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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'.

Cited by H.P. Lovecraft as `perhaps the greatest of all Mr. Hodgson's works', this tale of a deserted house in Ireland hints at a terrifying evil. At each turn of the page, horrors begin to unfold, monsters are revealed and new dimensions exposed.

Penguin Weird Fiction- a celebration of the very best of the weird, a store of novels and tales that for generations have delighted and horrified. 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 its 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 - more merciless and 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.

"The Ghost Pirates" by William Hope Hodgson is a terrifying maritime mystery that transports readers to the uncanny international of the excessive seas. The story takes vicinity onboard the ship "Mortzestus," in which a crew of sailors embarks on a perilous journey filled with mysterious encounters and unexplained happenings. As the sailors cruise through fog-shrouded waters, they're soon beset with the aid of peculiar occurrences and appearances of ghostly beings. Strange noises reverberate at some stage in the ship, and group participants vanish without a trace, producing an air of fear and discomfort. Amidst the rising anxiety and dread, the protagonist, Jessop, confronts the scary fact of malicious spirits inhabiting the vessel. As the group members face the horrors lurking in the shadows, they should work collectively to find out the fact behind the ghostly appearances and fight for their lives against otherworldly forces beyond their expertise. Hodgson expertly blends topics of horror, mystery, and maritime adventure to create a riveting tale that keeps readers on the brink of their seats until the stop. "The Ghost Pirates" is a demanding research of the macabre, as well as a haunting reminder of the persistent electricity of mystery.

This haunting novel is the private log of Captain Gault, a seasoned sea-captain whose vessels travel the world's oceans. Part diary, part journal, and part memoir, Gault's log captures the beauty and terror of life at sea, as well as the personal demons that haunt him. A classic of maritime literature, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the sea, adventure, and the mysteries of the human heart.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

"It was a place shunned by the people of the village, as it had been shunned by their fathers before them. There were many things said about it, and all were of evil. No one ever went near it, either by day or night. In the village it was a synonym of all that is unholy and dreadful."The three self-contained novels in William Hope Hodgson's "elemental" horror trilogy do not share central characters or locations, instead-through transcribed testimonies and "found" manuscripts-they weave narratives of growing dread and unease among sailors in peril, haunted house residents, and unknown monsters from the deep. Enjoy the unspoken horrors of The Boats of the "Glen Carrig," The House on the Borderland and The Ghost Pirates.Curated and edited by C.S.R. Calloway, Horror Historia brings together the most influential monsters and original gothic stories in one blood-curdling collection.

The story collection includes the following tales: ON THE BRIDGE THE SEA HORSES THE DERELICT MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED THE HOUSE OF PRAYER FROM THE TIDELESS SEA THE CAPTAIN OF THE ONION BOAT THE VOICE IN THE NIGHT THROUGH THE VORTEX OF A CYCLONE THE MYSTERY OF THE DERELICT THE SHAMRAKEN HOMEWARD-BOUNDER GREY SEAS ARE DREAMING OF MY DEATH Well, the last one is a poem, but there you go. This Large Print Edition is presented in easy-to-read 16 point type.

The House on the Borderland (1908) is a supernatural horror novel by British fantasist William Hope Hodgson. The novel is a hallucinatory account of a recluse's stay at a remote house, and his experiences of supernatural creatures and otherworldly dimensions. Plot summary On the third day of their fishing holiday to the remote Irish village of Kraighten, Tonnison and Berreggnog stumble upon the ruins of a strangely shaped house on a large lake. They discover the mouldering journal of the Recluse, an unidentified man who recorded his last days in the house before its destruction. The Recluse begins his journal with descriptions of how he acquired the house, along with his daily life with his sister and his faithful dog, Pepper. He started the diary to record the strange experiences and horrors occurring in and around the house. The Recluse relates a vision in which he travels to a remote and vast arena, "the Plain of Silence", surrounded by mountains with representations of mythological beast-gods, demons, and other "bestial horrors" on their slopes. In the center of the plain stands a house almost identical to his own, save that the house in the arena is much larger and appears to be made of a green jade-like substance. Along the way, he sees a huge, menacing humanoid with swine-like features. Shortly after his vision of the "arena," the Recluse is attacked by humanoid pig-like creatures that he names "the swine-things", which appear to come from the depths of a great chasm under the house. The struggle with these creatures lasts for several nights of increasing ferocity, but the man kills several of the creatures and drives them off. As he searches for the origin of the swine-things, the man finds a pit beyond the gardens where a river descends into the earth. There he finds a tunnel leading to the great chasm. A rock slide dams the water in the pit. The man is trapped, but Pepper rescues him. The house transports the Recluse to an unknown place called "the Sea of Sleep" where he briefly reunites with his lost love. Tonnison and Berreggnog must stop reading there as the house's collapse has destroyed much of the journal. Except for an enigmatic fragment, the book becomes unreadable between the passage describing "the Sea of Sleep" and a later entry titled "The noise in the night". They realise that the water from the dammed pit has overflowed to create the lake. They suppose that the destroyed section of the journal may have explained other mysteries about the house. As the Recluse's story continues, he notices that the passage of day and night has increased in speed, eventually blurring into a never-ending twilight. As he watches, his surroundings decay and collapse to dust. The dead world slowly grinds to a halt and the sun goes out after several million millennia. Once the world ends, the man floats through space, seeing angelic, human, and demonic forms passing before his eyes. Later, he finds himself back in his own study on Earth, with everything apparently returned to normality, with one exception: Pepper is dead. The malicious swine-beast from his earlier journeys to the "arena" has followed him back to his own dimension. The creature infects the man's new dog with a luminous fungal disease. Although the man shoots the suffering animal, he also contracts the disease. The manuscript ends with the man, by then partly covered by the fungal growth, locked (from the outside only) in his study as the creature comes through a trap door in the basement from the chasm under the house. As he ponders suicide to end his suffering, the creature tries to open the study door and the diary abruptly ends.... William Hope Hodgson (15 November 1877 - April 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...............

