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House on the Borderland

Public domain audiobook

House on the Borderland

by William Hope Hodgson

English· 5:22:20· 27 chapters
In 1877, two gentlemen, Messrs Tonnison and Berreggnog, head into Ireland to spend a week fishing in the village of Kraighten. While there, they discover in the ruins of a very curious house a diary of the man who had once owned it. Its torn pages seem to hint at an evil beyond anything that existed on this side of the curtains of impossibility. This is a classic novel that worked to slowly bridge the gap between the British fantastic and supernatural authors of the later 19th century and modern horror fiction. Classic American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft lists this and other works by Hodgson among his greatest influences. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    01 - Author's Introduction & The Finding of the Manuscript

    25:17
  2. Chapter 2

    02 - The Plain of Silence

    12:05
  3. Chapter 3

    03 - The House in the Arena

    13:17
  4. Chapter 4

    04 - The Earth

    06:57
  5. Chapter 5

    05 - The Thing in the Pit

    14:09
  6. Chapter 6

    06 - The Swine-Things

    19:32
  7. Chapter 7

    07 - The Attack

    11:06
  8. Chapter 8

    08 - After the Attack

    09:30
  9. Chapter 9

    09 - In the Cellars

    07:55
  10. Chapter 10

    10 - The Time of Waiting

    06:38
  11. Chapter 11

    11 - The Searching of the Gardens

    13:53
  12. Chapter 12

    12 - The Subterranean Pit

    21:35
  13. Chapter 13

    13 - The Trap in the Great Cellar

    09:29
  14. Chapter 14

    14 - The Sea of Sleep

    08:41
  15. Chapter 15

    15 - The Noise in the Night

    21:52
  16. Chapter 16

    16 - The Awakening

    10:46
  17. Chapter 17

    17 - The Slowing Rotation

    12:52
  18. Chapter 18

    18 - The Green Star

    14:40
  19. Chapter 19

    19 - The End of the Solar System

    09:22
  20. Chapter 20

    20 - The Celestial Globes

    07:23
  21. Chapter 21

    21 - The Dark Sun

    10:23
  22. Chapter 22

    22 - The Dark Nebula

    10:25
  23. Chapter 23

    23 - Pepper

    02:22
  24. Chapter 24

    24 - The Footsteps in the Garden

    08:03
  25. Chapter 25

    25 - The Thing From the Arena

    18:01
  26. Chapter 26

    26 - The Luminous Speck

    05:09
  27. Chapter 27

    27 - Conclusion

    10:58