The House on the Borderland

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Уильям Хоуп Ходжсон. The House on the Borderland

TO MY FATHER

AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION TO THE MANUSCRIPT

I. THE FINDING OF THE MANUSCRIPT

II. THE PLAIN OF SILENCE

III. THE HOUSE IN THE ARENA

IV. THE EARTH

V. THE THING IN THE PIT

VI. THE SWINE-THINGS

VII. THE ATTACK

VIII. AFTER THE ATTACK

IX. IN THE CELLARS

X. THE TIME OF WAITING

XI. THE SEARCHING OF THE GARDENS

XII. THE SUBTERRANEAN PIT

XIII. THE TRAP IN THE GREAT CELLAR

XIV. THE SEA OF SLEEP

THE FRAGMENTS2

XV. THE NOISE IN THE NIGHT

XVI. THE AWAKENING

XVII. THE SLOWING ROTATION

XVIII. THE GREEN STAR

XIX. THE END OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM

XX. THE CELESTIAL GLOBES

XXI. THE DARK SUN

XXII. THE DARK NEBULA

XXIII. PEPPER

XXIV. THE FOOTSTEPS IN THE GARDEN

XXV. THE THING FROM THE ARENA

XXVI. THE LUMINOUS SPECK

XXVII. CONCLUSION

Grief16

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Many are the hours in which I have pondered upon the story that is set forth in the following pages. I trust that my instincts are not awry when they prompt me to leave the account, in simplicity, as it was handed to me.

I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown. Amid stiff, abrupt sentences I wandered; and, presently, I had no fault to charge against their abrupt tellings; for, better far than my own ambitious phrasing, is this mutilated story capable of bringing home all that the old Recluse, of the vanished house, had striven to tell.

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"That's a waterfall," he exclaimed, with conviction. "I know the sound now." And he began to push vigorously through the bushes, in the direction of the noise.

As we went forward, the sound became plainer continually, showing that we were heading straight toward it. Steadily, the roaring grew louder and nearer, until it appeared, as I remarked to Tonnison, almost to come from under our feet—and still we were surrounded by the trees and shrubs.

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