The House on the Borderland

The House on the Borderland is a horror novel by British writer William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1908. The book tells the story of two fishermen who find an old journal in a remote place in Ireland. The journal gives an account of an old man who has been living with his sister in a very old house - from the introduction written, it becomes clear that not only do the local people think the old man is mad, but also that the house, with it's unusual design, has a reputation for being evil. The old man recounts in his writings how he is taken to strange otherworldly dimensions, encounters weird supernatural creatures, and experiences extreme shifts in time. Considered a milestone in horror writing, and one that departed from the popular gothic horror of the late nineteenth century.

This book has 51,277 words, and was originally published in 1908.