William Hope Hodgson (1877 1918) was an English writer of weird fiction, horror, and fantasy whose strange, sea-haunted imagination produced some of the most original works of the early twentieth century. A former sailor and celebrated physical culturist, he drew on his years at sea for eerie maritime tales and ventured into cosmic terror with novels such as The House on the Borderland and The Night Land, both admired by H. P. Lovecraft. He was killed in action at Ypres during the First World War, cutting short a singular literary career.
