SOURCES:
"The Horse of the Invisible" by William Hope Hodgson (The Idler, April, 1910 )

DESCRIPTION: " 'I dare say we waited quite half a minute and then came the further restless clumping of a great hoof. Immediately afterward the sounds came right on as if some invisible thing passed through the closed door and the ponderous tread was upon us. We jumped, each of us, to our side of the passage aud I know that I spread myself stiff against the wall. The clungk clunck, clungk clunck, of the great hoof falls passed right between us and slowly and with deadly deliberateness, down the passage. I heard them through a haze of blood-beats in my ears and temples and my body was extraordinarily rigid and pringling and I was horribly breathless. I stood for a little time like this, my head turned so that I could see up the passage. I was conscious only that there was a hideous danger abroad. " ("The Horse of the Invisible" by William Hope Hodson)

NOTES: The Horse is of course invisible but like any ghost visits and terrifies. It's victims are the firstborn girls in the Hisgin family.

HISTORY: Obviously inspired by the Hound of the Baskerville, the Horse of the Invisible is one of those Carnacki stories I don't really care for since the detective ends it with "Well, it might have been real." This kind of wishy-washy detection lacks closure.
 
 

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