The House on the Borderland (Heathen Edition)

<p><strong>William Hope Hodgson</strong> (1877-1918) was an English author best known for <em>The Night Land</em> (1912) and this his second novel <em>The House on the Borderland</em>. 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.</p><p>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.”</p>