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William Hope Hodgson

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English author (1877–1918) known for weird and cosmic-horror fiction, notable for sea tales and visionary novels such as The House on the Borderland and The Night Land. Influenced later writers including H. P. Lovecraft.

Reviewed pieces note Hodgson's sea-themed stories (Sargasso tales), his influence on Lovecraft, and the existence of Italian editions and critical apparatus by scholars such as Pietro Guarriello. Reviews praise imagination and note stylistic unevenness.

DeBaser reviewers present Hodgson chiefly as a major figure of early 20th-century weird fiction, notable for sea-themed tales and grand cosmic visions. The House on the Borderland and The Night Land are repeatedly highlighted. Reviews celebrate Hodgson's imagination and influence on Lovecraft while noting uneven stylistic moments.

For:Readers of weird fiction, fans of cosmic horror, scholars of early 20th-century speculative literature

 Among the stories present, I certainly consider The Voice in the Dawn a masterpiece: the story is set in the Sargasso Sea and completes the so-called "Tales of the Sargasso Sea" in which he was a master (he knew it from personal experience).

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 If you want to delve deeper into this author, this issue is simply unmissable.

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 William Hope Hodgson is one of the giants of last century's "weird" fiction.

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