I see there are 87 different paperback editions alone on Amazon. What's a good quality edition with decent sized text?
This book has a slow-going unsettling weirdness to it all throughout, and suddenly at the end everything collapses theatrically. A very heavy book, but well worth the read. The poetry is beautiful and Hodgson's writing style is distinguishable. Just wanted to throw it out there!
Take it or leave it!
Also known as "The Voice in the Dawn" is the last story in the Sargasso Sea Mythos. I have found the other five stories but have been unable to find this one. I can't even find a synopsis!
Does anyone know where i might find a text document or PDF of "The Call in the Dawn"?
Stories belonging to Hodgson’s Sargasso Sea Mythos are:
- “From the Tideless Sea, Part One”
- “From the Tideless Sea, Part Two” (aka “More News from the Homebird”)
- “The Mystery of the Derelict”
- “The Thing in the Weeds”
- “The Finding of the Graiken”
- “The Call in the Dawn”.
- I would also place the novel, THE BOATS OF THE ‘GLEN CARRIG’, in this company as the Sargasso Sea is the setting for the last half of the book.
All the copies on amazon seem to be of incredibly cheap "self published" quality (not that self published always looks bad, but I mean more along the lines of giant page dimensions and shitty binding). I was wondering where I could find a more professional/quality copy, even an old paperback. I would be open to a collection of Hodgson's work as well! Thanks y'all
Mentioned recently on an episode of Lovecraft Country and praised by Lovecraft himself as a classic of the first water. Though I have been long familiar with Lovecraft as well as August Dereleth and all of the others in that vein I had not heard of Mr. Hodgsons work prior to its mention on Lovecraft Country. So finding a brand new (to me) weird fiction novel naturally I began reading this novel live on Twitch. We have had two sessions so far and we will be concluding the novel this evening if anyone would like to join us. Recordings of the first two sessions are available on both Twitch and Youtube if you want to catch up. After we finish The House on the Borderland I will hold Weird Fiction Fridays every week for more readings from the genre including stories directly from Mr. Lovecraft himself. Twitch accounts are not required to view either the live stream or recordings but if you enjoy the reading and wish to show support Twitch accounts are free and easy to create and then just hit the follow button to show you enjoyed the reading. Recordings will also be posted the same day to Youtube which will also hold the archive of all recorded content going forward.
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/obviouslybedtime
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-E73SZX5my7OMlXpJJ36TQ
Don’t know how kosher it is to link to deals like this here but I saw this today (unaffiliated with it in any way) and jumped all over it, especially since I’ve been reading my way through the CAS collections from the library recently - https://bundleofholding.com/presents/NightShadeWeird - a bundle of those plus William Hope Hodgson and some mythos short story collections. Figured folks here might be interested.
Recently i've read the aforementioned novel by William Hope Hodgson who is deemed as one of the founding fathers of weird fiction. It is written in deliberately archaic English language of 18 century, and tells story about marine crew wrecked on uncharted island inhabited by monsters of unknown nature. The vision of of the nautical horror is so impressive so vivide and precise as well as vague and surreal that this novel claims to be considered as a masterpiece. Style of William Hodgson is realy demanding, you have to posses the taste for antiquarian English in order to enjoy it. The book is pretty much weird, this one of the weirdest books that i've ever read, and i mean it as a compliment
On November 15th 1877 William Hope Hodgson was born. He is best known for The Night Land and The House on the Borderland.
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Wikipedia states that:
>The language and style used are intended to resemble that of the 17th century, though the prose has features characteristic of no period whatsoever: the almost-complete lack of dialogue and proper names, for example.
Hi folks, new to the RPG reddit, but not new to RPGs in the least.
Over the years I've been disheartened that H.P. Lovecraft has gotten 99% of the fame of early 1900's weird fiction writing converted to RPGs (Call of Cthulhu, Trail of Cthulhu, etc. etc, etc...) with the last 1% split between all the rest, especially my dear cabin-boy-turned-sailor-turned-fitness-expert-turned-weird-fiction-author William Hope Hodgson. While Lovecraft gets his own subreddit, Hodgson is left out in the cold. I decided to create a "Grey Seas are Dreaming of my Death", an RPG based on his Sargasso Sea stories to hopefully bring his some more notoriety.
You and your friends will sail into the "Graveyard of the Atlantic" and face off against a panoply of Hodgsonian terrors from giant devil fish to demons of the sea to tropical horrors and fungus humans. It's on Kickstarter now and fully funded, but has plenty more fun things to unlock if you're interested. When the Grey Sea dreams, you best hope it's not about you...
Grey Seas are Dreaming of my Death: A William Hope Hodgson RPG
Also, if you haven't read anything by WHH, do yourself a favor and start with "A Voice in the Night". A lot of people say "House on the Borderlands" is the way to get into him, but starting with his sea stories is a far more accurate view of his works. Really there's no bad way to get into him. If you're looking for some nautical adventure hooks, he's got you covered!
Where to start reading, William Hope Hodgson?
Is it best to start with, The Night Lands? or House on the Boarder-lands?
Perhaps an overview of both may help me out ?
Thanks All
On November 15th 1877 William Hope Hodgson was born. He is best known for The Night Land and The House on the Borderland.
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