The House on the Borderland

Two men, vacationing in Ireland, come upon a great ruined house, where they find an ancient manuscript. Its author tells a strange tale; transported through unfathomable immensities of space, he comes across an "anti-house," precisely like his own, where strange and evil creatures seek to enter. Back on earth, the same grotesque horrors appear; besieges, he seeks to escape. The horror builds.

And now something even stranger occurs: time itself goes mad, centuries pass in instants, the sun is swallowed by the central sun of the universe, a great sentient star that emits a curious violet light, and sends thought messages everywhere – messages of infinite sadness, for the forces of evil are great.

"The wanderings of the narrator's spirit through limitless light-years of cosmic space and kalpas of eternity, and its witnessing of the solar system's final destruction constitute something almost unique." – H. P. Lovecraft

Now available as part of the British Library Tales of the Weird series with a new introduction by Ann VanderMeer exploring why Hodgson’s tale is the ‘perfect embodiment of a weird novel’, this edition of the 1908 cult classic still thrums with the visionary energy which influenced countless writers including H. P. Lovecraft and Terry Pratchett.