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5.0 out of 5 stars try a bit of edwardian spaciness, 28 Nov 2003

By	S. Hapgood "www.sjhstrangetales.com" - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

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Most of William Hope Hodgson's stuff has badly dated by now, to the point of being unreadable, which is a great shame as he was possessed of a truly amazing scope of imagination. I am pleased to say his greatest work, (in my opinion anyway) "The House On The Borderland", has aged very well though. It is an enthralling, hallucinogenic read which, once you get into the story, will have you gripped right to the end.

Set in a remote part of Ireland it concerns a man, who seems to arrive out of nowhere with his downtrodden sister, to take up residence in a depressing country house. From the moment they arrive strange, bizarre, highly surreal things begin to happen. The narrator becomes obsessed that demonic pig-like creatures are trying to break into his house. When his sister tries to escape from this gloomy madness he locks her in her room. He eventually confines himself to his own room where he descends into a very trippy nightmare in which he envisages the end of the Universe and time itself. This is an incredible read as you get swept along on the psychedelic ride of the narrator's tortured mind.

You won't come to the end any wiser than you were to start with as to just what happened, but that doesn't matter. You will be baffled for ages by exactly what is this place, who is this person, what on earth was going on?!!! If you want an ultimate fantasy read then I recommend you get caught up in the pages of this.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Surreal and Spellbinding, 12 Oct 2003

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This novel was written in the early part of the 20th century by one the many `forgotten' writers. William Hope Hodgson had the misfortune to be writing excellent works of dark fantasy and horror at a time when the world had little patience for them (around the Great War).

The book starts briskly with two travellers finding an old journal in some ruins overlooking a chasm in Ireland. The bulk of the book is the tale recorded in those pages. From the off the book leaps into surreal dream sequences, although the suspicion of the narrator and reader is that they are very far from being hallucinations.

Often this is writing on a cosmic scale- planets are witnessed being born and dying, the whole of time inverted. Equally often the horrors are very solid and very real- the most powerful section of the book being a siege on the house by the forces of the `outer darkness'. The book is worth buying for that section alone.

Often Hodgson's writing is marred by a slightly sentimental feel concerning emotions, but that is almost entirely missing from this book- the atmosphere is not so much bleak as inevitable. It is always apparent that any attempt to stave off the approach of the outer dark is only a temporary step.

A thoroughly enjoyable book: not so much a tale of things that go bump in the night, as a tale that rips the veil of reality aside to a nightmare foundation. This story is not subtle, and not meant to be- the depths inside it, however, are subtle touching on all manner of psychological concepts and ideas not published at the time of writing.

A superb book far ahead of its time.

Also worth a look are the `Carnacki' stories, `Boats of the Glen Carrig' and `The Ghost Pirates', which continue the Outer Darkness theme. In particular `The Hog', one of the Carnacki short stories.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great Art, Hokey Tale, 8 Mar 2002

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This graphic novel adaptation of William Hope Hodgson's 1908 gothic horror novel, while absolutely stunning visually, suffers from the hokeyness of story I find in almost all gothic horror. The graphic novel starts off with two young boys hiking in Ireland and discovering overgrown ruins and an old diary. The diary relates how a bachelor and his sister moved to the lonely estate, only to be preyed upon by horrific swinelike beast-men one night. They barely hold them off, and then the beast-men disappear without a trace. The sister goes slowly insane while the man explores the caverns and tunnels below the house. There, he opens a portal to a dimension in which supernatural evil lurks, and things get a bit trippy. We're not sure what's real and what's in his head, and we're not supposed to know. Like a lot of gothic horror, evil lurks just on the other side of our world and we are left alone (ie. ain't no God going to bail you out!) to fight a hopeless battle against it. If you've ever read any H.P. Lovecraft or even played the Call of Cthulu RPG based on his writings, you'll find a lot of the themes very familiar. And indeed, Lovecraft cited Hodgson's book as the seminal influence on his own work. Hodgson wrote it when he was 35 and died ten years later on a WWI battlefield (a horrific terrain not unlike that he wrote about), so in many ways, Lovecraft filled the void left by his death. While aficionados of gothic horror will love this, I can't really recommend it to others except that it is a wonderful piece of art. The deep somber colors and rich textures are well worth spending half and hour poring over.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Poor.
I understand why Alan Moore wrote the foreward to this graphic novel - the wordy, gothic style used by Simon Revelstroke in House on the Borderland is something he is quite fond... Read more

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William Hope Hodgson (killed during WW1) was the writer that inspired HP Lovecraft. At his best his cosmic visions of what lies beyond this earth are truly staggering. Read more

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