Loved itHouse on the Borderlands still very good.
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The House on the Borderland (1946)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive 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.
- ISBN:
- 9781604245363
- Length:
- 174 pages
Genres: fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, classics
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Loved it
Loved itone of the most the scariest books I've read in recent years which is all the more strange considering it's from the 19th century basically and it's an amazing book about Cosmic Horror in the lovecraftian vein