1) Fictional inventor 
Thomas Carnacki is a fictional occult detective created by English fantasy writer William Hope Hodgson. Carnacki was the protagonist of a series of six short stories published between 1910 and 1912 in The Idler magazine and The New Magazine. These stories were printed together as Carnacki the Ghost-Finder in 1913. A 1948 Arkham House edition of Ca...