Paperback, 192 pages
English language
Published 1990 by Grafton Books, Grafton Books, London.
The house of the borderland
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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The House on the Borderland is a supernatural horror novel by William Hope Hodgson. He went beyond the existing ghost story and gothic molds, synthesizing a new cosmic horror that made a huge impact on later writers of weird tales, notably H. P. Lovecraft. The two gentlemen Tonnison and Berreggnog head to a village in Ireland for a week's fishing. There they discover the ruins of a strange house and the diary of the house's former occupant, the words on its torn pages hinting at an evil far beyond anything that has existed in this world before.
