The House on the Borderland - Iain Sinclair

The House on the Borderland

By: Iain Sinclair (Afterword by), William Hope Hodgson, Alan Moore (Introduction by)

Paperback | 15 October 2020

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"I am an old man. I live here in this ancient house, surrounded by huge, unkempt gardens."


An exiled recluse, an ancient abode in the remote west of Ireland, nightly attacks by malevolent swine-things from a nearby pit, and cosmic vistas beyond time and space. The House on the Borderland has been praised by China Mieville, Terry Pratchett, and Clark Ashton Smith, while H.P. Lovecraft wrote, "Few can equal [Hodgson] in adumbrating the nearness of nameless forces and monstrous besieging entities through casual hints and significant details, or in conveying feelings of the spectral and abnormal."


"Almost from the moment that you hear the title," observes Alan Moore, "you are infected by the novel's weird charisma. Knock and enter at your own liability." The House on the Borderland remains one of Hodgson's most celebrated works. This new edition features an introduction by Alan Moore, an afterword by Iain Sinclair, and illustrations by John Coulthart.


Industry Reviews

"To commemorate this sad anniversary, the Swan River Press has issued an exceptional new edition of Hodgson's most famous novel . . . To gauge something of the novel's power, imagine a psychedelic expansion of Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher'" - Michale Dirda, Washington Post



"Anyone in the future considering reprinting The House on the Borderland can now pack it in and give up the ghost, because Swan River Press has produced the best version ever. There is no need for any other, for none will match this triumph." - Dead Reckonings



"The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson. Adored by HPL. A summit of Cosmic horror. Scary, disturbing and magical." - Guillermo del Toro



"Among connoisseurs of fantasy fiction William Hope Hodgson deserves a high and permanent rank . . . [The House on the Borderland is] perhaps the greatest of all Mr. Hodgson's works." - H. P. Lovecraft



"My granny thought that they occasional doses of mindless terror were just what a healthy, growing boy needed. She let me work my way along the Conan Doyles and the Vernes. Just when I thought it was all going well, she hit me with Hodgson . . . . [The House on the Borderland] was the Big Bang in my private universe as a SF/fantasy reader and, later, writer." - Terry Pratchett



"Almost from the moment that you hear the title you are infected by the novel's weird charisma . . . Knock and enter at your own liability." - Alan Moore


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