Name: The House on the Borderland
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Author: Hodgson, William Hope ; Schweitzer, Darrell
ISBN: 9781479464517

Type

Physical Book

Author

William Hope Hodgson

Introduction by

Darrell Schweitzer

Publisher

Wildside Press

Language

English

Pages

140

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm

Weight

0.38 kg.

ISBN13

9781479464517

Synopsis "The House on the Borderland"

"The House on the Borderland (1908)-perhaps the greatest of all Mr. Hodgson's works-tells of a lonely and evilly regarded house in Ireland which forms a focus for hideous otherworld forces and sustains a siege by blasphemous hybrid anomalies from a hidden abyss below. The wanderings of the Narrator's spirit through limitless light-years of cosmic space and Kalpas of eternity, and its witnessing of the solar system's final destruction, constitute something almost unique in standard literature. And everywhere there is manifest the author's power to suggest vague, ambushed horrors in natural scenery." -H.P. LovecraftIncludes an introduction by critic Darrell Schweitzer.

William Hope Hodgson

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He was born in 1875, son of a clergyman from Essex, and from an early age he went to sea as a crew member on merchant ships. However, Hodgson detested that life, and as soon as he had the chance, he left it to engage in other work and to write stories full of mystery, terror, and adventure, many of them set at sea, a dangerous sea filled with monstrous entities and abandoned ships. Although Hodgson's work remained forgotten for years due to his early death in France during World War I, cutting short his literary career, authors such as H.P. Lovecraft, who spoke enthusiastically about his supernatural novel The House on the Borderland (in this same collection), or Clark Ashton Smith claimed him as a master (along with Ambrose Bierce and others) of the emerging American school of Supernatural Horror.

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