The House on the Borderland

The house on the border ( original English Title: The House on the Borderland ) is a 1908 novel by William Hope Hodgson published from the genre Fantastic Literature. It is the most famous work of English writer died in 1918.

In the frame story encounter two anglers to a location in the far west of Ireland ruins. You will discover a manuscript in which the last occupant of the secluded house describes his eerie experiences:

The solitude -seeking protagonist of the story moves into an ancient stone house far away from any human settlement. Shortly after his arrival, then inexplicable incidents. Mysterious forces kidnap him to an unknown planet on the edge of an enormous level exists on the identical stone house. He watches as a giant, upright walking monster with the face of a pig trying to break into the building.

The narrator initially believes to have succumbed to a hallucination. But then his house is attacked by pig -like creatures that seem to come from a nearby ravine with abysmal caves. The intrusions are intense day by day, the situation more and more hopeless. The obvious solution would be to give up the house. Hodgson brings to this position a romantic element of the story. On the Visit of the distant planet of the protagonist meets several times on his deceased lover. These encounters cause him to remain in the house and to defy the attacks.

The inexplicable incidents are not resolved at the end of the novel. The reader has wide room for interpretation. Thanks to the very highly detailed description of travel through space and time at which also the sinking of the earth and the extinction of the sun is described, can be viewed at The House of the border as early science fiction novel.

Expenditure

  • William Hope Hodgson: The House on the border and other fantasy stories. Frankfurt: Insel- Verlag, 1973, ISBN 3-458-05818-4.
  • Literary work
  • Literature ( English )
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Story
  • Novel, epic
  • Horror Literature
  • Fantastic Literature
  • Science fiction literature
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