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William Hope Hodgson

Lifespan
1877 – 1918
Nationality
British
Active
1907 – 1913
Works held
5

William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) drew on years at sea to write some of the strangest and grandest weird fiction of his age. The House on the Borderland and the vast far-future vision of The Night Land conjure cosmic time and inhuman menace on an enormous scale, and his ‘Carnacki the Ghost-Finder’ tales pioneered the occult detective. Killed at Ypres in the First World War, he was a major and idiosyncratic influence on cosmic horror.

The works

  1. 1913
    Cover of Carnacki, the Ghost Finder Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
  2. 1912
    Cover of The Night Land The Night Land
  3. 1909
    Cover of The Ghost Pirates The Ghost Pirates
  4. 1908
    Cover of The House on the Borderland The House on the Borderland
  5. 1907
    Cover of The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"

Wrote across

1900s1910s

Recurring themes

HorrorAdventurePost-ApocalypticFantasy

Kindred authors shared themes

E. Hoffmann PriceEdmond HamiltonGardner F. FoxPhilip K. DickAnonymousArlo BatesArthur Conan DoyleBryce Walton

Contemporaries writing in the same era

L. Frank BaumEdgar Rice BurroughsH. G. WellsE. NesbitLord DunsanyAlgernon BlackwoodJack LondonLuis SenarensVictor AppletonAnonymous

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