About

William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was an English author. He produced a large number of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror and science fiction. E died in World War I at the age of 40. Hodgson is most known for two novels: The House on the Borderland and The Night Land. N these works, despite his often laboured and clumsy language, Hodgson achieves a deep power of expression, which focuses on a sense not only of terror but of the ubiquity of potential terror, of the thinness of the invisible bound between the world of normality and an underlying reality for which humans are not suited.

William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was an English author. He produced a large number of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror and science fiction. He died in World War I at the age of 40. Hodgson is most known for two novels: The House on the Borderland and The Night Land.

William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was an English author. Hodgson is most known for two novels: The House on the Borderland and The Night Land. He produced a large number of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror and science fiction. He died in World War I at the age of 40.

William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was a leading writer of weird fiction whose career was tragically cut short by his death in World War I During a span of less than fifteen years, Hodgson wrote four novels and dozens of short stories, establishing himself as a pioneering writer of sea horror tales, many of them inspired by his own experiences as a sailor his volume features two of Hodgson's best short novels, The House on the Borderland and The Ghost Pirates, along with an array of his best short stories.

These include such classic tales as The Derelict and The Voice in the Night, along with several tales revolving around the psychic detective Thomas Carnacki he most accurate and authoritative texts are used, and the volume concludes with a bibliography of first apparances of all the items included The volume is edited by S.

Joshi, a leading authority on weird fiction oshi is the author of The Weird Tale (1990),The Modern Weird Tale (2001), and Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction (2012), and he has prepared editions of the work of H. P Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, Arthur Machen, Ambrose Bierce, and many other weird writers.

Edition Details

• Limited to 500 copies.
• Introduction by S. T. Joshi.
• Massive, 800-page, low-cost edition of Hodgson’s best stories.
• Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, full black cloth binding.
• Embossed William Hope Hodgson signature on front board.
• Gorgeous dustjacket.
• Photographs of William Hope Hodgson.

External Links

• Library of Weird Fiction: William Hope Hodgson. Centipede Press page for Library of Weird Fiction: William Hope Hodgson
• William Hope Hodgson (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for William Hope Hodgson