The House on the Borderland

The novel that changed horror forever. When a manuscript written in strange, precise hand is discovered in an Irish ruin, it tells the account of an old recluse who came to a remote house and witnessed something that broke his mind. Beyond his walls lies a poisoned plain where a jade-green double of his home stands amid titanic gods and monsters beyond comprehension. But the earthly realm offers its own horrors: swine-like creatures boiling from a cavern beneath the ground, besieging the house in a siege of flesh and tusk. Yet these are merely precursors to the true horror - an encounter so vast, so indifferent to human existence, that all of humanity is rendered insignificant. First published in 1908, Hodgson's masterpiece predates and influenced Lovecraft's entire mythos. Terry Pratchett called it "the Big Bang" of his imagination. For readers who hunger for weird fiction that doesn't flinch from the infinite, the incomprehensible, and the profoundly alien.