Appendix Z - William
Hope Hodgson
He
is a terrifying writer. More so I think than CAS whose prose is more like
poetry and equal to Lovecraft at his most frightening. Another spiritual father
of the Weird Tales writers, his 'Boats of the Glen Carrig', Nightlands, House
on the Borderlands, and The Ghost Pirates set their own standards for strange
and disturbing fiction. Each of these 4 novels takes a different tack on horror
though all done with Hodgson's talent and imagination.
His
major works are available free on kindle and I believe his complete works are
$1.99 (though they are all public domain so free versions may be available).
(Sam
Gafford posts a wonderful WHH blog on wordpress that is well worth reading).
Note:
This a wiki list so take it with a grain of salt as far as completeness or
accuracy.
Novels
The
Boats of the "Glen Carrig" (1907)
The
House on the Borderland (1908)
The
Ghost Pirates (1909)
The
Night Land (1912)
Short
Stories
"The
Goddess of Death" (1904)
"Terror
of the Water-Tank" (1907)
"Bullion"
(1911)
"The
Mystery of the Water-Logged Ship" (1911)
"The
Ghosts of the Glen Doon" (1911)
"Mr.
Jock Danplank" (1912 )
"The
Mystery of Captain Chappel" (1917 )
"The
Home-Coming of Captain Dan" (1918 )
"Merciful
Plunder" (1925)
"The
Haunting of the Lady Shannon" (1975)
"The
Heathen's Revenge" (1988)
"A
Tropical Horror" (1905)
"The
Voice in the Night" (1907)
"The
Derelict" (1912)
"Eloi
Eloi Lama Sabachthani" ("The Baumoff Explosive" 1919)
"The
Shamraken Homeward-Bounder"
"Out
of the Storm"
"The
Albatross"
"The
'Prentices' Mutiny"
"The
Island of the Crossbones"
"The
Stone Ship"
"The
Regeneration of Captain Bully Keller"
"The
Mystery of Missing Ships"
"We
Two and Bully Dunkan"
"The
Haunted Pampero"
"The
Real Thing: 'S.O.S.'"
"Jack
Grey, Second Mate"
"The
Smugglers"
"In
the Wailing Gully"
"The
Girl with the Grey Eyes"
"Kind,
Kind and Gentle Is She"
"A
Timely Escape"
"The
Homecoming of Captain Dan"
"On
the Bridge"
"Through
the Vortex of a Cyclone"
"A
Fight with a Submarine"
"In
the Danger Zone"
"Old
Golly"
"Demons
of the Sea"
"The
Wild Man of the Sea"
"The
Habitants of Middle Islet"
"The
Riven Night"
"The
Heaving of the Log"
"The
Sharks of the St. Elmo"
"Sailormen"
"By
the Lee"
"The
Captain of the Onion Boat"
"The
Sea-Horses"
"The
Valley of Lost Children"
"Date
1965: Modern Warfare"
"My
House Shall Be Called the House of Prayer"
"Judge
Barclay's Wife"
"How
the Honorable Billy Darrell Raided the Wind"
"The
Friendship of Monsieur Jeynois"
"The
Inn of the Black Crow"
"What
Happened in the Thunderbolt"
"How
Sir Jerrold Treyn Dealt with the Dutch in Caunston Cove"
"Jem
Binney and the Safe at Lockwood Hall"
"Diamond
Cut Diamond with a Vengeance"
"The
Room of Fear"
"The
Promise"
Sargasso
Sea stories
"From
the Tideless Sea Part One"
"The
Mystery of the Derelict"
"The
Thing in the Weeds"
"The
Finding of the Graiken"
"The
Call in the Dawn" ("The Voice in the Dawn")
Carnacki
stories
"The
Thing Invisible"
"The
Gateway of the Monster"
"The
House Among the Laurels"
"The
Whistling Room"
"The
Searcher of the End House"
"The
Horse of the Invisible"
"The
Haunted Jarvee"
"The
Find"
"The
Hog"
Captain
Jat stories
"The
Island of the Ud"
"The
Adventure of the Headland"
Captain
Gault stories
"Contraband
of War"
"The
Diamond Spy"
"The
Red Herring"
"The
Case of the Chinese Curio Dealer"
"The
Drum of Saccharine"
"From
Information Received"
"The
German Spy"
"The
Problem of the Pearls"
"The
Painted Lady"
"The
Adventure of the Garter"
"My
Lady's Jewels"
"Trading
with the Enemy"
"The
Plans of the Reefing Bi-Plane"
D.C.O.
Cargunka stories
"The
Bells of the Laughing Sally"
"The
Adventure with the Claim Jumpers"
Selected
short story collections
Carnacki,
the Ghost-Finder
Men
of the Deep Waters
The
Luck of the Strong
Captain
Gault, Being the Exceedingly Private Log of a Sea-Captain
Carnacki,
the Ghost-Finder
Poems
"Amanda
Panda"
"Beyond
the Dawning"
"Billy
Ben"
"Bring
Out Your Dead"
"The
Calling of the Sea"
"Down
the Long Coasts"
"Eight
Bells"
"Grey
Seas are Dreaming of My Death"
"The
Hell! Oo! Chaunty"
"I
Come Again"
"I
Have Borne My Lord a Son"
"Listening"
"Little
Garments"
"Lost"
"Madre
Mia"
"Mimosa"
"The
Morning Lands"
"My
Babe, My Babe"
"Nevermore"
"The
Night Wind"
"O
Parent Sea"
"The
Pirates"
"The
Place of Storms"
"Rest"
"The
Ship"
"The
Sobbing of the Freshwater"
"The
Song of the Great Bull Whale"
"Song
of the Ship"
"Speak
Well of the Dead"
"Storm"
"Thou
Living Sea"
"To
My Father"
"The
Voice of the Ocean"
"Shoon
of the Dead"
"Who
Make Their Bed in Deep Waters"
Poetry
collections
The
Calling of the Sea
The
Voice of the Ocean
Poems
of the Sea
The
Lost Poetry of William Hope Hodgson
A Tropical Horror is my favorite. intense pulp suspense.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I've read that one. Other than the big 4 stories I am deficient in my Hodgson reading. so far it is Boats of the Glen Carrig for #1 and House on the Borderlands fpr #4. I read some Carnacki but I have to sort out who I am thinking of because there are some M.R. James, Le Fanu and Blackwood that I may be confusing them with.
ReplyDeleteBoats of the Glen Carrig is a pretty creepy tale, House on the Borderland would make a great film...I used to have the Richard Corben-illustrated version and it was appropriately bizarro.
ReplyDeleteThere is some film (something like a hammer horror) that must have used boats of the Glen Carrig as inspiration. I remember it as being pretty cool.
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