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| Author | William Hope Hodgson |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Horror novel |
| Publisher | Chapman and Hall |
Publication date | JAN 01 1908 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 300 pp (1st edition) |
The House on the Borderland (1908) is a supernatural horror novel by British fantasist William Hope Hodgson. The novel is a hallucinatory account of a recluse's stay at a remote house, and his experiences of supernatural creatures and otherworldly dimensions.
On encountering Hodgson's novels in 1934, American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft praised The House on the Borderland and other works by Hodgson at length.[1] Terry Pratchett has called the novel "the Big Bang in my private universe as a science fiction and fantasy reader and, later, writer".[2]
- ^ Lovecraft, H. P. Supernatural Horror in Literature, "SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE (1927, 1933 - 1935) by H.P. Lovecraft". Archived from the original on 12 October 2009. Retrieved 10 March 2010.
- ^ Pratchett, Terry: "On The House on the Borderland" in Horror: Hundred Best Books, page 100, edited by S Jones & K Newman, Carroll & Graf paperback, 1998