CC H689
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
| 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.