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William Hope Hodgson

Hodgson, William Hope

November 15, 1877 – April 19, 1918 (aged 40)

Birth place: Blackmore End, Essex, England, UK

100 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
June 1905 66 Short Fiction A Tropical Horror The Grand Magazine, June 1905
February 1906 214 Short Fiction The Valley of Lost Children The Cornhill Magazine, February 1906
April 1906 1198 Short Fiction From the Tideless Sea The Monthly Story Magazine, April 1906
July 1907 168 Short Fiction The Mystery of the Derelict The Story-teller, July 1907
August 1907 758 Short Fiction More News of the Homebird The Blue Book Magazine, August 1907
September 1907 11 Short Fiction The Terror of the Water-Tank The Blue Book Magazine, September 1907
November 1907 125 Short Fiction The Voice in the Night The Blue Book Magazine, November 1907
November 1907 Essay Through the Vortex of a Cyclone Putnam's Monthly, November 1907
April 1908 32 Short Fiction The "Shamraken" Homeward-Bounder Putnam's Monthly & The Reader, April 1908
January 1910 403 Short Fiction The Gateway of the Monster The Idler, January 1910
February 1910 515 Short Fiction The House Among the Laurels The Idler, February 1910
March 1910 103 Short Fiction The Whistling Room The Idler, March 1910
April 1910 696 Short Fiction The Horse of the Invisible The Idler, April 1910
June 1910 996 Short Fiction The Searcher of the End House The Idler, June 1910
December 1910 Short Fiction The Captain of the Onion Boat Nash's Magazine, Christmas 1910
May 1911 664 Short Fiction My House Shall Be Called the House of Prayer The Cornhill Magazine, May 1911
July 1911 Short Fiction The Albatross Adventure, July 1911
March 1912 57 Poem The Song of the Great Bull Whale The Grand Magazine, March 1912
April 1912 36 Short Fiction On the Bridge The Saturday Westminster Gazette, April 20, 1912
May 1912 Short Fiction The Island of the Ud The Red Magazine, May 15, 1912
May 1912 374 Poem The Sobbing of the Freshwater The London Magazine, May 1912
November 1912 197 Short Fiction The Adventure of the Headland The Red Magazine, November 1, 1912
December 1912 44 Short Fiction The Derelict The Red Magazine, December 1, 1912
January 1913 9 Short Fiction The Girl with the Grey Eyes The Red Magazine, January 15, 1913
January 1913 637 Short Fiction The Thing in the Weeds The Story-teller, January 1913
February 1913 18 Short Fiction The Finding of the Graiken The Red Magazine, February 15, 1913
March 1913 636 Short Fiction How the Hon. Billy Darrell Raised the Wind The Red Magazine, March 15, 1913
March 1913 41 Short Fiction Sea-Horses The London Magazine, March 1913
April 1914 29 Short Fiction The Bells of the Laughing Sally The Red Magazine, April 15, 1914
July 1914 735 Short Fiction The Mystery of the Ship in the Night The Red Magazine, July 1, 1914
November 1914 197 Short Fiction The Getting Even of "Parson" Guyles The Red Magazine, November 1, 1914
January 1915 Short Fiction The Adventure with the Claim Jumpers The Red Magazine, January 15, 1915
November 1915 Short Fiction The Exploits of Captain Gault: IX. The Painted Lady The London Magazine, November 1915
December 1915 167 Short Fiction The Mystery of Missing Ships All Around Magazine, December 1915
January 1917 107 Short Fiction The Real Thing: 'S.O.S.' The Cornhill Magazine, January 1917
September 1919 Short Fiction The Baumoff Explosive Nash's Illustrated Weekly, September 20, 1919
November 1920 Short Fiction The Voice in the Dawn The Premier Magazine, November 5, 1920
July 1925 634 Short Fiction Merciful Plunder Argosy All-Story Weekly, July 25, 1925
March 1944 4 Serial The Ghost Pirates (Complete Novel) Famous Fantastic Mysteries, March 1944
June 1945 10 Serial The Boats of the Glen Carrig (Complete Novel) Famous Fantastic Mysteries, June 1945
January 1947 6 Short Fiction The Hog Weird Tales, January 1947
1948 91 Review Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder The Arkham Sampler, Spring 1948
January 1949 115 Review Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder Fantastic Novels Magazine, January 1949
February 1949 87 Short Fiction The Stone Ship Avon Fantasy Reader, No. 9
November 1951 119 Short Fiction The Mystery of the Sargasso Avon Fantasy Reader, #17
March 1952 116 Short Fiction The Haunted "Jarvee" Avon Fantasy Reader, #18
January 1960 19 Review The Night Land Vector 6
October 1962 112 Review The House on the Borderland Science Fantasy, October 1962
December 1962 159 Review The House on the Borderland Analog Science Fact -> Science Fiction, December 1962
April 1965 125 Short Fiction The Whistling Room (excerpt) Magazine of Horror, April 1965
