown in for good/bad measure.

"Enter the weird and original world of Rhys Hughes, an eerie nightmare place of monsters, demons, devils and other strange horrors. If you haven’t read anything by this author previously, then get ready for a truly terrific helter-skelter ride of the imagination." — Jeff VanderMeer.