The House on the Borderland
William Hope Hodgson, Max Gersh
Paperback
(Perfect Crime Books, Oct. 23, 2010)
William Hope Hodgson's 1908 classic fantasy, with an introduction by Max Gersh. An ancient house in the wilds of Ireland opens onto a pit of cosmic horror. A reclusive man, who tells us nothing of himself or his sister, is besieged by swine creatures from the pit, which spread a phosphorescent infection that lays waste to any living thing. As the narrator's grip loosens, he envisions an end in a distant future to the earth and the sun, succeeded by the cold emptiness of a dead cosmos.