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The House on the Borderland
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This is a story about an ancient manuscript found by two men on a camping trip. The manuscript actually is the story. I'm not going into the plot itself as the description already does that, but I did want to mention a few things.
The story was a bit slow to start out, and there was a long sort of boring out of body experience. Even though I found this part a bit long winded, I can see the seeds of Lovecraft's Cthulu mythos within.(Lovecraft has said that William Hope Hodgson was a big influence on him). After the protagonist returns to his body things go bat-shit crazy. There are some phenomenally scary scenes and wild things going on.
Then, another long interval (another OOB experience?) that was just weird. I enjoyed this section because it really delved into space. The amount of knowledge displayed by this author about our solar system and how it works is amazing since this book was written in the early 1900s.
All in all though, I enjoyed this story. I would recommend it to anyone interested in Lovecraft.
The story was a bit slow to start out, and there was a long sort of boring out of body experience. Even though I found this part a bit long winded, I can see the seeds of Lovecraft's Cthulu mythos within.(Lovecraft has said that William Hope Hodgson was a big influence on him). After the protagonist returns to his body things go bat-shit crazy. There are some phenomenally scary scenes and wild things going on.
Then, another long interval (another OOB experience?) that was just weird. I enjoyed this section because it really delved into space. The amount of knowledge displayed by this author about our solar system and how it works is amazing since this book was written in the early 1900s.
All in all though, I enjoyed this story. I would recommend it to anyone interested in Lovecraft.
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Reading Progress
March 29, 2012
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Started Reading
March 29, 2012
– Shelved
March 30, 2012
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Finished Reading
March 31, 2012
– Shelved as:
classics-read
June 9, 2016
– Shelved as:
classic-horror
June 9, 2016
– Shelved as:
cosmic-horror
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Mar 31, 2012 10:14AM
An odd book isn't it? Those pig creatures are very disturbing...
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I know, right? One minute we're floating off in space somewhere,and the next? Barricaded in, surround by bizarre, white, swine-things. It was a trip.
Randolph wrote: "I liked the review but can't agree with your rating."Thanks, Randolph! You definitely would not like the 1 star review I recently saw elsewhere.
I tried to explain the importance this book had and the influence it had on authors through the decades, but I probably failed.
