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Tonnison and Berreggnog make a fishing holiday to the remote village of Kraighten in rural Ireland. On the third day of their stay, they stumble upon the ruins of a strangely shaped house on a large lake. They discover the moldering journal of the Recluse, an unidentified man who recorded his last days in the house before its destruction. The Recluse begins his journal with descriptions of how he acquired the house, along with his daily life with his sister and his faithful dog, Pepper. He started the diary to record the strange experiences and horrors occurring in and around the house.

Carnaki has a reputation as a ghost hunter. When a house seems haunted by a malignant spirit or a family suffering under a curse, they call for Carnaki, the only man able to help.

"The Night Land" is a classic horror novel by William Hope Hodgson. As a work of fantasy it belongs to the Dying Earth subgenre. When the book was written, the nature of the energy source that powers stars was not known: Lord Kelvin had published calculations based on the hypothesis that the energy came from the gravitational collapse of the gas cloud that had formed the sun and found that this mechanism gave the Sun a lifetime of only a few tens of millions of years.

Our ‘fight of flight’ response is something hardwired into the primitive part of our brain. Our need to survive, to outlive whatever danger poses, that immediate threat to our lives is little short of a marvel. Everything else is abandoned in order to survive. Whilst in modern times that ability has been somewhat modified and ‘reasoned’ away to an extent, in past years it’s what usually kept you alive. In this volume people struggle valiantly to survive and to exist no matter the extent of the threat they face.

In the far future the sun has died and the darkness has become the abode of monsters. Humanity has been driven back to its last redoubt, an eight mile high pyramid of indestructible metal. From the observatory at the peak of the pyramid the Monstruwacans observe the surrounding Night Land to detect and monitor the huge monstrous forces that surround the redoubt. When a young observer telepath starts hearing a woman’s voice in his head he realises that somewhere out there in the dark, there are other humans.

Enter the mysterious and terrifying world of The House on the Borderland by William Hodgson and discover a novel that will keep you on the edge of your seat! Follow the story of a man who becomes trapped in an ancient and otherworldly house, as he confronts the horrors that lurk within its walls. With its atmospheric setting, spine-tingling plot, and themes of cosmic horror, The House on the Borderland is a must-listen for anyone who loves a good horror story. So why wait? Start listening to The House on the Borderland today and let Hodgson's writing terrify and captivate you from start to ...

A gripping collection of outstanding American classic short stories by some of America's greatest writers: 'A Ghost Story' by Mark Twain; 'Pomegranate Seed' by Edith Wharton; 'Pigeons from Hell' by Robert E. Howard; 'Pickman's Model' by H. P. Lovecraft; 'The Adventure of the German Student' by Nathaniel Hawthorne; 'Absolute Zero' by Morgan Robertson; and many more.

"The House on the Borderland," tells the story of an unnamed protagonist who discovers a manuscript written by a previous occupant of a remote and decaying house on the edge of a vast and mysterious abyss. The manuscript details the strange and terrifying experiences of the previous occupant, who is drawn into a world of cosmic horror and ancient evil.

This is a very unusual book, wherein the majority of the story is contents of an ancient diary found by two friends on a fishing holiday while on the grounds of an old dilapidated house. The moldy manuscript has inscribed tales of strange things seen and heard. There are horrible creatures and huge monsters described as though they were old gods of mythology.

Cuando una cámara en una mansión manifiesta un silbido fuerte y misterioso, el Detective Carnacki es llamado para investigar. Hace una búsqueda extremadamente minuciosa de la habitación, pero no puede encontrar ninguna explicación. Es todavía no está convencido del carácter sobrenatural del sonido hasta que sube una escalera y observa la sala: el piso de la sala está arrugado y tiene la forma de un par de enrojecidos y grotescos labios, enrojezca.

Betreten Sie die Welt des kosmischen Horrors mit William Hope Hodgsons bahnbrechendem Roman „Das Haus an der Grenze". Erstmals im Jahr 1908 veröffentlicht, steht dieses erschauernde Hörbuch als ein Eckpfeiler der unheimlichen Literatur, der die Kluft zwischen traditioneller gotischer Literatur und modernem Horror überbrückt. Die Geschichte entfaltet sich durch ein mysteriöses Manuskript, das die erschreckenden Erlebnisse eines Einsiedlers schildert, der in einem abgelegenen Haus in Irland lebt.

Adéntrate en el mundo del horror cósmico con la revolucionaria novela de William Hope Hodgson, "La Casa en la Frontera". Publicada por primera vez en 1908, este escalofriante audiolibro constituye una piedra angular de la ficción extraña, tendiendo un puente entre la literatura gótica tradicional y el horror moderno. La historia se desarrolla a través de un misterioso manuscrito que relata las aterradoras experiencias de un ermitaño que vive en una casa aislada en Irlanda.

A steam yacht is sailing the North Atlantic when they spot a mysterious light. Upon investigation, they discover a derelict cargo ship but when they board, superstitions soon turn to very real fears for the safety of the crew.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. The zenith of Empire is bookended by two catastrophic wars that slaughter vast swathes of humanity. And yet authors manage to record and create fragile libraries of humanity, its talents, its dreams and increasingly its nightmares.

A weird tale that anticipates the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. There's terror on the high seas when crewmen on a ship encounter a man whose body is slowly being absorbed by a gelatinous cosmic horror.

Uncover the enigmatic world of the supernatural with Thomas Carnacki, a fearless detective of the occult, brought to life through the intriguing short stories of William Hope Hodgson. Despite his untimely death at the age of 40 in World War I, Hodgson, renowned for his talents in photography and bodybuilding, left an indelible mark with his creation of Carnacki. This podcast is introduced by Samanem.

En 1913, William Hope Hodgson, publica un libro con las aventuras del primer cazador de fantasmas de la literatura moderna, cuyo protagonista es Thomas Carnacki. Su terror gótico inspiró a otros grandes maestros del género, como Poe o Lovecraft. Carnacki, fuma en pipa y tiene la incorregible costumbre de invitar a cenar sin previo aviso a sus cuatro amigos, Jessop, Arkright, Taylor y Dodgson. Relajados tras la cena, Carnacki relata a sus impresionados invitados sus aventuras contra las fuerzas del más allá. Sus armas: un pentáculo mágico, grimorios y antiguos rituales de libros ...

Una capilla adjunta a una mansión Victoriana contiene una daga antigua, aparentemente maldita, dado que aparentemente ha asesinado a alguien por voluntad propia, y naturalmente, Carnacki es llamado para investigar. Pasa la noche en la capilla de las armadura con su cámara lista para fotografiar cualquier fenómeno misterioso. Toda la noche escucha ruidos misteriosos. Al acercase al altar, la daga casi lo mata. La evidencia fotográfica establece, sin embargo, que hay una explicación racional.

In a world where the Sun has vanished, Earth flickers dimly under the glow of ancient vulcanism. The remnants of humanity have found refuge in the colossal Last Redoubt, an eight-mile-high metal pyramid, besieged by mysterious forces lurking in the shadows. A protective Circle of Energy, known as the air clog, shields them, powered by the enigmatic Earth Current beneath their feet. For eons, colossal beings called the Watchers have awaited their moment, biding their time in the darkness. Beyond the Circle, other remnants of life‚some alien, some perhaps once human‚linger, and leaving the ...

One Voice Recordings presents its premiere recording of William Hope Hogdson's ghost story, "Carnacki The Ghost Finder: Gateway of the Monster"Carnacki's profession and delight is the eerie art and science of tracking down and dealing with the supernatural, and then relating his latest experience to an attentive group of friends...gathered together for just this purpose.