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The House on the Borderland

William Hope Hodgson (1877 &ndash; 1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction and science fiction.

From the beasts of the pit to the endless terror of the void 
 
A manuscript is found: filled with small, precise writing and smelling of pit-water, it tells the story of an old recluse and his strange home &ndash; and its even stranger, jade-green double, seen by the recluse on an otherworldly plain where gigantic gods and monsters roam. 
 
Soon his more earthly home is no less terrible than this bizarre vision, as swine-like creatures boil from a cavern beneath the ground and besiege it. But a still greater horror will face the recluse &ndash; more inexorable, merciless and awful than any creature that can be fought or killed.

William Hope Hodgson

A manuscript is found. Filled with small, precise writing and smelling of pit-water, it tells the story of an old recluse and his strange home – and it’s even stranger, jade-green double, seen by that old man on an otherworldly plain where gigantic gods and monsters roam. Soon his earthly abode is no less terrible than this strange vision, as swine-like creatures boil from a cavern beneath the ground and besiege it. But a still greater horror will face the recluse, one more awful than any creature that can be fought or killed. 
 
The House on the Borderland, William Hope Hodgson’s great masterpiece of cosmic fear, is an extraordinary novel that defied all accepted conventions of horror writing, forging in an instant a new, weird direction for the form.

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