There, I found Tonnison standing within a small excavation that he had made among the debris: he was brushing the dirt from something that looked like a book, much crumpled and dilapidated and opening his mouth, every second or two, to bellow my name. I reached the crumbled wall, and climbed round. I wondered whether he had hurt himself, and then the thought came, that perhaps he had found something. Then, I heard a cry from Tonnison he was shouting my name, excitedly, and, without delay, I hurried along the rocky promontory to the ruin. The second of the five-volume set, The House on the Borderland and Other Mysterious Places, collects Hodgson’s mystery and suspense fiction, including those starring the occult detective Thomas Carnacki, and the titular novel The House on the Borderland, a seminal and influential work of early weird fiction.Uld see no signs of anything to show that there had ever been a building erected on the spot, and I grew more puzzled than ever. Each volume contains one of Hodgson's novels, along with a selection of thematically-linked short fiction, including a number of works reprinted for the first time since their original publication. Night Shade Books’s five-volume series presents all of Hodgson’s unique and timeless fiction. By the latter half of the twentieth century, it was only his weird fiction that remained in print, and his vast catalog of non-supernatural stories was extremely hard to find. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith, who often praised his work and cited it as an influence on their own. While his adventure fiction was very popular during his lifetime, the supernatural and cosmic horror he is most remembered for only became well known after his death, mainly due to the efforts of writers like H.
His dark and unsettling short stories and novels were shaped in large part by personal experience and his work evokes a disturbing sense of the amorphous and horrific unknown. William Hope Hodgson was, like his contemporaries Algernon Blackwood and Arthur Machen, one of the most important, prolific, and influential fantasists of the early twentieth century. Available for the first time in trade paperback, the second of five volumes collecting the complete fiction of William Hope Hodgson, an influential early twentieth-century author of science fiction, horror, and the fantastic.
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