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William Hope Hodgson

1877 - 1918

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William Hope Hodgson (15 November 1877 – 19 April 1918) 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. Hodgson used his experiences at sea to lend authentic detail to his short horror stories, many of which are set on the ocean, including his series of linked tales forming the "Sargasso Sea Stories". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Hope Hodgson has received more than 386,845 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). William Hope Hodgson is the 3,385th most popular writer (down from 3,329th in 2019), the 2,427th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,466th in 2019) and the 276th most popular British Writer.

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Notable Works

The House on the Borderland
Classic Literature, Fiction, Horror
The House on the Borderland is a supernatural horror novel by William Hope Hodgson. He went beyond the existing ghost story and gothic molds, synthesizing a new cosmic horror that made a huge impact on later writers of weird tales, notably H. P. Lovecraft. The two gentlemen Tonnison and Berreggnog head to a village in Ireland for a week's fishing. There they discover the ruins of a strange house and the diary of the house's former occupant, the words on its torn pages hinting at an evil far beyond anything that has existed in this world before.
1946
The Night Land Volume 1
Classic Literature, Fantasy, Fiction
Described by H. P. Lovecraft as being "one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written", The Night Land is a classic horror fantasy novel by William Hope Hodgson published in 1912. Telling the story of a dying earth, The Night Land starts with a man from the 17th century who, mourning the death of his true love, is given a vision through the eyes his future incarnation. In that distant time Earth is only dimly lit by the remaining glow of the dead Sun. The last millions of the human race cluster together inside the Last Redoubt, a huge metal pyramid, and are set upon by mysterious forces from the dark outside. Leaving the protection of their refuge means certain death, but our narrator makes mind contact with a survivor in a forgotten Lesser Redoubt. He must journey alone through the evil darkness to find her, knowing that she is the reincarnation of his past precious love.Writer Clark Ashton Smith said that "In all literature, there are few works so sheerly remarkable, so purely creative, as The Night Land...it impresses the reader as being the ultimate saga of a perishing cosmos, the last epic of a world beleaguered by eternal night and by the unvisageable spawn of darkness. Only a great poet could have conceived and written this story; and it is perhaps not illegitimate to wonder how much of actual prophecy may have been mingled with the poesy."
1976
Carnacki The Ghost Finder
2006
The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"
1971
The Ghost Pirates
Ghosts, Pirates, Adventure
"The old ship, the *Mortzestus*, is beset by mysterious phenomena - - shadowy figures emerging from the sea, men hurled from aloft by invisible hands and the vessel itself seemingly trapped in a world of mist. The horrors reach a climax when ghost pirates swarm aboard to sink the ship and only one man survives to tell the story." - - Description by Peter Haining, in "A Century of Ghost Novels 1900 - 2000" (Appendix to his book, The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories)
1909
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
1947

Among WRITERS

Among writers, William Hope Hodgson ranks 3,385 out of 7,302. Before him are Herman Grimm, Oswald de Andrade, Boris Polevoy, Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao, Armen Ohanian, and Jean Effel. After him are Mika Antić, Charles Lamb, Juan Boscán Almogáver, Salomėja Nėris, Willibald Alexis, and Leopoldo Lugones.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, William Hope Hodgson ranks 100. Before him are Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, Princess Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Wehib Pasha, Hélène Dutrieu, Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, and Otto Herschmann. After him are Joanni Perronet, Luigi Maglione, Giuseppe Volpi, Mordechai Gebirtig, Edmund Gwenn, and Elin Pelin. Among people deceased in 1918, William Hope Hodgson ranks 112. Before him are Meshadi Azizbekov, Ivan Puluj, Wilfred Owen, Károly Khuen-Héderváry, Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, and Malak Hifni Nasif. After him are George Lawrence Price, Albert Ballin, Robbie Ross, Peter Rosegger, Margit Kaffka, and Ulisse Dini.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Hope Hodgson ranks 2,427 out of 8,785. Before him are Terry-Thomas (1911), Alfred Fowler (1868), Leslie Phillips (1924), Delroy Lindo (1952), Edwin Lutyens (1869), and Richard Cobden (1804). After him are Pete Burns (1959), Charles Lamb (1775), Terence Davies (1945), William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford (1768), Philip Catherine (1942), and Richard Bremmer (1953).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, William Hope Hodgson ranks 276. Before him are Peter Mayle (1939), Anna Sewell (1820), Arnold Wesker (1932), David Crystal (1941), John Ford (1586), and Vera Brittain (1893). After him are Charles Lamb (1775), John Henry Mackay (1864), Grace Elliott (1754), J. B. Priestley (1894), John Osborne (1929), and John Evelyn (1620).

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