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sabersword · Post by **sabersword** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 8:38 pm

Not really trying to start a new thread, just wanted to ask a question. Along with my love for all things Lovecraft, I ran into a nother writer from the twentys, goes by the name of William Hope Hodgson. You guys ever heard of him? He wrote The Night Land, Boats of the Glen Carrig, The Ghost Pirates and short stories. His work is now obscure and may be hard to find but, if you can fine some of his work, check it out. Very much worth your while to dig some up.

odin2 · Post by **odin2** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 2:41 pm

Yes he is a great writer And like you say well worth the time to dig up some of his works.
But to help those people out who don't want to take the time here are some links...

Here are some of his works online...

http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/h/ ... liam_hope/

And here are Lovecrafts views on Hodgson...

http://home.clara.net/andywrobertson/nighthpl.html

sabersword · Post by **sabersword** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 5:33 pm

I should have known somone on this fourm would of heard of Hodgson. Good to hear from you Odin2. A man after my own bloody hart. Some years ago, I was between jobs and found some of Hodgsons books and spent the whole summer emersed in his and Lovecrafts work. I went back to work at the end of the summer, and found it hard to get back to reality.Ha! And by the way reality sucks.

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 12:35 am

i'll drink to that

CrawlingChaos · Post by **CrawlingChaos** » Fri May 26, 2006 3:39 am

After reading Lovecraft's essay on modern weird fiction, and seeing the Night Land mentioned, I found it online, slapped it on my Pocket PC, and got almost to the end before tiring of the repetitive nature of the story. I then looked further into him, and found The House on the Borderland. THAT was a damn fine story, and on par with Lovecraft's own skills and visionary prowess of cosmic horror and apocalyptic events.

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Fri May 26, 2006 9:16 am

JJ Burke wrote:i'll drink to that

If you're drinking I'm drinking.

Rodr-Evil · Post by **Rodr-Evil** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:07 pm

I have never heard of him, you recommend some book or story? their writings have to do with the Myths?

~anothercell~ · Post by **~anothercell~** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 8:29 am

I have never heard of him,too,but read the stories of him posted above.In my opinion he is a very good writer.

DoubleYuggoth · Post by **DoubleYuggoth** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 11:53 pm

"The Night Land", despite the bizarro writing style and some frankly painful romantic bits in chapters 12, 13, and 14, is incredible. The whole vision of a dead world roamed by monsters, and the Great Redoubt as the last bastion of humanity, is really powerful.

Hodgson · Post by **Hodgson** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:35 pm

Here you can find Night Land, Borderland and several others:
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/h#a3260

Issac Pilgrim · Post by **Issac Pilgrim** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 2:33 am

Hodgsen's Night Land is, in my opinion, the greatest fantasy novel ever written. I know that Titus Groan, The Worm Ouroborus, The Lord of the Rings, A Voyage to Arcturus and The Book of the New Sun are acheivements of genius, and are arguably more sophisticated, but it is precisely the naivity and romanticism and the childlike awe before alien granduer and terror that make Hodgsen's vision so total. And the affected, and occaisionally inaccurate archaism of his style is essential to the potency and vividness of his descriptions.

tsathoggua · Post by **tsathoggua** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:32 pm

YES!!!
FINALLY!!!
LOOK AT THAT POST COUNT!!!
actually its a pathetically small one by comparison to some of the older posters but wtf...i remeber when i was a little 12 poster and i looked at guys like JP and JJ and odin...
*nostalgia*

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