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'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’.
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 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.
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
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.
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The Nightland (Hardcover)
William Hope Hodgson; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R536
Discovery Miles 5 360
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The Night Land (1912) is a terrifying tale of romance and fantasy
in which William Hope Hodgson imagines humanity at the end of the
world. Noted for its creative exploration of concepts such as
telepathy, futuristic technologies, and reincarnation, Hodgson's
novel is an indisputable classic of literary science fiction. When
a widower dreams of Earth in a far-off future, what he sees is
nearly unrecognizable. The sun has been extinguished, and all human
life has been forced to gather within the Last Redoubt, a metal
pyramid looming miles above the darkened planet. Outside, monstrous
forces gather, waiting for the mysterious energy source powering
humanity's last refuge to die out. When the narrator unexpectedly
connects with a young woman telepathically, he makes the horrifying
choice to leave the safety of the pyramid in order to search for
her at the rumored Lesser Redoubt, long thought lost to the dark.
The Night Land journeys to the outer reaches of space and time to
see how far humanity will go to keep love, and itself, alive.
Complex and kaleidoscopic, William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land is
a classic story of romance and loss projected into a harsh,
unpredictable future. It is often considered a seminal work in the
Dying Earth or apocalyptic subgenre of science fiction and fantasy.
For its strange blend of futuristic imagery and archaic narration,
the book was initially deemed difficult to read. However, as time
has passed, and with the help of positive reviews by such figures
as H.P. Lovecraft, The Night Land is now appreciated for the depths
of its vision and the experimental nature of its form. For modern
readers, who face the daily reality of a deadly pandemic and a
future threatened by global climate disaster, Hodgson's work can
only prove timely. For fans of classic science fiction, horror, and
fantasy, The Night Land is a guaranteed hit. With a beautifully
designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this new
edition of William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land is a classic work
of science fiction reimagined for modern readers.
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The Nightland (Paperback)
William Hope Hodgson; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R361
Discovery Miles 3 610
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The Night Land (1912) is a terrifying tale of romance and fantasy
in which William Hope Hodgson imagines humanity at the end of the
world. Noted for its creative exploration of concepts such as
telepathy, futuristic technologies, and reincarnation, Hodgson's
novel is an indisputable classic of literary science fiction. When
a widower dreams of Earth in a far-off future, what he sees is
nearly unrecognizable. The sun has been extinguished, and all human
life has been forced to gather within the Last Redoubt, a metal
pyramid looming miles above the darkened planet. Outside, monstrous
forces gather, waiting for the mysterious energy source powering
humanity's last refuge to die out. When the narrator unexpectedly
connects with a young woman telepathically, he makes the horrifying
choice to leave the safety of the pyramid in order to search for
her at the rumored Lesser Redoubt, long thought lost to the dark.
The Night Land journeys to the outer reaches of space and time to
see how far humanity will go to keep love, and itself, alive.
Complex and kaleidoscopic, William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land is
a classic story of romance and loss projected into a harsh,
unpredictable future. It is often considered a seminal work in the
Dying Earth or apocalyptic subgenre of science fiction and fantasy.
For its strange blend of futuristic imagery and archaic narration,
the book was initially deemed difficult to read. However, as time
has passed, and with the help of positive reviews by such figures
as H.P. Lovecraft, The Night Land is now appreciated for the depths
of its vision and the experimental nature of its form. For modern
readers, who face the daily reality of a deadly pandemic and a
future threatened by global climate disaster, Hodgson's work can
only prove timely. For fans of classic science fiction, horror, and
fantasy, The Night Land is a guaranteed hit. With a beautifully
designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this new
edition of William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land is a classic work
of science fiction reimagined for modern readers.
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
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.
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.
An adventure of both science fiction and fantasy-one of the great
love stories--this is William Hope Hodgson's masterpiece, rewritten
for the modern reader. Penned in 1912, The Night Land is considered
by many to be a work of genius, but one written in a difficult,
archaic style that readers often find impenetrable. As a labor of
love, James Stoddard has rewritten Hodgson's book to bring it to a
wider audience. The story opens in the 19th century, but quickly
moves to the far future, where the sun has gone out, leaving the
world in a darkness broken only by strange lights and mysterious
fires. Over the ages, monsters and evil forces have descended to
the earth, compelling the surviving humans to take refuge in a
great pyramid of imperishable metal built in a miles-deep chasm.
The monsters surround the pyramid in a perpetual siege lasting for
eons, waiting for the moment when its defenses will fail. But one
man, born out of his time, must leave the pyramid to seek his
long-lost love though all the perils of the Night Land.
"The House on the Borderland (1908) -- perhaps the greatest of all
Mr. Hodgson's works -- tells of a lonely and evilly regarded house
in Ireland which forms a focus for hideous otherworld forces and
sustains a siege by blasphemous hybrid anomalies from a hidden
abyss below. The wanderings of the Narrator's spirit through
limitless light-years of cosmic space and Kalpas of eternity, and
its witnessing of the solar system's final destruction, constitute
something almost unique in standard literature. And everywhere
there is manifest the author's power to suggest vague, ambushed
horrors in natural scenery." -- H.P. Lovecraft
Six tales of Carnacki the Ghost Finder, tales of the outre, the
unexpected, and the unexplained from a reknowned master of the
macabre, William Hope Hodgeson. (This jacketless hardcover edition
is intended for the library trade.)
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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