Book description
From the beasts of the pit to the endless terror of the void
A manuscript is found: filled with small, precise writing and
smelling of pit-water, it tells the story of an old recluse and his
strange home and its even stranger, jade-green double, seen by the
recluse on an otherworldly plain where gigantic gods and monsters
roam.
Soon his more earthly home is no less terrible than this bizarre
vision, as swine-like creatures boil from a cavern beneath the ground
and besiege it. But a still greater horror will face the recluse
more inexorable, merciless and awful than any creature that can be
fought or killed.
William Hope Hodgson (1877 1918) was an English author. He produced
a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels,
spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction
and science fiction.
