The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson

It's not that the slop isn't interesting from a historical point of view, you can obviously see how this work influenced authors from H.P. He sees his lost love, he sees Pepper age and die before his eyes, he sees the creatures return, he sees the door open.Īt the very heart of this book there is a great Gothic horror story to be had, but you have to wade through a lot of slop to get to it. The pit becomes a lake but the sound of rushing water is constant, which leads to the realization that a mysterious door in the cellar of the house leads directly into the abyss. They have to fight their way out of the pit against rushing water and their own frailties. He and Pepper laboriously work their way further and further into the pit only to see that at the bottom there is no bottom, just an abyss. They appeared to have come out of an ever growing pit near his home and after the attack he plans to investigate. He doesn't know how, but he fights them off. This time it's not on some distant planet but right outside his door. Months later the humanoid horrors attack his home. The creature clearly sees him before he departs. Before he returns home he sees a humanoid pig creature trying to force its way into the jade version of his house. The valley looked more like an arena because the mountains rise up in such away around the house that it feels as if they are watching it, along with the idols that dot the mountains. There a valley housed a jade replica of his own home. One night he had an out-of-body experience and traveled through space to another planet that had a vast plain. The house was long thought cursed by the locals, and after his experiences, perhaps they were right. The author of the journal lived in the house with his sister who acted as his housekeeper and his dog Pepper. They went looking for some good fishing in the west of Ireland and instead found a tale which will ensure they will never return to this benighted land. Only a journal tells of what happened there at the house near the abyss and that journal has been found by two travelers. There once were strange occurrences there. The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson

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