La casa sull'abisso by William Hope Hodgson

Barely traceable story elements suggest these parts are interconnected, but only very faintly, and again much to be imagined. The first is the long coherent story of the siege by the swain-things, and the other is the jump to the end of time. However, among the five episodes, two major parts stand out. 14) breaks up into fragments and has a dreamlike quality. The presence of the sister and her behavior suggests that all events only exist in the mind of the narrator. The story consists of five episodes that seem to be interconnected, but their interconnectedness is possibly just imagined. The landscape of the overgrown garden, the house (unseen) and some other aspects of the landscape appear as echos in the story in the manuscript, in the dreams of the writer of the manuscript, in the dream of the man and in the landscape of the setting of the top frame.Īlthough the manuscript and the story seem to suggest fact, very little in the story is factual, and it often seems all of it only happens in the imagination of the main character, to the effect that subtle self-doubt makes the reader wonder about the sanity of the main character. In what appears to be an overgrown garden belonging to a lost estate they discover the manuscript. It is the story of two men travelling to an area where they encounter suspicious local. Each of these sections is preceded by a poem, with a footnote saying the second poem was found written in pencil on the fly-leaf of the manuscript.

An introduction to the manuscript precedes the table of contents, followed by chapter 1 describing the discovery of the manuscript. The house on the borderland has a layered story frame. He is most widely remembered for two works, The house on the borderland (1908) being one of them. William Hope Hodgson was a prolific writer, mainly of horror, fantastic fiction, and science fiction, and many of his stories involve adventures at sea.

Nonetheless, I do ocassionally read novels belonging to each of these categories, usually when they are considered classics. Firstly, I should say that I am not very interested in science fiction and fantasy novels, neither do I like the genre of horror and detective.

La casa sull'abisso by William Hope Hodgson