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The House on the Borderland

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A visionary weird-fiction novel where an isolated house opens onto cosmic horror and collapsing time.

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The House on the Borderland

The House on the Borderland begins with a manuscript discovered in remote Ireland and expands into one of early weird fiction’s strangest journeys. Hodgson combines haunted-house suspense, monstrous invasion, dream vision, cosmic scale, and the terror of time itself.

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William Hope Hodgson died in 1918, and The House on the Borderland was first published or composed in 1908; these dates support the public-domain basis for this edition.

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The House on the Borderland

William Hope Hodgson

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William Hope Hodgson

_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. Set out here, with Notes_.

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_(Whose feet tread the lost aeons)_

Open the door, And listen!

Only the wind's muffled roar, And the glisten Of tears 'round the moon.

And, in fancy, the tread Of vanishing shoon-- Out in the night with the Dead.

"Hush! And hark To the sorrowful cry Of the wind in the dark.

Hush and hark, without murmur or sigh, To shoon that tread the lost aeons:

To the sound that bids you to die.

Hush and hark! Hush and Hark!" _Shoon of the Dead_

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  1. 01Full text
  2. 02THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND
  3. 03TO MY FATHER
  4. 04AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION TO THE MANUSCRIPT
  5. 05_I_
  6. 06THE FINDING OF THE MANUSCRIPT
  7. 07part. This, I found out from Tonnison, was actually as he had discovered
  8. 08_II_
  9. 09THE PLAIN OF SILENCE
  10. 10_III_
  11. 11THE HOUSE IN THE ARENA
  12. 12_IV_
  13. 13THE EARTH
  14. 14books or work.
  15. 15_V_
  16. 16THE THING IN THE PIT
  17. 17_VI_
  18. 18THE SWINE-THINGS
  19. 19particular, I would gladly have been quit of so many eerie noises. It
  20. 20_VII_
  21. 21THE ATTACK
  22. 22_VIII_
  23. 23AFTER THE ATTACK
  24. 24_IX_
  25. 25IN THE CELLARS
  26. 26_X_
  27. 27THE TIME OF WAITING
  28. 28_XI_
  29. 29THE SEARCHING OF THE GARDENS
  30. 30partial search of the gardens, accompanied by Pepper; but, without
  31. 31_XII_
  32. 32THE SUBTERRANEAN PIT
  33. 33_XIII_
  34. 34THE TRAP IN THE GREAT CELLAR
  35. 35_XIV_
  36. 36THE SEA OF SLEEP
  37. 37THE FRAGMENTS[2]
  38. 38_XV_
  39. 39THE NOISE IN THE NIGHT
  40. 40_XVI_
  41. 41THE AWAKENING
  42. 42_XVII_
  43. 43THE SLOWING ROTATION
  44. 44parts ringed with blood-red bands; in others, with the dusky ones, that
  45. 45_XVIII_
  46. 46THE GREEN STAR
  47. 47_XIX_
  48. 48THE END OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
  49. 49_XX_
  50. 50THE CELESTIAL GLOBES
  51. 51_XXI_
  52. 52THE DARK SUN
  53. 53parted from my Love, upon its quiet surface, and it had gone, utterly.
  54. 54_XXII_
  55. 55THE DARK NEBULA
  56. 56_XXIII_
  57. 57PEPPER
  58. 58_XXIV_
  59. 59THE FOOTSTEPS IN THE GARDEN
  60. 60_XXV_
  61. 61THE THING FROM THE ARENA
  62. 62_XXVI_
  63. 63THE LUMINOUS SPECK
  64. 64_XXVII_
  65. 65CONCLUSION
  66. 66FOOTNOTES:
  67. 67chapter entitled "The Noise in the Night."--Ed.

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