Our 2024 Christmas ghost story double-bill concludes with the second part of William Hope Hodgson’s “The Horse of the Invisible”, from the casebooks of Carnacki, the Ghost Finder. This is our second Carnacki tale this year, and you can find “The Searcher of the End House” on your podcast feed of choice or on this very server.







This reading has been organised by good friend of the Good Friends, Mike Perceval-Maxwell (host of Mr Spike’s Bedtime Stories), taking place on our Discord server. Mike is joined by guest readers John Casey, Scott Dorward, Sarah Dovey, Anthony Lee-Dudley, Brian Murphy, Nic Rosenberg, and Sue Savage.







So load your shotguns, fire up the electric pentacle, and prepare to make the First and Last signs of the Saaamaaa Ritual.













“Silent Night”, performed by The St. Joseph’s Convent Choir, is in the public domain.







If you would like to read along at home, you can find “The Searcher of the End House” in William Hope Hodgson’s collection Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder, available on Project Gutenberg.







And if all this has put you in the mood for Christmas ghost stories, please check out our previous readings:









* “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens







* “The Canterville Ghost” by Oscar Wilde







* “The Viy” by Nikolai Gogol







* “Told After Supper” by Jerome K Jerome