William Hope Hodgson
1877–1918
Biography
William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) was an English writer of horror, fantasy and science fiction. He was born in Essex and went to sea as a young man, and the years he spent on merchant ships gave his stories a grounding in the work and dangers of the sailor's life. He also wrote essays and poems, took up photography and attracted notice as a bodybuilder, and in the course of a short life he tried a wide range of forms.
Much of his fiction is built on the sea. His linked Sargasso Sea stories follow vessels caught in the weed-choked waters of the Atlantic, where crews face terrors that seem to come from beyond nature. His novels, including The House on the Borderland (1908) and The Night Land (1912), carry those themes further, toward cosmic horror, vast spans of time and the fate of the human race. His reputation grew largely after his death, as later readers came to value the strangeness and ambition of his work. He was killed in action during the First World War in April 1918, at about forty years old.
The House on the Borderland is the book on this site. Its narrator tells of a stay at a lonely old house and of the strange events that follow, which carry him out of the familiar world into visions of the universe on a scale far beyond human experience. It is one of his best-known novels, and it shows the cosmic ambition that runs from the sea stories through to The Night Land.
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Books
The House on the Borderland
by William Hope Hodgson
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.
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