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Title: The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson ISBN: 9-0769170-1-9 Publisher: Coppens & Frenks. Publishers Pub. Date: October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.03 (30 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Classic of the Genre
Comment: Combine H. P. Lovecraft, Julio Cortazar (his story "House Taken Over" may have been inspired by this book) and the siege mentality of "Straw Dogs," and you have "The House on Borderland." Written before World War I, this book ranks right up there with Poe's only novel, "The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym" as one of the seminal contributions to the genre of science-fiction (before there was such a term) and horror. The narrative of an elderly widower -- told in the form of a manuscript found in the ruins of the house -- is compelling. The "action" tends to sag a bit in the middle of the novel as the narrator's mind/spirit embarks on a nightmarish "out of body" journey where he floats as a passive "witness" to an unexplained dimension of time and space, where the house also exists, and he seemingly observes the death of the solar system. However, the narrator's recounting of his mounting dread and helplessness as the story builds to its frightening climax is remarkable. You're left with many questions, none of them satisfactorily explained. But that's the mystery of the house and the manuscript -- some things just have ragged edges. I'm amazed no one has seen fit to adapt this to film.
Rating: 5
Summary: fascinating horror story
Comment: The fantastic visionary horror about a human fear and despair. A creatures from an other dimensions attacking the narrator's house, which stands lonely in desolate gardens, the witness of the end of our solar system, the way into a strange assembly of old and forgotten heathen Gods in a arena in the midst a great mountains, horrible steps of something invisible heard by nights, a dark basements and endless abyss below the house (perhaps opening to another worlds - the all is written out with the most amazing imaginary. Especially the journey of the main figure through the billions of the centuries into the future by an accelerating of the time is something absolutely original and inimitable. I have read a lot of the books but I never have met so the wonderful one as "The house on the borderland" is. I dare to say, that Mr. Hodgson is (despite of his rather worse and jerky style) more better and more creatvive than for example Lovercraft, Blackwood or C.A. Smith, but it's only my subjective opinion. What a shame that he was killed in the World War I. He could have proved much more.
Rating: 4
Summary: Pigmen from beyond.
Comment: This is a review of the illustrated graphic novel adaptation of the HODGSON novel. Definitely unsettling, this mature comic is dark and gothic just like a LOVECRAFT story or HAMMER film. The artwork is creepy and original and paints the gloomy picture the original book intended. A good, quick way to digest a visual work of literature about a place somewhere between good and evil that keeps the reader on the edge of eerie dread.
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Title: The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson ISBN: 1587156040 Publisher: Wildside Pr Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Best Ghost Stories by Algernon Blackwood ISBN: 0486229777 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1973 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Algernon Blackwood, S. T. Joshi ISBN: 0142180157 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson ISBN: 1587155826 Publisher: Wildside Press Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen, Austin Spare ISBN: 1871592119 Publisher: Creation Pub Group Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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