Wildside Classics: The House on the Borderland (Hardcover)

from electrascaife

*very slight spoilers ahead* If Edgar Allan Poe and George Romero had a child in whom they were both slightly disappointed because he had fallen in with Stanley Kubrick and lots of psychedelic substances, it would be this book. A fever dream populated with possibly time-travelling pig men, a hou...

from jseger9000

The House on the Borderland (1908) is a landmark in horror fiction. An obvious inspiration to Lovecraft and a bunch of his Weird Tales cronies. It broke away from the old Gothic horrors and introduced cosmic terror. A couple of guys on a sporting holiday in secluded Northern Ireland stumble acros...

from Jannes

An odd mix of speculative cosmic horror, gothic mystery and monster horror story. More interesting than good, I suppose. In my somewhat limited experience it feels proto-Lovecraftian, but I suspect that might be reductive. Some passages are genuinely chilling, while others is obtuse and a slog to...

from Kristelh

Story written in 1908 about a recluse living in a house on the Borderland. The story is on the surface about a place that is built over a pit where swine like beast live. The man fights of the beast then has a couple of time travels where he visits his lost love and another where he sees the end ...

from nsenger

The House on the Borderland is an eerie novel that ultimately leaves many questions unanswered. Written in 1908, it is often cited as an influence on writers like H.P. Lovecraft and Terry Pratchett, and it is listed in Fantasy: The 100 Best Books, edited by James Cawthorn and Michael Moorcock. I ...