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Available for the first time in trade paperback, the first 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 (a professional
merchant mariner for much of his life, many of Hodgson's tales are
set at sea), and his work evokes a disturbing sense of the
amorphous and horrific unknown. While his nautical 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 later 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
first of the five-volume set, The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and
Other Nautical Adventures, collects all of Hodgson's series
nautical fiction, including the Sargasso Sea Story cycle. 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
'A few minutes, it seemed, and I had risen above the great
mountains – floating, alone, afar in the redness. At a tremendous
distance below, the arena showed, dimly; with the mighty House
looking no larger than a tiny spot of green. The Swine-thing was no
longer visible.' In the damp and neglected heart of a ruin in the
wilds of the west of Ireland, a manuscript is discovered entitled
The House on the Borderland. Penned by an enigmatic Recluse, the
contents spin an account of an uncanny and isolated existence,
which unfolds into a hallucinatory and mind-wracking journey into
cosmic revelations and encounters with beasts and beings without
name. For the Recluse seems to have discovered another land and in
it another House; a jade-green double of his own in a realm in
which the bounds of reality are untethered. First published in
1908, this masterpiece of Horror and the uncanny was a direct
influence on the imagination of H P Lovecraft and was described by
Terry Pratchett as ‘the Big Bang in my private universe as a
science fiction and fantasy reader and, later, writer’.
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Bear Head (Paperback)
Adrian Tchaikovsky; Narrated by Laurence Bouvard, Nathan Osgood, William Hope
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WELCOME TO HELL CITY, MARS Jimmy Martin has a sore head. He's used
to smuggling illegal data in his headspace. But this is the first
time it has started talking to him. The data claims to be a
distinguished academic, author and civil rights activist. It also
claims to be a bear. A bear named Honey. Jimmy has nothing against
bioforms - he's one himself, albeit one engineered out of human
stock - and works with them everyday in Hell City, building the
future, staking mankind's claim to a new world: Mars. The problem
is that humanity isn't the only entity with designs on the Red
Planet. Out in the airless desert there is another presence. A
novel intelligence, elusive, unknowable and potentially lethal. And
Honey is here to make contact with it, whether Jimmy likes it or
not.
William Hope Hodgson's "cosmic horror" classic continues the
Haunted Library of Horror Classics series. In a ruined house at the
edge of an abyss lies the diary of a madman… Two friends on a
fishing trip make an unsettling discovery when the river they've
been following abruptly ends and reappears some 100 feet below the
edge of an abyss. If that wasn't unnerving enough, the river runs
along the remains of an oddly shaped house, half-swallowed by the
pit. Within the ruins, they discover the moldering journal of an
unidentified man—the Recluse—who had lived in the house years
ago. Its pages reveal the man's apparent descent into madness—why
else would he chronicle haunted visions, trips to other dimensions,
and attacks by swine-like creatures that have followed him home?
After a horrific vision in which he witnesses the end of the earth
and time itself, the Recluse awakens in his study to find nothing
has changed—except that his dog has dissolved into a pile of
dust. And then the "swine things" return... Introduced by modern
horror master Ramsey Campbell as "an enduring classic of cosmic
terror," The House on the Borderland has inspired dozens of other
classic horror novels and indelibly changed the genre. Influencing
writers from H.P. Lovecraft to Terry Pratchett, this 1908
masterpiece shucks the conventions of Gothic horror and presents an
eerie mix of sci-fi, fantasy, and the supernatural.
Terminology Translation in Chinese Contexts: Theory and Practice
investigates the theory and practice of terminology translation,
terminology management, and scholarship within the distinctive
milieu of Chinese and explores the complex relationship between
terminology translation (micro level) and terminology management
(macro level). This book outlines the contemporary challenges of
terminology translation and terminology management within Chinese
contexts in specialized fields including law, the arts, religion,
Chinese medicine, and food products. The volume also examines how
the development and application of new technologies such as big
data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence have brought
about major changes in the language service industry. Technology
such as machine translation and computer-assisted translation has
spawned new challenges in terminology management practices and has
facilitated their evolution in contexts of ever greater
internationalization and globalization. This book recontextualizes
terminology translation and terminology management with a special
focus on English-Chinese translation. It is hoped that the volume
will enable and enhance dialogue between Chinese and Western
scholars and professionals in the field. All chapters have been
written by specialists in the different subfields and have been
peer-reviewed by the editors.
