The House on the Borderland and Other Mysterious Places: The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson, Volume 2

The House on the Borderland and Other Mysterious Places: The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson, Volume 2

by William Hope Hodgson
The House on the Borderland and Other Mysterious Places: The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson, Volume 2

The House on the Borderland and Other Mysterious Places: The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson, Volume 2

by William Hope Hodgson

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Overview

Available for the first time in trade paperback, the second of five volumes collecting the complete fiction of William Hope Hodgson, an influential early twentieth-century author of science fiction, horror, and the fantastic.

William Hope Hodgson was, like his contemporaries Algernon Blackwood and Arthur Machen, one of the most important, prolific, and influential fantasists of the early twentieth century. His dark and unsettling short stories and novels were shaped in large part by personal experience and his work evokes a disturbing sense of the amorphous and horrific unknown.

While his adventure fiction was very popular during his lifetime, the supernatural and cosmic horror he is most remembered for only became well known after his death, mainly due to the efforts of writers like H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith, who often praised his work and cited it as an influence on their own. By the latter half of the twentieth century, it was only his weird fiction that remained in print, and his vast catalog of non-supernatural stories was extremely hard to find.

Night Shade Books’s five-volume series presents all of Hodgson’s unique and timeless fiction. Each volume contains one of Hodgson's novels, along with a selection of thematically-linked short fiction, including a number of works reprinted for the first time since their original publication. The second of the five-volume set, The House on the Borderland and Other Mysterious Places, collects Hodgson’s mystery and suspense fiction, including those starring the occult detective Thomas Carnacki, and the titular novel The House on the Borderland, a seminal and influential work of early weird fiction.

The Complete Fiction of William Hope Hodgson is published by Night Shade Books in the following volumes:
The Boats of the “Glen Carrig” and Other Nautical Adventures
The House on the Borderland and Other Mysterious Places
The Ghost Pirates and Other Revenants of the Sea
The Night Land and Other Romances
The Dream of X and Other Fantastic Visions

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781597809214
Publisher: Night Shade
Publication date: 01/09/2018
Series: Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson , #2
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 496
Sales rank: 701,689
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

William Hope Hodgson was an early twentieth-century English author who produced a large and critically acclaimed body of short fiction and novels spanning several overlapping genres, including horror, fantastic fiction, and science fiction. Hodgson was killed in action in WWI in 1918, at the age of forty.

Table of Contents

Editor's Introductionix
The House on the Borderland1
Carnacki the Ghost-Finder
The Thing Invisible137
The Gateway of the Monster159
The House Among the Laurels177
The Whistling Room193
The Searcher of the End House209
The Horse of the Invisible233
The Haunted Jarvee255
The Find271
The Hog279
Other Tales of Mystery and Suspense
The Goddess of Death317
Terror of the Water-Tank329
Bullion343
The Mystery of the Water-Logged Ship353
The Ghosts of the Glen Doon369
Mr. Jock Danplank383
The Mystery of Captain Chappel401
The Home-Coming of Captain Dan417
Merciful Plunder433
The Haunting of the Lady Shannon445
The Heathen's Revenge457
A Note On The Texts465
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