The House on the Borderland

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The House on the Borderland

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Language: English

Published in: 1907

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Word count: 50,788 words (≈ about 3 hours)

Source: http://gutenberg.net

Copyright: This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA.

Hodgson wrote a trilogy consisting of Date 1965 Modern Warfare, The House on the Borderland, and The Ghost Pirates. The setting for The House on the Borderland is an ancient house in a lonely part of Ireland, where an old man lives alone with his sister and his pets. His diary is found and it tells the story… (more)


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Wattsian
Wattsian
Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:26:56 +0100

A stunningly original work that suffers somewhat from long strange flights of interdimensional fancy in the last half of the book, but whose strange imagination carries some plodding passages and tensionless moments into success.

The layout of the tale reminds me of H.P. Lovecraft (and he cites this as a big influence), and the lengthy finale is reminiscent of _2001: A Space Odyssey_ in strange astral projection amongst the stars.



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