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House on the Borderland

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‘A few minutes, it seemed, and I had risen above the great mountains – floating, alone, afar in the redness. At a tremendous distance below, the arena showed, dimly; with the mighty House looking no larger than a tiny spot of green. The Swine-thing was no longer visible.’

In the damp and neglected heart of a ruin in the wilds of the west of Ireland, a manuscript is discovered entitled The House on the Borderland. Penned by an enigmatic Recluse, the contents spin an account of an uncanny and isolated existence, which unfolds into a hallucinatory and mind-wracking journey into cosmic revelations and encounters with beasts and beings without name. For the Recluse seems to have discovered another land and in it another House; a jade-green double of his own in a realm in which the bounds of reality are untethered.

First published in 1908, this masterpiece of Horror and the uncanny was a direct influence on the imagination of H P Lovecraft and was described by Terry Pratchett as ‘the Big Bang in my private universe as a science fiction and fantasy reader and, later, writer’.

Additional information

ISBN

9780712354646

Dimensions

130 x 190 mm

Book Type

Paperback / softback

Author

William Hope Hodgson

Author Bio

William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was a key figure in British weird fiction, renowned for a huge body of work that consisted of essays, short fiction and novels that often fused together the horror, fantastic fiction and science fiction genres. Hodgson is remembered chiefly for his nautical horror stories and for his occult detective, Carnacki the Ghost-finder. Following his death near Ypres during the First World War, his stories continued to be published posthumously throughout the twentieth century.

Number of Pages

320

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