The House on the Borderland [NOOK Book]

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Classic Haunted House Novel in the Lovecraft Tradition More terrifying than Steven King, more unsettling than Peter Straub, <I>The House on the Borderland</I> is the ultimate haunted house story. Horror grandmaster H. P. Lovecraft hailed it as "something unique in literature ... everywhere there is manifest the author's power to suggest vague, ambushed horrors in natural scenery ... a classic of the first water." Editor/Writer/publisher Donald A. Wollheim called it "a classic no one who enjoys ...
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Overview

Classic Haunted House Novel in the Lovecraft Tradition More terrifying than Steven King, more unsettling than Peter Straub, <I>The House on the Borderland</I> is the ultimate haunted house story. Horror grandmaster H. P. Lovecraft hailed it as "something unique in literature ... everywhere there is manifest the author's power to suggest vague, ambushed horrors in natural scenery ... a classic of the first water." Editor/Writer/publisher Donald A. Wollheim called it "a classic no one who enjoys imaginative literature should ignore." The House on the Borderland's atmosphere of ineluctable skin--crawling suspense, created by William Hope Hodgson in his too-short career as an author of supernatural horror, is unparalleled. The narrator and his friend, on a fishing trip in a desolate part of Ireland, come upon a ruinous and deserted house set in an unmapped wilderness of forest and stone. Neither speaks the local language, and so are unwarned about the sinister house--or rather, what is left of a house, on the edge of an apparently bottomless chasm. With foreboding, they try to ignore the isolation and unsettling noises from the pit and the surrounding wood. They explore the ruins, and discover there a moldering book, which portrays--but doesn't explain--the unseen life of the brooding house and the ultimate fate of its vanished inhabitants. Hodgson's mastery of mood setting, coupled with his ability to transform an ordinary fishing trip into a journey through the abysses of time, space and Utter Darkness, place <I>The House on the Borderland</I> in a category of its own in the literature of horror.
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  • BN ID: 2940000077177
  • Publisher: Renaissance E Books
  • Publication date: 1/1/2001
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 347,543
  • File size: 383 KB

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 3, 2004

    Cccclassic

    Though quite an odd read there are many memorable scenes. This is truely a masterpiece!! Sometimes a bit slow moving, but it's worth sticking to. You will not be disapointed.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 5, 2006

    fine classic of the outre

    This is clearly Hodgson's masterpiece with savage swine-things who have some curious affinity for the titular house menacing our heroes. Hodgson's choice to reveal enough to whet our appetites for the strange occurrences while leaving just enough for our imaginations to run wild is a good one. The atmosphere and pacing are almost claustrophobic as we come quietly but breathtakingly upon a vision of the far future. Too bad most modern authors lack Hodgson's ability to mix the outre with the mundane just enough to make us dread both while hoping to return to the latter.

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  • Posted June 15, 2012

    Great read

    This is, overall, a great book. There are some slight errors in this eBook version but it shouldn't hinder comprehension whatsoever.

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