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The House on the Borderland
By William Hope Hodgson
SEH 3/17/2000
From the Manuscript, discovered in 1877 by Messrs. Tonnison and
Berreggnog, in the Ruins that lie to the South of the Village of Kraighten,
in the West of Ireland. Set out here, with Notes by WILLIAM HOPE
HODGSON
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
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The House On The Borderland -- Contents
Chapter 27
AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION TO THE MANUSCRIPT
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 hand-writing, 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, stiff