![]() ![]() The house is circular in form and its weird appearance includes peculiar decorations that suggest leaping flames. He has no contact with the local inhabitants, who say he is mad. The author of the journal introduces himself as an old man who has lived for years in an ancient house accompanied only by his sister, who serves as housekeeper, and his dog, Pepper. On a rock spur above this pit they find ruins and buried in them a journal, which they read. Two men on a two-week fishing vacation in remote western Ireland are surprised to discover a strange abyss. Terry Pratchett has called the novel "the Big Bang in my private universe as a science fiction and fantasy reader and, later, writer". Lovecraft praised The House on the Borderland and other works by Hodgson at length. On encountering Hodgson's novels in 1934, American horror writer H. ![]() The novel is a hallucinatory account of a recluse's stay at a remote house, and his experiences of supernatural creatures and otherworldly dimensions. The House on the Borderland (1908) is a supernatural horror novel by British fantasist William Hope Hodgson. ![]()
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