The House on the Borderland
At an ancient and crumbling estate, overrun by wild gardens, resides a man who has a most unusual story to tell--a story that blends horror, fantasy, and science fiction. As a beautifully written work of pure imagination, it has few equals, and has been compared to the writings of Poe, Machen,...
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At an ancient and crumbling estate, overrun by wild gardens, resides a man who has a most unusual story to tell--a story that blends horror, fantasy, and science fiction. As a beautifully written work of pure imagination, it has few equals, and has been compared to the writings of Poe, Machen, Blackwood and Lovecraft. Reprint.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780786702824 (0786702826)
Publish date: February 12th 1996
Publisher: Running Press
Pages no: 188
Edition language: English
This book started off so promising--it was creepy in a science fictiony 1900 kind of way. And then it got weird. Not science fiction weird. More like Carl Sagan narrating a tour of the universe as imagined by some guy in 1900. For chapters and chapters and chapters.And then it goes back to part one,...
Two visitors to the West of Ireland, Tonnison and Berreggnog, stumble across a ruined house. They discover a damaged book in the midst of the debris. It is the diary of the reclusive former occupant of the house. In it, he recounts a series of bizarre phenomena he encounters while living there. Th...
The similarities of this novel with the atmosphere and the writing style of Lovecraft's stories were palpable. However, in Hodgson's work, the horror was more realistic and quite intense.
Wow... i tell you, I've read some crazy stuff in my time. BUT this tale. takes all those Biscuit's and dunks them in Gin! in a really good way though! I got this book on amazon it had some other stories with it i've yet to read. But anyway back to this strange tale. American horror writer H. P. ...
The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson Review to come.
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