William Hope Hodgson wrote essays, and fiction. His fiction consisted of fantasy fiction, horror stories, and science fiction. His hobbies included bodybuilding and photography. Carnacki is considered to be one of Hodgson's best horror novels and was a great influence on Stephen King. Carnacki was a quiet man living in an apartment by the river or was he in actuality a ghost hunter armed with an encyclopedic knowledge of supernatural manifestations and the arcane arts. In this novel Carnacki confronts demons, hauntings and invisible forces.

William Hope Hodgson wrote essays, and fiction. His fiction consisted of fantasy fiction, horror stories, and science fiction. His hobbies included body-building and photography. The Night Land was published in 1912. It is part of the Dying Earth subgenre. The story begins with a 17th century man grieving for his lost love. He is given a vision of a later time when people will be reunited. The story progresses to a time when the sun has gone out and the earth is dimply lit by volcanic residue. The last million people are huddled in a metal pyramid and are under attack by an unknown forces from without. .

Hodgson wrote a trilogy consisting of Date 1965 Modern Warfare, The House on the Borderland, and The Ghost Pirates. The setting for The House on the Borderland is an ancient house in a lonely part of Ireland, where an old man lives alone with his sister and his pets. His diary is found and it tells the story of a huge cavern below the house filled with white pig like monsters. The old man has had to flight these creatures. He then sees his house in an alternate space-time plain that is isolated from the rest of his world. This haunting tale conveys intense isolations and loneliness.

William Hope Hodgson wrote essays, and fiction. His fiction consisted of fantasy fiction, horror stories, and science fiction. His hobbies included body-building and photography. He wrote a trilogy consisting of Date 1965 Modern Warfare, The House on the Borderland, and The Ghost Pirates. In The Ghost Pirates the reader never sees a clear picture of the Ghosts. The doomed ship is on its last voyage with the spirits of bygone buccaneers. The ship is slowly over run and eventually sinks to an unknown fate below the sea.