The House on the Borderland (Heathen Edition)

William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was an English author best known for The Night Land (1912) and this his second novel The House on the Borderland. Noted by H. P. Lovecraft as a classic of the first water it is considered a literary milestone that signaled a radical departure from the typical Gothic fiction of the late 19th century ushering in a newer more realistic and scientific cosmic horror that left a marked impression on those who would become the great writers of weird tales of the mid-twentieth century.The story within the story is a hallucinatory account of an old recluse and his very strange house in which he experiences attacks by supernatural swine-beasts travels to otherworldly dimensions and bears witness to the destruction of the solar system -- it is galactic adventure prophetic fantasy macabre romance and drugless trip and brilliantly unites its many disturbing elements easily equalling if not surpassing all predecessors and contemporaries.