The story collection includes the following tales: ON THE BRIDGE THE SEA HORSES THE DERELICT MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED THE HOUSE OF PRAYER FROM THE TIDELESS SEA THE CAPTAIN OF THE ONION BOAT THE VOICE IN THE NIGHT THROUGH THE VORTEX OF A CYCLONE THE MYSTERY OF THE DERELICT THE SHAMRAKEN HOMEWARD-BOUNDER GREY SEAS ARE DREAMING OF MY DEATH Well, the last one is a poem, but there you go.

The novels and short stories of William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918), though almost entirely unknown during his lifetime, have become some of the most influential early works in fields of literature as diverse as fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Hodgson's earliest short fiction was inspired and deeply informed by his experiences at sea while a young man; his ambivalent attitude toward the ocean-mingled reverence, awe, fear, and hatred of it-is perhaps nowhere so starkly presented as in his "Sargasso Sea" stories, a series of fictions set in the shared world of the mythical Sargasso, a place of ancient derelicts, monstrous creatures, and hapless human castaways. Mesembria Press is proud to present this new collection of William Hope Hodgson's Sargasso Sea stories, which includes a complete set of notes designed to guide the interested reader through the obscure nautical terminology and stylistic nuances of Hodgson's writing. Includes: - From the Tideless Sea, Part I - From the Tideless Sea, Part II - The Mystery of the Derelict - The Thing in the Weeds - The Finding of the Graiken - The Call in the Dawn plus - Explanatory and critical notes

Feast your eyes on this luxurious hardback anthology of 18 classic tales of horror, presented with gilded page edges, patterned endpapers and a striking, gold-embossed cover design. The 18 terrifying tales in this collection are created by some of literature's finest writers of horror, including Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, and Bram Stoker. In stories filled with death, obsession, and paranoia, you will encounter hideous demons, abandoned castles, and gruesome discoveries. So settle down and prepare to be petrified. Tales include: - The Invisible Giant by Bram Stoker- The Tapestried Chamber by Sir Walter Scott- A Warning to the Curious by M. R. James- The Invisible Girl by Mary Shelley- A Dead Secret by Lafcadio Hearn- The Room in the Tower by E. F. Benson- The Whistling Room by William Hope Hodgson- The Horror at Red Hook by H. P. Lovecraft- The Ghost and the Bone-setter by Sheridan Le Fanu>This beautiful compendium is presented with gold gilded page-edges, patterned endpapers, ivory paper and a gold-embossed cover design, making it a wonderful gift or collectible for any horror lover. ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Gilded Classics presents luxury gift editions of classic works, printed on opulent ivory paper, featuring hardcover Wibalin binding, foil-embossed cover designs, beautifully designed end-papers and gilded page edges. These make perfectible collectibles for bibliophiles and lovers of classic literature.

"The Night Land" is a dystopian science fiction novel written by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912. Set in a far-distant future where the sun has died, the narrative follows an unnamed protagonist on a perilous journey through a desolate, post-apocalyptic Earth. As the last remnants of humanity survive in isolated redoubts, they face constant threats from monstrous creatures and supernatural forces that roam the dark, inhospitable landscape. Hodgson's vivid and imaginative prose creates a haunting and atmospheric world, filled with eerie landscapes, terrifying creatures, and a persistent sense of impending doom. Through the protagonist's quest to reunite with his beloved in the oppressive darkness, "The Night Land" explores themes of love, perseverance, and the resilience of the human spirit in the face of unimaginable adversity.

