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** In one of the stories involving a genuine ab-natural threat, Carnacki admits at one point that he was "cowed by the butt-headed brutality of that Force," which is hard not to read as juvenile now.
--->''I can put it no other way.''


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* PerfectlyCromulentWord: Carnacki sometimes uses the term "ab-natural" in place of "supernatural"; it comes from a Latin preposition meaning "away from" or "out of" (as in "abnormal").
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** In "The Horse Of The Invisible", Carnacki says ""Beaumont [[MisterSeahorse knocked me up]] about midday".

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** In "The Horse Of The Invisible", Carnacki says ""Beaumont "Beaumont [[MisterSeahorse knocked me up]] about midday".
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Some stories leave details like this - for example, in ''The Horse Of The Invisible'', [[spoiler: some elements of the haunting are impossible to prove as genuine or faked, since the hoaxer is dead and the ghost turned out to be real anyway.]]

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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Some stories leave details like this - for example, in ''The "The Horse Of The Invisible'', Invisible", [[spoiler: some elements of the haunting are impossible to prove as genuine or faked, since the hoaxer is dead and the ghost turned out to be real anyway.]]

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* HaveAGayOldTime: At tense moments in his investigations, Carnacki often finds himself in a state of "funk". As a non-sexual example mixed with SeparatedByACommonLanguage, Americans may be caught off-guard by his references to his "flashlight", by which he means the hand-held powder flash-wands used by photographers of the era.

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At tense moments in his investigations, Carnacki often finds himself in a state of "funk". "funk".
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** In "The Horse Of The Invisible", Carnacki says ""Beaumont [[MisterSeahorse knocked me up]] about midday".
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* AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder: The narrator asks if the ghost in "The Searcher Of The End House" appears as a child to some people and a woman to others but Carnacki is pretty sure they're two different ghosts.


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* MagicalAbortion: The Sigsand manuscript says that stillborn babies are caused by hags snatching the child's soul back. It's thought that the child ghost in "The Searcher Of The End House" is the result of this.

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