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Hodgson's influence on Lovecraft, and many other writers of weird fiction, is apparent from the start. Borderland opens with a couple of guys on fishing trip in the wilds of Ireland. The setting reminds me a bit of Blackwood's The Willows, with its forbidding wilderness, but also of Dracula's opening, with its nearly alien town folk, who seem to know the land is diseased, bad. Soon a ruined house (mansion?) is stumbled across, and part of a manuscript (I love evil books and manuscripts). But all
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Supposedly one of the predecessors of the modern horror genre. Parts of this were painfully boring. Then the middle part where the man fights off a swarm of some zombie-like pig-men monsters was legitimately terrifying. Then the end was painfully boring again. Long descriptions of flying through time and space became quite tedious.
Nov 01, 2009
Gaijinmama
marked it as to-read
Jul 12, 2019
Deborah
marked it as to-read
