The House on the Borderland : 42

Author: Hope Hodgson, William

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 19 October 2023 by British Library Publishing in the United Kingdom as part of 'the British Library Tales of the Weird' series.

Paperback | 208 pages
182 x 197 x 18 | 184g

'I had been staying just within the shadow of the exit of the great rift. Now, without volition on my part, I drifted out of the semi-darkness and began to move slowlytoward the House.'Amidst the din of roaring water, in a chasm where a house once stood in an isolated corner of Ireland, a manuscript is discovered entitled The House on the Borderland. Penned by the enigmatic Recluse, it tells of a revelatory descent into the uncanny. For the Recluse seems to have discovered another land and in it another House; a jade-green double of his own in a realm rife with beasts and cosmic beings without name, encroaching on the bounds of reality itself.

With a new introduction by Ann VanderMeer exploring why Hodgsons tale is the perfect embodiment of a weird novel, this edition of the 1908 cult classic still thrums with the visionary energy which influenced countless writers including H. P. Lovecraft and Terry Pratchett.