The House on the Borderland - Softcover

Hodgson, William Hope

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1533388237 ISBN 13: 9781533388230

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

Hodgson wrote a trilogy consisting of Date 1965 Modern Warfare, The House on the Borderland, and The Ghost Pirates. The setting for The House on the Borderland is an ancient house in a lonely part of Ireland, where an old man lives alone with his sister and his pets. His diary is found and it tells the story of a huge cavern below the house filled with white pig like monsters

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Review

This classic novel of the weird supernatural, first published in 1908, was an important influence on H. P. Lovecraft. In the ruins of an ancient stone house in Ireland is found the diary of an elderly man who lived alone with his sister and their pets, and who longed for his lost love. The diary tells of how the man explores a cyclopean cavern beneath the house and fights off swarms of white pig-like monsters pouring up from below. Then, in a visionary sequence, he breaks through to an alternate space-time dimension and sees a doppelganger of his house on a vast desolate plain. The prose is hokey at times, but the strange mood evoked by the other-dimensional setting is powerful indeed. As acclaimed horror writer T. E. D. Klein says, "Never has a book so hauntingly conveyed a sense of terrible loneliness and isolation."

About the Author

An English author, Hodgson is famous for his contribution to the genre of horror and fantastic fiction. His writings are reflective of his power of expression. He was also a poet, photographer and a sailor.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1533388237
• ISBN 13: 9781533388230
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 150
• Editor: Edibooks