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Summary: Corben's artwork is once again awesome!
Review: Richard Corben's artwork in this graphic novel is awesome as usual. Corben's art in this book is moody, abstract, and at times surreal. The art matches the story perfectly.I have never read the original version by William Hope Hodgson, but after reading this adaption of it to the graphic novel format, I certainly will. An excellent example of why I will always buy any book with Richard Corben's fantastic artwork.
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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: Stephen King Lovers TAKE NOTE
Review: The great granddaddy of horror classics, The House On The Borderland won't fail to scare the goosebumps off you. From age 13 to 113, readers will be uniformly chilled by Hodgeson. While the book was written before World War I, the concepts seem contemporary as Hodgeson takes fear of the unknown, and the dark, into ventures into time and space. Truly a forgotten masterpiece, this work influenced H.P. Lovecraft.
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Summary: Classic Thought-Provoking Fiction
Review: They found the pit by accident, and by it the ruins of a house. In the ruins they found a manuscript, the journal of a man who had, presumably, lived on that site. They read the journal, seeking to find out what horrors had occurred there. He had been surprised to purchase the house so easily. Huge, spacious, and elegant, it seemed a dream. It became his nightmare. It began with a dream, a flight through the darkness that revealed incomprehensible secrets. Then there came the discovery of the pig-like men. Loud and inhuman, they appeared in the real world much like they had in his dreams. They stalked the house, and its inhabitants. They came from the pit that yawned beside the house, and his attempt to find their source would set in motion an unstoppable chain of events that would leave nothing in his world unscathed. Originally written in the early 1900's, THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND is a novel that, in its own quiet way, challenges both the reader's intellect and beliefs. Though Hodgson intended the book to make his reader think about such concepts as heaven, hell, time and death, he also intended it to be a plain good read. While the ending does nothing to resolve the mystery of the House itself, the journey itself is well-worth the time it takes. The book contains an introduction written by Jane Gallion
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Summary: Strange blend of sci-fi, fantasy and horror
Review: This book was definitely an interesting one, although I felt as though the middle section of the book strayed drastically far from what he had set up beforehand. My favorite parts of this book are those that deal with the swine beasts of the pit. Those parts are extremely exciting and, in some areas, quite chilling.
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Summary: It's worth reading...it's short
Review: This book was very promising at the outset. It was a masterpiece in the making but the author never followed through. The plot took a very unrelated twist and the thrill of the old house was lost in the bizarre pursuit of the theory of the end of the world. All that was set up at the beginning was never returned to, and I was very disappointed at the non-ending. I did however generally enjoy the book and would recommend it because it is short, and reads fast.
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Summary: Great Art, Hokey Tale
Review: This graphic novel adaptation of William Hope Hodgson's 1908 gothic horror novel, while absolutely stunning visually, suffers from the hokeyness of story I find in almost all gothic horror. The graphic novel starts off with two young boys hiking in Ireland and discovering overgrown ruins and an old diary. The diary relates how a bachelor and his sister moved to the lonely estate, only to be preyed upon by horrific swinelike beast-men one night. They barely hold them off, and then the beast-men disappear without a trace. The sister goes slowly insane while the man explores the caverns and tunnels below the house. There, he opens a portal to a dimension in which supernatural evil lurks, and things get a bit trippy. We're not sure what's real and what's in his head, and we're not supposed to know. Like a lot of gothic horror, evil lurks just on the other side of our world and we are left alone (ie. ain't no God going to bail you out!) to fight a hopeless battle against it. If you've ever read any H.P. Lovecraft or even played the Call of Cthulu RPG based on his writings, you'll find a lot of the themes very familiar. And indeed, Lovecraft cited Hodgson's book as the seminal influence on his own work. Hodgson wrote it when he was 35 and died ten years later on a WWI battlefield (a horrific terrain not unlike that he wrote about), so in many ways, Lovecraft filled the void left by his death. While aficionados of gothic horror will love this, I can't really recommend it to others except that it is a wonderful piece of art. The deep somber colors and rich textures are well worth spending half and hour poring over.
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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.
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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.
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Summary: Not easily forgotten
Review: This is a story that will stay with you long after finishing it. Although I did find it a bit frustrating, as most questions asked never seem to be answered (Such as what do the swine-like creatures signify?),maybe Hodgson never meant for us to know the answers. For me, the most memorable part of the story is during the main character's "journey" in which he travels billions of years into the future to encounter the death of the solar system. Here one cannot help but feel the utter lonliness of being the last human on a dying Earth. I would not categorize this book as one of the horror genre. It was never truly "scary". Fantasy/Science Fiction would be more appropriate. I am truly glad to have experienced this story and would highly recommend it.
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