"The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'" is a novel written by William Hope Hodgson. It falls within the genre of weird fiction and supernatural horror. The story is known for its eerie and mysterious atmosphere, as well as its exploration of the unknown and otherworldly elements.

"The Ghost Pirates" is a classic supernatural horror novel by William Hope Hodgson, published in 1909. The story follows a young sailor named Jessop who joins the crew of the ship Mortzestus, unaware of its haunted reputation. As the voyage progresses, the crew experiences terrifying and unexplained events, including strange apparitions and an oppressive sense of dread. The novel explores the psychological toll of fear and isolation as the crew confronts malevolent supernatural forces on board, making it a seminal work in early 20th-century horror literature.

""The House on the Borderland"" is a mesmerizing and unsettling novel by William Hope Hodgson, celebrated for its unique blend of supernatural horror and cosmic terror. The story centers around a recluse who lives in a remote house on the edge of an otherworldly abyss. As he uncovers an ancient manuscript, he begins to experience nightmarish visions and encounters grotesque, otherworldly creatures.Hodgson's narrative is a journey into the surreal and the unknown, as the protagonist grapples with forces beyond human comprehension. The novel's eerie and atmospheric writing delves into themes of time, space, and the fragility of human existence, creating an unsettling and hypnotic reading experience. ""The House on the Borderland"" is a masterpiece of early 20th-century weird fiction, captivating readers with its mind-bending horror and the sense of cosmic dread it evokes, making it a seminal work in the genre.

Two friends on a fishing trip discover a manuscript that chronicles a tale of cosmic horror in the ruins of an oddly shaped house at the edge of an abyss in a remote Irish landscape. The manuscript describes the apparent descent into madness of its author, a recluse who, according to his strange account, witnesses the destruction of the solar system and time itself. The House on the Borderland is a singular work that transcends Gothic-style psychological haunting to introduce a modern, evocative blend of horror, science fiction, and fantasy. This Warbler Classics edition includes the first-edition annotations and a detailed biographical timeline.

Written in a style composed of strange archaisms which fuel the weird sense of disorientation, this cult classic has won the admiration of writers from Brian Aldiss to C S Lewis, who wrote: 'The Night Land gives, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before.'

Thomas Carnacki is a most unusual detective. Operating in London at the turn of the Twentieth Century, Carnacki is an Occult Detective, investigating the paranormal and bringing to an end hauntings and spectral manifestations through the use of both the most modern science and traditional folklore. This edition contains all Nine of the Extraordinary Cases written for Carnacki by his creator, Wiliam Hope Hodgson The Gateway of the Monster The House Among the Laurels The Whistling Room The Horse of the Invisible The Searcher of the End House The Thing Invisible The Hog The Haunted Jarvee The Find

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

The Night Land is a classic horror novel by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912. As a work of fantasy it belongs to the Dying Earth subgenre. Hodgson also published a much shorter version of the novel, entitled The Dream of X (1912). The Night Land was revived in paperback by Ballantine Books, which republished the work in two parts as the 49th and 50th volumes of its Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in July 1972.

The Ghost Pirates is a novel by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1909. The economic style of writing has led horror writer Robert Weinberg to describe The Ghost Pirates as "one of the finest examples of the tightly written novel ever published. In it, Hodgson never describes in any remarkable details the ghosts - if this is indeed what they are, since their true nature is left ambiguous - he merely reports on their gradual commandeering of the ship.

The House on the Borderland (1908) is a supernatural horror novel by British fantasist William Hope Hodgson. The novel is a hallucinatory account of a recluse's stay at a remote house, and his experiences of supernatural creatures and otherworldly dimensions. American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft listed The House on the Borderland and other works by Hodgson among his greatest influences, [1] and Terry Pratchett has called the novel "the Big Bang in my private universe as a science fiction and fantasy reader and, later, writer

Hodgson, in the company of Algernon Blackwood, Bram Stoker, H.P. Lovecraft, M.R. James, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, Arthur Conan Doyle and many other distinguished authors of the late Victorian era, created the foundations of the modern short story, the weird, the dark and the delightful, the supernatural, the fantastic and the imaginative.

