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Books : Literature & Fiction : Authors, A-Z : ( H ) : Hodgson, William Hope
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William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) is acknowledged as one of the undisputed masters of the sea story. There has never been a collection of his very best short stories offered to the trade. Hodgson's sea stories have unusual authenticity owing to his having spent a lot of time on merchant's ships-he left his family in 1890 at the age of thirteen to spend eight years at sea, where the experience of mistreatment, poor pay, and worse food was contrasted by Hodgson's immeasurable fascination with the sea. His obsession for the sea fills his writings. This volume collects the very best of Hodgson's sea stories-which has not been done before-with some of the most exciting and dramatic creatures of fantasy on the written page, exhibiting the sea in all her moods: wonder, mystery, beauty, and terror."This collection brings together the very best of his short stories, together with a sampling of his poetry. It includes a variety of his sea horrors along with two non-fantastic pieces: "On the Bridge," a journalistic story written immediately after the sinking of the Titanic which attempts to show some of the various factors which contributed to the tragedy, and the suspenseful nonfiction story "Through the Vortex of a Cyclone," which is based on Hodgson's own experiences at sea." – From the Introduction by Douglas A. Anderson
"Among connoisseurs of fantasy fiction William Hope Hodgson deserves a high and permanent rank . . . Few can equal him in adumbrating the nearness of nameless forces and monstrous besieging entities through casual hints and significant details, or in conveying feelings of the spectral and abnormal." – H. P. Lovecraft
"Among those fiction writers who have elected to deal with the shadowlands
and borderlands of human existence, William Hope Hodgson surely merits a place with the very few that inform their treatment of such themes with a sense of authenticity." – Clark Ashton Smith
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"One of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written" -- H.P.Lovecraft. Lovecraft wasn't wrong: this is, perhaps, the greatest single work of fantastic fiction in the English language. The sun has died, as have the stars. Not a solitary light shines in the heavens. The days of light are nothing by a legend -- they are a story told to soothe children. The last millions of humans still live in their Last Redoubt -- but the end of their days is at hand.
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The first of a five volume set collecting all of Hodgson's published fiction. Each volume contains one of Hodgson's novels, along with a selection of thematically-linked short fiction. Introduction by Jeremy Lassen The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" The Sargasso Sea Stories * From the Tideless Sea Part 1 * From the Tideless Sea Part 2: More News From the Homebird * The Mystery of the Derelict * The Finding of the Graiken * The Thing in the Weeds * The Call In the Dawn The Exploits of Captain Gault * Contraband of War * From Information Received * The Case of the Curio Dealer * The Diamond Spy * The Drum of Saccharine * The Red Herring * The German Spy * The Painted Lady * The Problem of the Pearls * My Lady's Jewels * The Adventure of the Garter * Trading with the Enemy * The Plans of the Reefing Bi-Plane The Adventures of Captain Jat * The Island of the Ud * Adventure of the Headland Stories of Cargunka * The Bells of the Laughing Sally * The Adventure with the Claim Jumpers A Note On The Texts
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In response to Carnacki's usual card of invitation to have dinner and listen to a story I arrived promptly at 427 Cheyne Walk to find the three others who were always invited to these happy little times there before me. Five minutes later Carnacki Arkright Jessop Taylor and I were all engaged in the "pleasant occupation" of dining.
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16 stories of adventure, mystery, and horror, involving unknown species and mystery animals. Authors include Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, William Hope Hodgson, Ambrose Bierce, A. Hyatt Verrill, and others.
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When I asked fellows to give it a name, they generally could not. All they could tell me, was that she was unlucky, and made thundering long passages, and had no more than a fair share of dirty weather.
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"H'sh!" he muttered, hoarsely, without looking in my direction. Then, all at once, with a quick little gasp, he sprang across the wheel-box, and stood beside me, trembling. His gaze appeared to follow the movements of something I could not see. -- Part three of Glen Carrig.
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Included in this volume of William Hope Hodgson's short fiction are the stories, "On the Bridge," "The Seahorses," "The Derelict," "My House Shall Be Called the House," "From the Tideless Sea," "The Captain of the Onion Boat," "The Voice in the Night," "Through the Vortex of a Cyclone," "The Mystery of the Derelict," and "The Shamraken Homeward-Bounder," and the poems "The Song of the Great Bull Whale," and "Grey Seas Are Dreaming of My Death."
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The fourth of a five volume set collecting all of Hodgson's published fiction. Each volume contains one of Hodgson's novels, along with a selection of thematically-linked short fiction. Introduction by Jeremy Lassen The Night Land # The Captain of the Onion Boat # Smugglers # The Girl with the Grey Eyes # Kind, Kind and Gentle Is She # A Timely Escape A Note On The Texts
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Gothic Horror 1 brings together in one volume the first two books of William Hope Hodgson's "Trilogy" which was an important influence on H.P. Lovecraft. Fast-paced adventure combines with the supernatural to create "The Boats of Glen Garrig." Events unfold with a vivid believability that could only come from an author who has had first-hand experience with danger. Hodgson's early career at sea allows him to write with authority and create an atmosphere of such authenticity that when the malignant forces begin to intrude, they are all the more convincing."The House on the Borderland" is an ancient and crumbling estate, overrun by wild gardens. There resides a man who has a most unusual story to tell--a story that blends horror, fantasy, and science fiction. As a beautifully written work of pure imagination, Hodgson's work has few equals, and has been compared to the writings of Poe, Machen, and Blackwood. As acclaimed horror writer T. E. D. Klein says, "Never has a book so hauntingly conveyed a sense of terrible loneliness and isolation."
Hodgson's Trilogy concludes in Gothic Horror 2 which features "The Ghost Pirates" and also includes the chilling account of "Carnacki The Ghost Finder."
Enjoy a wild ride into the supernatural!
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William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) 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. Early in his writing career he dedicated effort to poetry, although few of his poems were published during his lifetime. He also attracted some notice as a photographer and achieved some renown as a bodybuilder. He began a four-year apprenticeship as a cabin boy in 1891. In 1899, he opened W. H. Hodgson's School of Physical Culture offering tailored exercise regimes for personal training. He wrote articles such as Physical Culture Versus Recreative Exercises (1903). Hodgson turned his attention to fiction, publishing his first short story, The Goddess of Death (1904). In 1906 the American magazine The Monthly Story Magazine published From the Tideless Sea, the first of Hodgson's Sargasso Sea stories. His first published novel, The Boats of the "Glen Carrig", appeared in 1907. Amongst his other works are The House on the Borderland (1908), The Ghost Pirates (1909), Carnacki: The Ghost Finder (1910) and The Night Land (1912).
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Great anthology of classic horror stories.
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collection of horror stories of the sea
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There were rumours that the Mortzestus was haunted. But then when she had sailed two weeks out of Frisco before the fair wind, the crew dismissed them. Then, unaccountably, the rigging went slack. A ghostly form was seen to climb up from the sea.