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The House on the Borderland
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Wildside Press (2003-02-04)
ISBN: 1587155737
EAN: 9781587155734
Dewy Decimal #: 813
Paperback: 198 pages
Release Date: 2003-02-04
Condition: Like New
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Product Description
From the Manuscript discovered in 1877 by Messrs. Tonnison and Berreggnog, in the Ruins that lie to the South of the Village of Kraighten, in the West of Ireland -- a place known in certain arcane circles to be the Borderland between Earth and Faerie. A classic novel of horror by the acclaimed master of the macabre, William Hope Hodgson.
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Amazon.com Review
This classic novel of the weird supernatural, first published in 1908, was an important influence on H. P. Lovecraft. In the ruins of an ancient stone house in Ireland is found the diary of an elderly man who lived alone with his sister and their pets, and who longed for his lost love. The diary tells of how the man explores a cyclopean cavern beneath the house and fights off swarms of white pig-like monsters pouring up from below. Then, in a visionary sequence, he breaks through to an alternate space-time dimension and sees a doppelganger of his house on a vast desolate plain. The prose is hokey at times, but the strange mood evoked by the other-dimensional setting is powerful indeed. As acclaimed horror writer T. E. D. Klein says, "Never has a book so hauntingly conveyed a sense of terrible loneliness and isolation."
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