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
Available for the first time in trade paperback, the fourth 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 (a professional
merchant mariner for much of his life, many of Hodgson's tales are
set at sea), and his work evokes a disturbing sense of the
amorphous and horrific unknown. While his nautical 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
fourth book of the five-volume set, The Night Land and Other
Romances, collects all of his romances and women's fiction, as well
as the entirety of his classic 1912 dying-earth novel The Night
Land. 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
Terminology Translation in Chinese Contexts: Theory and Practice
investigates the theory and practice of terminology translation,
terminology management, and scholarship within the distinctive
milieu of Chinese and explores the complex relationship between
terminology translation (micro level) and terminology management
(macro level). This book outlines the contemporary challenges of
terminology translation and terminology management within Chinese
contexts in specialized fields including law, the arts, religion,
Chinese medicine, and food products. The volume also examines how
the development and application of new technologies such as big
data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence have brought
about major changes in the language service industry. Technology
such as machine translation and computer-assisted translation has
spawned new challenges in terminology management practices and has
facilitated their evolution in contexts of ever greater
internationalization and globalization. This book recontextualizes
terminology translation and terminology management with a special
focus on English-Chinese translation. It is hoped that the volume
will enable and enhance dialogue between Chinese and Western
scholars and professionals in the field. All chapters have been
written by specialists in the different subfields and have been
peer-reviewed by the editors.
A splash of something huge resounds through the sea-fog. In the
stillness of a dark room, some unspeakable evil is making its
approach. This new selection offers the most chilling and
unsettling of Hodgson's short fiction, from encounters with
abominations at sea to fireside tales of otherworldly forces from
his inventive `occult detective' character Carnacki, the ghost
finder. A master of conjuring atmosphere, when the horror
inevitably arrives it is delivered with breathtaking pace and the
author's unique evocation of overwhelming panic.
A house seemingly disconnected in time and space becomes the
setting for brutal conflict between the hapless homeowner and a
collection of grotesque semi-human creatures in this landmark of
fantasy and horror. The House on the Borderland is the account of a
man, known only as the recluse, who moves into a remote and shunned
house and unwittingly finds himself suspended between worlds,
traveling through time, and fighting for his life against a siege
of misshapen monstrosities. The author's sweeping imagination
evokes a wide variety of fantastical effects, from eerie
intimations of the weird to vivid manifestations of supernatural
horror, from fabulous glimpses of otherworldly landscapes to direct
combat with non-human assailants of murderous intent. First
published in 1908, the novel quickly acquired a reputation as a
rare and visionary example of cosmic horror that would influence
and draw praise from H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Olaf
Stapleton and others. As gripping and surreal as a fever dream, The
House on the Borderland remains one of the most transporting
destinations in literature. With an eye-catching new cover, and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The House on the
Borderland is both modern and readable.
Cited by H.P. Lovecraft as 'perhaps the greatest of all Mr.
Hodgson's works', this tale of a deserted house in Ireland hints at
a terrifying evil. When two men on an innocent fishing trip
encounter the enigmatic ruins of a house, they slowly uncover its
secrets through the diary of its previous tenant. At each turn of
the page, horrors begin to unfold, monsters are revealed and new
dimensions exposed. A gripping story right to the very end,
Hodgson's masterful writing leads the reader into a nightmarish
world from which there may be no escape. FLAME TREE 451: From
mystery to crime, supernatural to horror and fantasy to science
fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and
mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad
scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist
fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for
the reader of the fantastic. Each book features a brand new
biography and glossary of Literary, Gothic and Victorian terms.
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The Ghost Pirates
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