Book 55: "The House on the Borderland" by William Hope Hodgson
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 12:44![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittiwakeIt was undoubtedly a portion of a ruined building; yet now I made out that it was not built upon the edge of the chasm itself, as I had first supposed; but perched almost at the extreme end of a huge spur of rock that jutted out some fifty or sixty feet over the abyss. In fact, the jagged mass of ruin was literally suspended in mid-air.
Two friends on a camping and fishing holiday in the West of Ireland find a battered notebook containing an unbelievable story in the ruins of a house suspended over a chasm, and pass it to William Hope Hodgson to edit and publish.
In the notebook, a past owner of the house describes mystical visions in which he travels vast distances through space and time. He also tells of encounters with the mysterious and possibly non-corporeal swine-creatures that attack his house, which seem to come from the bowels of the earth.
I found this an involving story, but not as exciting as his tales of the sea.
Two friends on a camping and fishing holiday in the West of Ireland find a battered notebook containing an unbelievable story in the ruins of a house suspended over a chasm, and pass it to William Hope Hodgson to edit and publish.
In the notebook, a past owner of the house describes mystical visions in which he travels vast distances through space and time. He also tells of encounters with the mysterious and possibly non-corporeal swine-creatures that attack his house, which seem to come from the bowels of the earth.
I found this an involving story, but not as exciting as his tales of the sea.
