The House on the Borderland, William Hope Hodgson
The House on the Borderland, William Hope Hodgson
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The House on the Borderland

Author: William Hope Hodgson

Narrator: Mike Cuellar

Unabridged: 4 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: WTP

Published: 01/10/2022

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

In 1908, two men exploring a wild and forsaken tract of land came across the remains of a ruined house. A cursory investigation didn't reveal much, but they did find a manuscript, waterlogged and grown over with fungi. It detailed the story of the man who had lived there, and the bizarre occurrences that had happened to him. Astral projection, attacks from hideous, deformed creatures, ghostly visitations, a vision of the end of the solar system, and a final horror that ended the pages.No trace of the man was ever found, no clue to his identity was ever uncovered. Eventually, the document found its way into the hands of William Hope Hodgson, who published it in hopes someone might have an answer. This is the text of that document.

About William Hope Hodgson

English author William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was known for his works of horror and science-fiction. His first story, The Goddess of Death, was published in 1904. The Night Land, his last printed effort, was published in 1918. Hodgson was also renowned as a photographer and a bodybuilder. He died in battle during World War I at the age of 40.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on October 09, 2023

Certain writers always manage to find mysterious manuscripts in some godforsaken places… The House on the Borderland is one such manuscript written by a recluse living in a manor house that is a cosmic junction of time and space… I must have been here some ten years before I saw sufficient to warrant......more

Goodreads review by Henry on September 30, 2024

In an isolated area in the west of Ireland, far from big towns or roads and crowds there was a huge unwanted house, that the local people from the nearby little village of Kraighten said was haunted, the time before the dawn of the Twentieth Century, apparently more than a score of years then. Two s......more

Goodreads review by bup on April 28, 2011

Have you ever wondered what a place would be like where you were outside of time and space, neither dead nor alive? Where you could observe the mechanisms of the universe and see the death of our planet and sun? Where you could commune with souls of the dead in the black, silent sea of sleep? Well, i......more

Goodreads review by J.G. Keely on February 09, 2017

Read, write, and study books for long enough, and you'll eventually start to recognize how stories work. You'll find yourself saying things like "Oh, this character's going to die soon because the author just resolved the ongoing tension they had with the hero" or "Ah, the mysterious stranger must a......more

Goodreads review by Peter on July 09, 2018

You will never forget the books as long as you live. Incredible visions inside. I don't know what the author took but it was very strong stuff. Incredible book!......more