The House on the Borderland (Heathen Edition)

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Price
$9.95
Publisher
Heathen Editions
Publish Date
Pages
168
Dimensions
5.5 X 8.5 X 0.39 inches | 0.48 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781948316088

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About the Author
William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was born in Essex but moved several times, including a stint in County Galway - inspiration for The House on the Borderland. Drawn to the sea, he worked in the Merchant Marine. His association with the ocean would unfold in his many sea stories, part of a fantastic legacy of adventure, mystery and horror fiction.
Reviews

"This extraordinary novel defies categorization. It is galactic adventure, prophetic fantasy, macabre romance and drugless trip, and brilliantly unites its many disturbing elements, easily equaling, if not surpassing, all predecessors and contemporaries (including Jules Verne, Rider Haggard, and H.G. Wells). It is high time Hodgson's masterpiece was made available to the myriad readers he deserves." --Alexis Lykiard

"Hodgson hands us the whole of Time and Space in a couple chapters. The Big Bang in my private universe as a science fiction/fantasy reader and, later, writer . . . this is where the screaming really starts, out in the void, with no-one left to hear." --Terry Pratchett

"Perhaps the greatest of all Mr. Hodgson's works . . . 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. A classic of the first water." --H.P. Lovecraft

"Will produce genuine gooseflesh!" --The New York Times

"The tale is quite indescribable; its power is proved by the fascination with which it holds the fancy spellbound." --Daily Telegraph

"An imaginative tour de force whose power transcends its patchwork construction; the cosmic vision sequence makes it equally interesting as a scientific romance, but it definitely strikes what its admirer H. P. Lovecraft sought to define as 'the true note of cosmic horror.'" --Neil Barron

"Hodgson's imagination opens up endless vistas of time and space and rushes down them, headlong, leaving the reader breathless in his wake. The House on the Borderland, with its dizzying leaps through outer and inner space, remains a unique vision. It is good to see Hodgson's work once more receiving the attention it deserves." --Fantasy: The 100 Best Books