The Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson

A creepy collection of 10 unsettling horror stories from a master storyteller

The splash from something enormous resounds through the sea-fog. In the stillness of a dark room, some unspeakable evil is making its approach. . .

Abandon the safety of the familiar with 10 nerve-wracking episodes of horror penned by master of atmosphere and suspense, William Hope Hodgson.

From encounters with abominations at sea to fireside tales of otherworldly forces recounted by occult detective Carnacki, this new selection offers the most unsettling of Hodgson's weird stories, guaranteed to terrorize the steeliest of constitutions.

William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was a key figure in British weird fiction, renowned for tales of horror and adventure at sea as well as his post-apocalyptic fantasy novel The Night Land. Following his death near Ypres during World War I, his stories continued to be published posthumously throughout the 20th century. Xavier Aldana Reyes is the editor of Horror: A Literary History.

Introduction 7
Acknowledgements 13
A Tropical Horror (1905) 15
The Voice in the Night (1907) 27
Out of the Storm (1909) 43
The Gateway of the Monster (1910) 49
The Horse of the Invisible (1910) 75
The Whistling Room (1910) 105
The Derelict (1912) 127
The Thing in the Weeds (1916) 159
The Hog (1947) 177
The Riven Night (1973) 227