"The House on the Borderland" by William Hope Hodgson. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. 1st ed. Art by Hannes Bok

            This book from Arkham House collects four bizarre novels by British author William Hope Hodgson, their first printing in the USA.  They are “The Boats of the Glen Carrig” (1907), “The House on the Borderland” (1908), “The Ghost Pirates” (1909), and “The Night Land” (1912).  Primarily the romanticist, Hodgson could not overcome a strong predilection for the weird.  A thread of romance creeps into even “The House on the Borderland,” perhaps his best work and one of the most unforgettable weird-scientific novels ever written.  “The Night Land” which was subtitled “a love tale” is a weird fantasy story of the world millions of years in the future.  

William Hope Hodgson (1875-1918) was the son of an Essex clergyman who left home early in life to spend eight years at sea, a circumstance that profoundly influenced his writing career, for his best weird tales were written about the sea.  When World War I broke out, Hodgson was granted a commission in the 171st Brigade at Royal Field Artillery.  He fought at Ypres and, in the following year, he distinguished himself for bravery by the part he played to help stem the onslaught of a superior German force.  Not long after, while on duty in the dangerous post of observation officer of his Brigade, he was killed by a shell.  

Hannes Bok (1914-1964) is one of a handful of fantasy illustrators from the pulp magazine era, along with Virgil Finlay and Edd Cartier, whose work is just as popular today as it was in the 1940s.  He made his professional debut in the pages of Weird Tales in late 1939, but he began dabbling in fantasy and science fiction art as early as 1930. He did considerable pulp magazine work throughout the 1940s, and was active as a book illustrator and painter in the late 1940s and early 1950s, contributing to such publishers as Arkham House, Shasta, Fantasy Press, and Gnome Press.

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House on the Borderland

The House on the Borderland

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William Hope Hodgson

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1946

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Ghost Pirates

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