William Hope Hodgson's The House on the Borderland

A Classic Supernatural Horror

William Hope Hodgson

• Publisher: Fantasy and Horror Classics
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473349506
• Print ISBN:
  9781447418306

This timeless tale of supernatural horror presents the extraordinary encounters of a man trapped in an isolated mansion consumed by unimaginable terror.

When two men discover a strange abyss in the secluded reaches of Western Ireland, they come across a journal in the abandoned ruins of an old house. The account recorded within its pages reveals a harrowing tale of unexplained phenomena. First published in 1908, The House on the Borderland is William Hope Hodgson's masterful novella of eerie horror and otherworldly experiences.

Table of contents

• William Hope Hodgson
• AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION TO THE MANUSCRIPT
• I. THE FINDING OF THE MANUSCRIPT
• II. THE PLAIN OF SILENCE
• III. THE HOUSE IN THE ARENA
• IV. THE EARTH
• V. THE THING IN THE PIT
• VI. THE SWINE-THINGS
• VII.THE ATTACK
• VIII. AFTER THE ATTACK
• IX. IN THE CELLARS
• X. THE TIME OF WAITING
• XI. THE SEARCHING OF THE GARDENS
• XII. THE SUBTERRANEAN PIT
• XIII. THE TRAP IN THE GREAT CELLAR
• XIV. THE SEA OF SLEEP
• XV. THE NOISE IN THE NIGHT
• XVI. THE AWAKENING
• XVII. THE SLOWING ROTATION
• XVIII. THE GREEN STAR
• XIX. THE END OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
• XX. THE CELESTIAL GLOBES
• XXI. THE DARK SUN
• XXII. THE DARK NEBULA
• XXIII. PEPPER
• XXIV. THE FOOTSTEPS IN THE GARDEN
• XXV. THE THING FROM THE ARENA
• XXVI. THE LUMINOUS SPECK
• XXVII. CONCLUSION
• FOOTNOTES