{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "The House on the Borderland is a supernatural horror novel by William Hope Hodgson. He went beyond the existing ghost story and gothic molds, synthesizing a new cosmic horror that made a huge impact on later writers of weird tales, notably H. P. Lovecraft. The two gentlemen Tonnison and Berreggnog head to a village in Ireland for a week's fishing. There they discover the ruins of a strange house and the diary of the house's former occupant, the words on its torn pages hinting at an evil far beyond anything that has existed in this world before."}, "covers": [542561, 6874429, 1816681, 13522500, 8990626, 10368459, 12622266], "key": "/works/OL810402W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL68313A"}}], "title": "The House on the Borderland", "subjects": ["Classic Literature", "Fiction", "Horror", "Science Fiction", "Fiction, science fiction, general", "Fiction, fantasy, general", "Ireland, fiction", "Fiction, visionary & metaphysical", "Fiction, horror", "English Fantasy fiction", "Fantasy", "Lovecraftian", "Children's fiction", "Mystery and detective stories"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subject_places": ["Ireland"], "first_publish_date": "1990", "subject_times": ["Around the turn of the 20th Century but echoes back to a distant past that travels beyond Betelguese."], "dewey_number": ["823.912", "823/.912"], "lc_classifications": ["PR6015.O253 H68 2008"], "latest_revision": 19, "revision": 19, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T04:37:41.572304"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-08-17T03:43:10.637300"}}