William Hope Hodgson

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born

November 15, 1877 in Blackmore End, Essex, The United Kingdom

died

April 01, 1918

gender

male

website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hope_Hodgs...

genre

Horror, Weird Fiction

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William Hope Hodgson (15 November 1877 – April 1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction and science fiction. Early in his writing career he dedicated effort to poetry, although few of his poems were published during his lifetime. He also attracted some notice as a photographer and achieved some renown as a bodybuilder. He died in World War I in Ypres at the age of 40.

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Average rating: 3.79 · 2,508 ratings · 362 reviews · 118 distinct works

	The House on the Borderland 3.73 avg rating — 764 ratings — published 1907 — 78 editions	My rating:
	The Night Land 3.70 avg rating — 215 ratings — published 1912 — 46 editions	My rating:
	Carnacki, The Ghost Finder 3.75 avg rating — 223 ratings — published 1910 — 45 editions	My rating:
	The Ghost Pirates 3.45 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 1909 — 39 editions	My rating:
	The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' 3.82 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1907 — 33 editions	My rating:
	The House on the Borderland and Other Mysterious Places by William Hope Hodgson, Jason Van Hollander 4.13 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and Other Nautical Adventures (The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson, Vol. 1) by William Hope Hodgson, Jason Van Hollander 4.09 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1907	My rating:
	Adrift on The Haunted Seas: The Best Short Stories of William Hope Hodgson 4.03 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	The Ghost Pirates and Other Revenants of the Sea: The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson, Volume 3 by William Hope Hodgson, Jason Van Hollander (Artist) 4.17 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	The Night Land and Other Perilous Romances: The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson by William Hope Hodgson, Jeremy Lassen (Editor), Jason Van Hollander (Artist) 4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2006	My rating:

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“I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.”
― William Hope Hodgson

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