The House on the Borderland

Release on 2015-10-222015-10-22 by William Hope Hodgson

Author: William Hope Hodgson

Publisher: 谷月社

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Many are the hours in which I have pondered upon the story that is set forth in the following pages. I trust that my instincts are not awry when they prompt me to leave the account, in simplicity, as it was handed to me. And the MS. itself—You must picture me, when first it was given into my care, turning it over, curiously, and making a swift, jerky examination. A small book it is; but thick, and all, save the last few pages, filled with a quaint but legible handwriting, and writ very close. I have the queer, faint, pit-water smell of it in my nostrils now as I write, and my fingers have subconscious memories of the soft, "cloggy" feel of the long-damp pages. I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown. Amid stiff, abrupt sentences I wandered; and, presently, I had no fault to charge against their abrupt tellings; for, better far than my own ambitious phrasing, is this mutilated story capable of bringing home all that the old Recluse, of the vanished house, had striven to tell. Of the simple, stiffly given account of weird and extraordinary matters, I will say little. It lies before you. The inner story must be uncovered, personally, by each reader, according to ability and desire. And even should any fail to see, as now I see, the shadowed picture and conception of that to which one may well give the accepted titles of Heaven and Hell; yet can I promise certain thrills, merely taking the story as a story...

Fiction

Language: en
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The House on the Borderland

Authors: William Hope Hodgson

Categories: Fiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-22 - Publisher: 谷月社

Language: en
Pages:

Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on the District of Columbia

Authors: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia

Categories: Legislative hearings

Type: BOOK - Published: 1979 - Publisher:

Books about Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on the District of Columbia

Language: en
Pages: 26

Report on the Removal of the House of Industry and other public institutions at South Boston to Deer Island

Authors: BOSTON, Massachusetts. City Council. Joint Standing Committees. Committee on Public Buildings

Categories: Legislative hearings

Type: BOOK - Published: 1847 - Publisher:

Books about Report on the Removal of the House of Industry and other public institutions at South Boston to Deer Island

Language: en
Pages: 232

Cuentos from the House on West Connecticut Avenue

Authors: Marta A. Lomeli

Categories: Fiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-05-03 - Publisher: AuthorHouse

Cuentos from the House on West Connecticut Avenue began as a writing exercise in a teacher’s seminar. The assignment was to write about your first house with as much detail as possible. As I wrote, I remembered and began to lose track of time. That is how the first story,

Language: en
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Speech in the House of Commons Tuesday, April the 23d, 1799, on Seconding the Motion of the Right Honourable the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for the House to Agree with the Lords in an Address to His Majesty Relative to a Union with Ireland

Authors: Sylvester Douglas

Categories: Fiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 1799 - Publisher:

Books about Speech in the House of Commons Tuesday, April the 23d, 1799, on Seconding the Motion of the Right Honourable the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for the House to Agree with the Lords in an Address to His Majesty Relative to a Union with Ireland