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Reader and Collector, v. 3, issue 3, June 1944
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8. WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON by August Derleth Guggenheim Fellow in 1938. Lecturer in American Regional Literature at University of Wisconsin. Author of twenty or more volumes of verse, detective novels and prose fiction. For many years a contributor to Weird Tales magazine. A collection of his best short weird tales were published under the title "Someone in the Dark", published in 1941 by Arkham House. William Hope Hodgson is one of the most neglected men in the field of the mystic and weird. Certainly the Famous Fantastic Mysteries publication of Hodgson is a step in the right direction, even if the stories have been woefully cut in some cases. I think it is not far wrong if it is wrong at all to suggest that no one else has quite the same approach and effect as Hodgson, particularly in such novels as "The Night Land" and "The House on the Borderland". He manages to convey an extra-sensory perception to his readers, and that is no small accomplishment. I am hoping to see published soon in this country an omnibus of the important Hodgson novels; if Arkham House does not do it, perhaps some other, first-line publisher can be persuaded to take some a book on. He deserves to be far better known among the aficionados, but manifestly out-of-print books across the sea give no comfort to the would-be reader and collector. Hodgson's sense of other worlds (decidedly not in the science-fiction tradition), his feeling for horror of the soul or spirit as apart from grue, his sometimes commonplace but always insidious manner of writing -- all these aspects are distinctly his own, and it is all the more regrettable, this being so, that he has had no worthwhile publication in the U.S. THE GHOST PIRATES "Strange as the glimmer of the ghostly light That shines from some vast crest of wave at night"
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8. WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON by August Derleth Guggenheim Fellow in 1938. Lecturer in American Regional Literature at University of Wisconsin. Author of twenty or more volumes of verse, detective novels and prose fiction. For many years a contributor to Weird Tales magazine. A collection of his best short weird tales were published under the title "Someone in the Dark", published in 1941 by Arkham House. William Hope Hodgson is one of the most neglected men in the field of the mystic and weird. Certainly the Famous Fantastic Mysteries publication of Hodgson is a step in the right direction, even if the stories have been woefully cut in some cases. I think it is not far wrong if it is wrong at all to suggest that no one else has quite the same approach and effect as Hodgson, particularly in such novels as "The Night Land" and "The House on the Borderland". He manages to convey an extra-sensory perception to his readers, and that is no small accomplishment. I am hoping to see published soon in this country an omnibus of the important Hodgson novels; if Arkham House does not do it, perhaps some other, first-line publisher can be persuaded to take some a book on. He deserves to be far better known among the aficionados, but manifestly out-of-print books across the sea give no comfort to the would-be reader and collector. Hodgson's sense of other worlds (decidedly not in the science-fiction tradition), his feeling for horror of the soul or spirit as apart from grue, his sometimes commonplace but always insidious manner of writing -- all these aspects are distinctly his own, and it is all the more regrettable, this being so, that he has had no worthwhile publication in the U.S. THE GHOST PIRATES "Strange as the glimmer of the ghostly light That shines from some vast crest of wave at night"
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