The Night Land qualifies as science fiction for its time because when the book first appeared in 1912, we didn't know the energy source for stars. Does that make it fantasy? Does that make it horror? It's certainly a dystopian novel of a dying earth. It's also incredibly inventive. A man from the 17th century loses the love of her life, and during his mourning process, he gets a vision of a far future where he and his lover will be reunited, but that future is a strange one where the sun has gone dark, and people live in a giant metal pyramid known as the Last Redoubt and fight with the creatures who live outside in the dark. The hero establishes a mental connection, or psychic link, with the reincarnation of his lover and finds that she is not in the Last Redoubt, but in a forgotten place known as the Lesser Redoubt. He sets off into the darkness to find her... This Large Print Edition is presented in easy-to-read 16 point type.

One of the strangest visions ever published in science fiction or fantasy is presented. The Sun has gone out: the Earth is lit only by the glow of residual vulcanism. The last few millions of the human race are gathered together in a gigantic metal pyramid, the Last Redoubt, probably the first arcology in literature, under siege from unknown forces and Powers outside in the dark. These are held back by a Circle of energy, known as the "air clog," powered from the Earth's internal energy. For millennia, vast living shapes - the Watchers - have waited in the darkness near the pyramid: it is thought they are waiting for the inevitable time when the Circle's power finally weakens and dies. Other living things have been seen in the darkness beyond, some of unknown origins, and others that may once have been human

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

The Night Land was revived in paperback by Ballantine Books, which republished the work in two parts as the 49th and 50th volumes of its Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in July 1972. H. P. Lovecraft's essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature" describes the novel as "one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written". Clark Ashton Smith wrote of it that "In all literature, there are few works so sheerly remarkable, so purely creative, as The Night Land. Whatever faults this book may possess, however inordinate its length may seem, it impresses the reader as being the ultimate saga of a perishing cosmos, the last epic of a world beleaguered by eternal night and by the unvisageable spawn of darkness. Only a great poet could have conceived and written this story; and it is perhaps not illegitimate to wonder how much of actual prophecy may have been mingled with the poesy."... Plot summary The beginning of the book establishes the framework in which a 17th-century gentleman, mourning the death of his beloved, Lady Mirdath, is given a vision of a far-distant future where their souls will be re-united, and sees the world of that time through the eyes of a future incarnation. The language and style used are intended to resemble that of the 17th century, though the prose has features characteristic of no period whatsoever: the almost-complete lack of dialogue and proper names, for example. Critic Ian Bell has suggested that John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost" (1667) is probably a partial literary inspiration for Hodgson's novel, especially due to the hellish visions of sombre intensity which mark both works, and other similarities including the use of massive structures (the Temple of Pandemonium in Milton and the Last Redoubt in The Night Land).[2] Once into the book, the 17th century framing is mostly inconsequential. Instead, the story focuses on the future. The Sun has gone out and the Earth is lit only by the glow of residual vulcanism. The last few millions of the human race are gathered together in a gigantic metal pyramid, nearly eight miles high - the Last Redoubt, under siege from unknown forces and Powers outside in the dark. These are held back by a shield known as the "air clog", powered from a subterranean energy source called the "Earth Current". For millennia, vast living shapes-the Watchers-have waited in the darkness near the pyramid. It is thought they are waiting for the inevitable time when the Circle's power finally weakens and dies. Other living things have been seen in the darkness beyond, some of unknown origins, and others that may once have been human.To leave the protection of the Circle means almost certain death, or worse an ultimate destruction of the soul. As the story commences, the narrator establishes mind contact with an inhabitant of another, forgotten Lesser Redoubt. First one expedition sets off to succour the inhabitants of the Lesser Redoubt, whose own Earth Current has been exhausted, only to meet with disaster. After that, the narrator sets off alone into the darkness to find the girl he has made contact with, knowing now that she is the reincarnation of his past love. At the conclusion of the adventure, the narrative does not return to the framework story, instead ending with the homecoming of the couple and his inauguration into the ranks of their most honoured heroes.................... William Hope Hodgson (15 November 1877 - April 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. Hodgson used his experiences at sea to lend authentic detail to his short horror stories, many of which are set on the ocean, including his series of linked tales forming the "Sargasso Sea Stories"..............

The Ghost Pirates is a novel by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1909. The economic style of writing has led horror writer Robert Weinberg to describe The Ghost Pirates as "one of the finest examples of the tightly written novel ever published."[citation needed] In it, Hodgson never describes in any remarkable details the ghosts - if this is indeed what they are, since their true nature is left ambiguous - he merely reports on their gradual commandeering of the ship. "The Ghost Pirates . . . is a powerful account of a doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils (of quasi-human aspect, and perhaps the spirits of bygone buccaneers) that besiege it and finally drag it down to an unknown fate. With its command of maritime knowledge, and its clever selection of hints and incidents suggestive of latent horrors in nature, this book at times reaches enviable peaks of power.