House On the Borderland, The

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Summary: The most chilling book I've ever read, unforgetable.
Review: A haunting and unforgetable story of deep, dark horror. Not your cheap, "blood and guts" hollywood horror, but real "you won't sleep" cosmic horror. A 2 part story of a man struggling against the horrors that lie outside his fortified house (the pig-men from the bowls of the earth) and the horrors that lie outside his fortified mind (the timeless, cosmic insignificance of life).

Much of the story relies on your imagination, with the threats and horror lurking millimeters from the written text, those readers blessed (cursed?) with a soul will never forget the fear that Hodgson implants.

Don't let the reviewers who don't understand the significance of the cosmic unravelling put you off, the "sci-fi" bit doesn't spoil the story, it's part 2 of the whole meaning of horror.

I envy anyone that wasn't horrified by this book, I wish I had their safe ignorant bliss.

Ohh, the horror...

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Summary: fascinating horror story
Review: The fantastic visionary horror about a human fear and despair. A creatures from an other dimensions attacking the narrator's house, which stands lonely in desolate gardens, the witness of the end of our solar system, the way into a strange assembly of old and forgotten heathen Gods in a arena in the midst a great mountains, horrible steps of something invisible heard by nights, a dark basements and endless abyss below the house (perhaps opening to another worlds - the all is written out with the most amazing imaginary. Especially the journey of the main figure through the billions of the centuries into the future by an accelerating of the time is something absolutely original and inimitable. I have read a lot of the books but I never have met so the wonderful one as "The house on the borderland" is. I dare to say, that Mr. Hodgson is (despite of his rather worse and jerky style) more better and more creatvive than for example Lovercraft, Blackwood or C.A. Smith, but it's only my subjective opinion. What a shame that he was killed in the World War I. He could have proved much more.

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Summary: Pigmen from beyond.
Review: This is a review of the illustrated graphic novel adaptation of the HODGSON novel. Definitely unsettling, this mature comic is dark and gothic just like a LOVECRAFT story or HAMMER film. The artwork is creepy and original and paints the gloomy picture the original book intended. A good, quick way to digest a visual work of literature about a place somewhere between good and evil that keeps the reader on the edge of eerie dread.