The House on the Borderland

by William Hope Hodgson

Release: 1908
Format: Novel
Genres: Horror, Weird Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

Supernatural-story pioneer William Hope Hodgson was an inspiration for Lovecraft and later generations of writers. This novel of an Irish house that lay at the intersection of monstrous other dimensions seems to include time travel when the narrator witnesses and returns from a future the Earth is falling into the Sun while a second green star visits our solar system.

— Michael Main

Years appeared to pass, slowly. The earth had almost reached the center of the sun’s disk. The light from the Green Sun—as now it must be called—shone through the interstices, that gapped the mouldered walls of the old house, giving them the appearance of being wrapped in green flames. The Swine-creatures still crawled about the walls.

DEBUT

The House on the Borderland (Chapman and Hall, 1908).

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1 English variant

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