This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. On the third day of their fishing holiday to the remote Irish village, two friends stumble upon the ruins of a strangely shaped house on a large lake. They discover the moldering journal of the Recluse, an unidentified man who recorded his last days in the house before its destruction. He started the diary to record the strange experiences and horrors occurring in and around the house.
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William Hope Hodgson. The House on the Borderland (Horror Classic)
The House on the Borderland (Horror Classic)
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Table of Contents
To My Father (Whose feet tread the lost aeons)
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
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
Grief
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William Hope Hodgson
Author’s Introduction to the Manuscript
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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 towards 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.
