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Summary: Crazy. Absolutely crazy.
Review: (...) This book is an adventure story about a guy who has a gun and a whole buttload of pigpeople to kill. Zoom! Boom! Bazoom! That's what I think his shotgun sounded like as he unloaded it into those foul creatures! It's crazy, I tell you!Then he goes into space right? To the GREEN SUN. Obviously a play on the Loc-Nar from the movie Heavy Metal. What a load. William H. Hodgeson obviously travelled into the future to copy it. Or maybe the Grimaldi guy went back in time and showed him the story boards. I don't know. But it's crazy, I tell you! (...)
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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: 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: best book in weird fiction
Review: a man in a house starts to be bothered by some strange beings. he must protect his house, and his sister (who sort of goes in and out of the story). he decides to investigate, and finds that there is more to his house than meets the eye. excellent book. great descriptions, especially of the cosmos and the weird landscape. Hodgson have a way of describing how horrible it is to be utterly helpless while your surrondings are or are changing to something really great, weird and horrible. this is more a story about contact with something outerworldly, than a haunted house story. hodgson's masterpiece.
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Summary: The real inspirer of H.P.Lovecraft...
Review: A rising sense of cosmic horror culminating in a lot of creatures from Outside in this unforgettable book that takes you to the boundary of time and space.
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Summary: A Classic of the Genre
Review: Combine H. P. Lovecraft, Julio Cortazar (his story "House Taken Over" may have been inspired by this book) and the siege mentality of "Straw Dogs," and you have "The House on Borderland." Written before World War I, this book ranks right up there with Poe's only novel, "The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym" as one of the seminal contributions to the genre of science-fiction (before there was such a term) and horror. The narrative of an elderly widower -- told in the form of a manuscript found in the ruins of the house -- is compelling. The "action" tends to sag a bit in the middle of the novel as the narrator's mind/spirit embarks on a nightmarish "out of body" journey where he floats as a passive "witness" to an unexplained dimension of time and space, where the house also exists, and he seemingly observes the death of the solar system. However, the narrator's recounting of his mounting dread and helplessness as the story builds to its frightening climax is remarkable. You're left with many questions, none of them satisfactorily explained. But that's the mystery of the house and the manuscript -- some things just have ragged edges. I'm amazed no one has seen fit to adapt this to film.
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Summary: HODGSON'S BEST NOVEL
Review: Hodgsdon is a wildly uneven writer (try wading through THE NIGHT LAND,2 volumes of unrelieved hogwash)who could stand with the titans of the horror field when he was at the top of his form. THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND is Hodgson at his peak. His scope is cosmic and his outlook bleak. Hodgson's real strength was medium-length novellas and short stories (nobody wrote creepier stories about the sea and its infinite mysteries that he did)but his novels are less successful. In HOUSE, Hodgson manages to maintain his trademark atmosphere of mysterious powers beyond human ken almost throughout the narrative.
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Summary: A truly haunting tale.
Review: House on the Borderland is a must-read for those who appreciate the atmosphere Lovecraft created in many of his tales, such as The Lurking Fear. The swine-things in the subterranean pit are the most frightening thing I have ever read. The story does drag a bit toward the middle-end, as our protagonist is travelling across time.
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Summary: The best of its kind
Review: I award this book 5 stars, not because it is one of the best books ever, but because it is one of the best of its kind. I first read it many years ago, in another edition, and it scared me so much I have never been able to forget it. This book is haunting and troubling. I agree with the reviewer that it is better not to reveal too much of the story; the story must be read and information given bit by bit to make this story effective. But I did have a slightly different interpretation. When I originally read it, I couldn't decide if it was all "real" or if the writer was suffering from a psychotic break. I guess it doesn't matter in terms of a good story. At any rate, anyone who enjoys a really good scarey book should read this one!
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Summary: The best of its kind
Review: I award this book 5 stars, not because it is one of the best books ever, but because it is one of the best of its kind. I first read it many years ago, in another edition, and it scared me so much I have never been able to forget it. This book is haunting and troubling. I agree with the reviewer that it is better not to reveal too much of the story; the story must be read and information given bit by bit to make this story effective. But I did have a slightly different interpretation. When I originally read it, I couldn't decide if it was all "real" or if the writer was suffering from a psychotic break. I guess it doesn't matter in terms of a good story. At any rate, anyone who enjoys a really good scarey book should read this one!
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