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Looking for William Hope Hodgson books? Hodgson (1877-1918) was an English sailor turned writer whose sea horror shaped weird fiction before H. P. Lovecraft made it famous.

Here you'll find his novels, Carnacki the Ghost Finder and his best sea stories. He went to sea at 13 and once saved a sailor in shark-filled waters, so his ocean scenes feel real.

All 10 books are free to read online or download as PDF. Start with The House on the Borderland, the cosmic horror novel Lovecraft praised above almost any other.

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Novels

William Hope Hodgson Novels

William Hope Hodgson wrote his novels between 1907 and 1912, and each one takes horror somewhere new. The Ghost Pirates stays at sea, while The House on the Borderland and The Night Land open onto cosmic time and a dying Earth.

  • The House on the Borderland

    The House on the Borderland

    Two travelers find a diary in the ruins of a house in the west of Ireland, written by a recluse besieged by swine creatures from a pit and then swept to the death of the solar system. The cosmic horror novel H. P. Lovecraft praised above almost any other.

    William Hope Hodgson

    Format: PDF 263 pages 1.64 MB
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  • The Night Land

    The Night Land

    Millions of years from now the sun has died and the last humans live inside a vast metal pyramid, watched by monsters in the dark. One young man leaves its safety to cross the Night Land and find the woman he loved in another life.

    William Hope Hodgson

    Format: PDF 445 pages 1.19 MB
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  • The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"

    The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"

    Shipwreck survivors drift in open boats past a land of weeping trees and into a weed-choked sea where something hunts them every night. Hodgson's first novel, told in the voice of an 18th-century sailor.

    William Hope Hodgson

    Format: PDF 156 pages 1.6 MB
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  • The Ghost Pirates

    The Ghost Pirates

    Jessop signs on to the Mortzestus and soon learns why the last crew deserted: shadowy figures climb out of the sea, and the ship seems caught between two worlds. A tense, relentless novel of horror at sea.

    William Hope Hodgson

    Format: PDF 168 pages 1.81 MB
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  • The Dream of X

    The Dream of X

    Hodgson cut The Night Land from 200,000 words to about 20,000 and framed it as fragments rescued from a fire, the story of a man who dreams himself into the far future. The quickest way into his dying-Earth vision.

    William Hope Hodgson

    Format: PDF 53 pages 0.33 MB
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Short Stories

Carnacki and Other Short Stories

Carnacki is an occult detective who fights ghosts with an electric pentacle, while the sea tales bring derelict ships and the weed of the Sargasso Sea. Start with The Voice in the Night, his most adapted story and the basis of the Japanese film Matango.

  • Carnacki, the Ghost Finder

    Carnacki, the Ghost Finder

    Six cases of Thomas Carnacki, the occult detective who faces haunted rooms with an electric pentacle and a camera, from The Gateway of the Monster to The Whistling Room. Each one is told over dinner to his friends in Chelsea.

    William Hope Hodgson

    Format: PDF 152 pages 1.67 MB
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  • Men of the Deep Waters

    Men of the Deep Waters

    Ten tales of the sea, with derelict ships that come alive, a message from the Sargasso Sea and the famous The Voice in the Night. Hodgson's sea horror at its strongest, with a few of his poems along the way.

    William Hope Hodgson

    Format: PDF 205 pages 1.07 MB
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  • The Voice in the Night

    The Voice in the Night

    On a becalmed night in the North Pacific, a voice from a small boat begs for food and tells how a strange grey fungus took over an island and the two castaways on it. Hodgson's most adapted story, the basis of the Japanese film Matango.

    William Hope Hodgson

    Format: PDF 17 pages 0.11 MB
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  • The Luck of the Strong

    The Luck of the Strong

    Sea adventures and a few horrors from 1916, with con artists, hard-case skippers and The Stone Ship, where a crew boards a vessel risen from the ocean floor. Fast, salty stories with plenty of humor.

    William Hope Hodgson

    Format: PDF 318 pages 6.56 MB
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  • Captain Gault

    Captain Gault

    The private log of a sea captain who smuggles everything from jewels to saccharine past customs men, spies and suspicious passengers. Ten light-hearted tales that show Hodgson's comic side.

    William Hope Hodgson

    Format: PDF 294 pages 12.98 MB
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Hodgson was killed near Ypres in 1918, at 40, but his weird fiction still shapes horror writers today. Once you finish these, the H. P. Lovecraft books are the natural next step.

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