The House on the Borderland

This was my second book of the month of Octoer (even if I actually started it earlier than Left Hand of Darkness) and the spookiest of the three. It’s all about cosmic horror, existential dread, fear of the unknown and all of that mumbo jumbo that is often attributed to H.P. Lovecraft but well, it actually comes from here! This is an earlier work by William Hope Hodgson, published in 1908 and doing a lot of heavy-lifting for the genre already! A novel that starts out with two rather unimportant characters who end up lost and find an old notebook after exploring the remains of some old building. The ancient manuscript details the experiences of an old man—our protagonist and unreliable narrator—who lives in a house… on the borderland. The rest of the book is pretty much just the found text, with a couple of footnotes here and there from the characters reacting to it. All we get is the perspective of this old man as he goes through plenty of supernatural experiences, involving…

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