The House on the Borderland (British Library Tales of the Weird)

I had been staying just within the shadow of the exit of the great rift. Now, without volition on my part, I drifted out of the semi-darkness and began to move slowly―toward the House.

Amidst the din of roaring water, in a chasm where a house once stood in an isolated corner of Ireland, a manuscript is discovered entitled The House on the Borderland. Penned by the enigmatic Recluse, it tells of a revelatory descent into the uncanny.

For the Recluse seems to have discovered:

• Another land
• Another House: a jade-green double of his own
• A realm rife with beasts and cosmic beings without name, encroaching on the bounds of reality itself

This edition includes:

• A new introduction by Ann VanderMeer, exploring why Hodgson’s tale is the ‘perfect embodiment of a weird novel’
• The 1908 cult classic, which still thrums with the visionary energy that influenced countless writers, including H. P. Lovecraft