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William Hope Hodgson

Born

in Blackmore End, Essex, England, The United Kingdom

November 15, 1877

Died

April 19, 1918

Genre

Horror, Weird Fiction, Fantasy

Influences

Algernon Blackwood, Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle, ...more

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William Hope Hodgson 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. Hodgson served with the British Army durng World War One. He died, at age 40, at Ypres, killed by German artillery fire.

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Average rating: 3.74 · 38,487 ratings · 5,053 reviews · 1,068 distinct works • Similar authors

	The House on the Borderland 3.57 avg rating — 12,239 ratings — published 1908 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Carnacki, the Ghost Finder 3.73 avg rating — 2,637 ratings — published 1913 — 459 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Night Land 3.46 avg rating — 2,009 ratings — published 1912	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' 3.75 avg rating — 1,446 ratings — published 1907 — 148 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ghost Pirates 3.60 avg rating — 1,431 ratings — published 1909 — 586 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Voice in the Night 3.87 avg rating — 807 ratings — published 1907 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The House on the Borderland and Other Novels by William Hope Hodgson, China Miéville (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.87 avg rating — 272 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and Other Nautical Adventures (The Collected Fiction, Vol. 1) 4.16 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 1907 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The House on the Borderland and Other Mysterious Places (The Collected Fiction, Vol. 2) by William Hope Hodgson, Jeremy Lassen (Introduction) 4.15 avg rating — 230 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Derelict 3.73 avg rating — 241 ratings — published 1912 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by William Hope Hodgson

The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson (5 books)
by

William Hope Hodgson,

Douglas A. Anderson (Editor),

Ross E. Lockhart (Goodreads Author) (Introduction)

4.17 avg rating — 694 ratings

Carnacki, il cacciatore di fantasmi (7 books)
by

William Hope Hodgson,

Alessandro Castellucci (Narrator),

Librinpillole (Narrator)

3.36 avg rating — 45 ratings

Quotes by William Hope Hodgson (?)

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

tags: reading, the-unknown

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“There had stood a great house in the centre of the gardens, where now was left only that fragment of ruin. This house had been empty for a great while; years before his—the ancient man's—birth. It was a place shunned by the people of the village, as it had been shunned by their fathers before them. There were many things said about it, and all were of evil. No one ever went near it, either by day or night. In the village it was a synonym of all that is unholy and dreadful.”
― William Hope Hodgson, The House on the Borderland

tags: haunted-house, horror

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“And, suddenly, it came home to me that I was a little man in a little ship, in the midst of a very great sea.”
― William Hope Hodgson, The William Hope Hodgson Megapack: 35 Classic Works

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Polls

May 2025 - Short Story/Novella Poll

The Machine Stops E.M. Forster

22 votes, 20.0%

The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens

19 votes, 17.3%

Stancliffe's Hotel by Charlotte Brontë

18 votes, 16.4%

The Lottery in Babylon by Jorge Luis Borges found in The Garden of Forking Paths

15 votes, 13.6%

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

12 votes, 10.9%

Silent Snow, Secret Snow by Conrad Aiken

7 votes, 6.4%

The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson

6 votes, 5.5%

A Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce

6 votes, 5.5%

Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

5 votes, 4.5%

Michael Kohlhaas: A Tale from an Old Chronicle by Heinrich von Kleist

0 votes, 0.0%

110 total votes

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