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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: 3.77 · 28,961 ratings · 3,479 reviews · 1,520 distinct works • Similar authors

	The House on the Borderland 3.61 avg rating — 8,324 ratings — published 1908 — 1485 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 3.76 avg rating — 2,262 ratings — published 1913 — 840 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 3.52 avg rating — 1,525 ratings — published 1912 — 1618 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' 3.79 avg rating — 1,155 ratings — published 1907 — 420 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 3.57 avg rating — 1,186 ratings — published 1909 — 565 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 3.90 avg rating — 493 ratings — published 1907 — 30 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) 3.92 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 2002 — 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 Collected Fiction, Vol. 1: The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and Other Nautical Adventures 4.16 avg rating — 200 ratings — published 1907 — 14 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 Collected Fiction, Vol. 2: The House on the Borderland and Other Mysterious Places by William Hope Hodgson, Jason Van Hollander 4.15 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 2002 — 11 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 3.74 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 1912 — 16 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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The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson (5 books)
by

William Hope Hodgson,

Douglas A. Anderson (Editor),

Ross E. Lockhart (Goodreads Author) (Introduction)

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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

October is horror month. How about some classic horror? Poll will be open through September 7. As these are shorter titles (none over 300 pages), we will read two. The two titles with the most votes will be our selections.

Carmilla

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3 votes, 60.0%

The Necromancers

Robert Hugh Benson

1 vote, 20.0%

The Lodger

Marie Belloc Lowndes

1 vote, 20.0%

The Witch of Ravensworth

George Brewer

0 votes, 0.0%

The House on the Borderland

William Hope Hodgson

0 votes, 0.0%

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

James Hogg

0 votes, 0.0%

5 total votes

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