The House on the Borderland
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- First published
- 1908
- Pages
- 176
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01 - Author's Introduction & The Finding of the Manuscript
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02 - The Plain of Silence
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03 - The House in the Arena
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04 - The Earth
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05 - The Thing in the Pit
14:09 -
06 - The Swine-Things
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07 - The Attack
11:06 -
08 - After the Attack
9:30 -
09 - In the Cellars
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10 - The Time of Waiting
6:38 -
11 - The Searching of the Gardens
13:53 -
12 - The Subterranean Pit
21:35 -
13 - The Trap in the Great Cellar
9:29 -
14 - The Sea of Sleep
8:41 -
15 - The Noise in the Night
21:52 -
16 - The Awakening
10:46 -
17 - The Slowing Rotation
12:52 -
18 - The Green Star
14:40 -
19 - The End of the Solar System
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20 - The Celestial Globes
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21 - The Dark Sun
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22 - The Dark Nebula
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23 - Pepper
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24 - The Footsteps in the Garden
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25 - The Thing From the Arena
18:01 -
26 - The Luminous Speck
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27 - Conclusion
10:58
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About this book
Two fishermen exploring the wild west of Ireland discover the ruins of a strange circular house and, within it, a battered journal. Its author, a recluse who lived there with his sister, recorded encounters with monstrous swine-creatures that clawed up from a nearby chasm, along with vast visions that swept him across time to the death of the solar system itself. Hodgson blends visceral horror with an eerie sense of scale, prefiguring the cosmic dread later associated with Lovecraft, who admired the book. Published in 1908, it stands among the strangest and most ambitious works of early weird fiction.
From the opening pages
Right away in the west of Ireland lies a tiny hamlet called Kraighten. It is situated, alone, at the base of a low hill. Far around there spreads a waste of bleak and totally inhospitable country; where, here and there at great intervals, one may come upon the ruins of some long desolate cottage—unthatched and stark. The whole land is bare and unpeopled, the very earth scarcely covering the rock that lies beneath it, and with which the country abounds, in places rising out of the soil in wave-shaped ridges.
Yet, in spite of its desolation, my friend Tonnison and I had elected to spend our vacation there. He had stumbled on the place by mere chance the year previously, during the course of a long walking tour, and discovered the possibilities for the angler in a small and unnamed river that runs past the outskirts of the little village.
I have said that the river is without name; I may add that no map that I have hitherto consulted has shown either village or stream. They seem to have entirely escaped observation: indeed, they might never exist for all that the average guide tells one. Possibly this can be partly accounted for by the fact that the nearest railway station (Ardrahan) is some forty miles distant.
It was early one warm evening when my friend and I arrived in Kraighten. We had reached Ardrahan the previous night, sleeping there in rooms hired at the village post office, and leaving in good time on the following morning, clinging insecurely to one of the typical jaunting cars.
It had taken us all day to accomplish our journey over some of the roughest tracks imaginable, with the result that we were thoroughly tired and somewhat bad tempered. However, the tent had to be erected and our goods stowed away before we could think of food or rest. And so we set to work, with the aid of our driver, and soon had the tent up upon a small patch of ground just outside the little village, and quite near to the river.
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Book facts
- Author
- William Hope Hodgson
- First published
- 1908
- Reading time
- About 4 hours
- Pages
- 176
- Language
- English
- Genre
- British Classics
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
- Audio read by
- Alan Winterrowd