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William Hope Hodgson

HODGSON, William Hope, 1877–1918


Born
15 November 1877, Blackmore End, Essex, England
Died
19 April 1918, near Ypres, Belgium
Note
English sailor, writer of sea-horror and cosmic fiction. Killed in the First World War.

Influence

The House on the Borderland (1908) joins a remote house and a found manuscript to a vision of the solar system’s death. The fusion of adventure-horror with astronomical scale is a documented influence on Lovecraft’s cosmic fiction and on later writers who needed a form for deep time. Hodgson’s sea-horror belongs in a fuller bibliography; this entry catalogs the launch holding.

Launch bibliography

Works by William Hope Hodgson held, or to be held, in the Reading Room at launch. Not a complete bibliography.
Title Form First publication Call number Where to read
The House on the Borderland Novel First published as The House on the Borderland (London: Chapman & Hall, 1908). WF H689 .H68 1908 Reading Room

Where to read

In this Library: The House on the Borderland. Return to the Reading Room or the Card Catalog.

See also