The House on the Borderland with Original Foreword by Jonathan Maberry: Annotated Version - Softcover

Hodgson, William Hope

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1680576526 ISBN 13: 9781680576528

Publisher: WordFire Press LLC, 2024

Synopsis

An award-winning sci-fi author, editor, software quality engineer, and entrepreneur, Jenn Fir (pen name of Heather Jones) has been immersed in ideas, product development, and storytelling for over fifteen years. She holds a BS in Business Administration and Management Information Systems from the New York Institute of Technology and an MA in Publishing from Western Colorado University’s Graduate Program in Creative Writing.

She has edited two books. The first is a new release of the legendary weird sci-fi story The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson (WordFire Press, July 2024), which bears a brand-new foreword penned by New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry. Jenn’s second edited work is an original short story anthology, Feisty Felines and Other Fantastical Familiars (WordFire Press, July 2024), which was co-created, curated, and published by Jenn and her Publishing MA cohort at Western Colorado University.

As an author, she has won five awards for her five submissions to the Writers of the Future contest, one of the world’s most challenging short story contests. She has also written three novels and has several more in the hopper.

Jenn divides her time between California, Oregon, and the driver’s seat of her pickup truck, usually on I-5, which is an excellent stretch of highway for thinking up new stories.

About this title

About the Authors

William Hope Hodgson was an English poet, novelist, and short story writer. Born in 1877 to a large family that lost three out of twelve children and moved eleven times in 21 years, his writing career was deeply influenced by these losses and constantly shifting settings, including Ardrahan, Ireland, which would later play host to his most famous story, The House on the Borderland. After dropping out of school to become a sailor at the age of thirteen, his early years were spent at sea, imbuing his writing with a unique blend of eerie atmosphere and the nautical realism for which he would become known. The son of an Anglican priest, Hodgson's upbringing also introduced a transcendental element to his narratives, masterfully exploring the unknown, the strange, and the supernatural. His first published work was a short story titled "The Goddess of Death," published in 1904. His first novel, The Boats of "Glen Carrig," followed in 1907. The House on the Borderland was published in 1908, a story that so profoundly induced the dual terror and wonder of the barely glimpsed unknown beyond the thin veil of reality that it inspired H.P. Lovecraft's writing career. Unsurprisingly, The House on the Borderland went on to become Hodgson's most famous work, the author himself named one of the "founding fathers of weird fiction." Tragically, Hodgson's promising literary trajectory was cut short when he was killed in action by a direct artillery impact during World War I in 1918. However, his legacy persists through an incredibly influential body of work, with The House on the Borderland persisting as a revered touchstone within the genre of weird and speculative fiction.

Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times bestselling author, 5-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, anthology editor, and comic book writer. His vampire apocalypse book series, V-WARS, was a Netflix original series. He writes in multiple genres including suspense, thriller, horror, science fiction, fantasy, and action; and he writes for adults, teens and middle grade. His works include the Joe Ledger thrillers, Ink, Glimpse, the Rot & Ruin series, the Dead of Night series, The Wolfman, X-Files Origins: Devil's Advocate, Mars One, and many others. Several of his works are in development for film and TV. He is the editor of high-profile anthologies including The X-Files, Aliens: Bug Hunt, Out of Tune, New Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Baker Street Irregulars, Nights of the Living Dead, and others. His comics include Black Panther: DoomWar, The Punisher: Naked Kills and Bad Blood. His Rot & Ruin young adult novel was adapted into the #1 comic on Webtoon, and is being developed for film by Alcon Entertainment. He is a board member of the Horror Writers Association, the president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, and the editor of Weird Tales Magazine. He lives in San Diego, California. Find him online at www.jonathanmaberry.com

Edition details

• Publisher: WordFire Press LLC
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1680576526
• ISBN 13: 9781680576528
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196
• Editor: Jones Heather