![]() It’s remarkable in many ways for the sheer vision. This is a book that reads well despite it passing it’s 101st birthday recently. The pace and tension in the first part of the book are remarkable given it’s age. What we are reading here is nothing less than the evolution of the Horror novel. Lovecraft but at the same time the roots of this book in the Gothic tradition are also clear. It’s clear to see how this vision of cosmic horror amidst distant nebulae influenced the likes of H.P. In the first a fairly straight forward Gothic horror with strange swine faced monsters but this eventually mutates into the bizarre head trip through space as the narrator explains how he travelled through time and space, literally to the ends of the earth. And so follows a book of two distinct part. The manuscript’s author reveal the incidents leading up to the houses ruination. ![]() The book, for the most part, takes the form of a manuscript found in the ruins of an ancient house. His literary legacy is large and varied but The House On The Borderland is generally acknowledged as one of his finest works. ![]() Willam Hope Hodgson was a remarkable character who was one of the fathers of the Weird Tales generation of the early 20th Century. ![]()
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