1969 135 Poem Lost The Arkham Collector, Summer 1969
1969 136 Poem Shoon of the Dead The Arkham Collector, Summer 1969
1969 17 Review The House on the Borderland Vector 53 Spring / Summer 1969
September 1973 2 Short Fiction Eloi Eloi Lama Sabachthani Weird Tales, Fall 1973
1976 61 Review Out of the Storm Quantum (1975-78), #2, 1976
January 1976 5 Review Out of the Storm The Science Fiction Review Monthly, January 1976
May 1976 9 Review Out of the Storm Delap's F & SF Review, May 1976
October 1976 32 Review Out of the Storm Algol, Fall 1976-Winter 1977
March 1977 11 Review The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" Delap's F & SF Review, March 1977
March 1977 12 Review The Ghost Pirates Delap's F & SF Review, March 1977
March 1977 11 Review The House on the Borderland Delap's F & SF Review, March 1977
March 1977 12 Review The Night Land Delap's F & SF Review, March 1977
April 1977 145 Review The Ghost Pirates Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Summer 1977
November 1977 64 Review The Dream of X Shayol, #1 November 1977
December 1977 67|67.3 Review The Dream of X Algol, #30, Winter 1977-78
January 1978 130 Review The Dream of X Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, January-February 1978
November 1980 16 Review Out of the Storm Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, November 1980
June 1984 28 Review The House on the Borderland Fantasy Review, June 1984
October 1984 174 Review The House on the Borderland Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1984
February 1985 16 Review Spectral Manifestations Fantasy Review, February 1985
August 1990 4 Review The House on the Borderland Paperback Inferno, #85
October 1991 8 Review The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" Paperback Inferno, #92
October 1991 21 Review The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' Vector 163
December 1992 68 Review Demons of the Sea Aboriginal Science Fiction, Spring 1993
August 1993 172 Review The Haunted Pampero Asimov's Science Fiction, August 1993
1997 2 Short Fiction Out of the Storm Terror Tales, #1
January 1997 26 Review The House on the Borderland Vector 191
April 1997 21 Review Terrors of the Sea The New York Review of Science Fiction, April 1997
April 1997 21 Review The House on the Borderland The New York Review of Science Fiction, April 1997
March 2000 162 Review Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2000
May 2001 30|30.2 Review The House on the Borderland The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001
November 2002 35 Review The House on the Borderlands and Other Novels Vector 226
December 2003 25 Review The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and Other Nautical Adventures The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 2003
February 2004 Review The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and other Nautical Adventures Realms of Fantasy, February 2004
February 2004 120 Review The Ghost Pirates All Hallows, February 2004
June 2006 104 Review The House on the Borderland Cemetery Dance, #55
July 2006 29 Poem Night Beyond the Borderland, #1, July 2006
March 2007 216 Review Adrift on the Haunted Seas: The Best Short Stories of William Hope Hodgson Black Gate, Spring 2007
December 2009 37 Review The Dream Of X and Other Fantastic Visions The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 2009
December 2009 37 Review The House on the Borderland and Other Mysterious Places The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 2009
July 2013 Review The Derelict StarShipSofa, No 297
May 2014 Serial The House on the Borderland (Part 1 of 4) Tales to Terrify, No 124
May 2014 Serial The House on the Borderland (Part 2 of 4) Tales to Terrify, No 125
June 2014 Serial The House on the Borderland (Part 3 of 4) Tales to Terrify, No 126
June 2014 Serial The House on the Borderland (Part 4 of 4) Tales to Terrify, No 127
2016 [96]|96 Review Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder Occult Detective Quarterly, #1 Winter 2016-2017
2017 7 Short Fiction Jack Grey, Second Mate Pulp Adventures, Fall 2017
December 2018 |17 Review The House on the Borderland Dead Reckonings, No. 24, Fall 2018
March 2024 56 Short Fiction Demons of the Sea Cosmic Horror Monthly, March 2024
September 2025 Review "The Oppressiveness of the Incomprehensible": The William Hope Hodgson Mythos Penumbra: A Journal of Weird Fiction and Criticism, Autumn 2025

61 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
1907 Novel The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" William Hope Hodgson
1908 Novel The House on the Borderland William Hope Hodgson
1909 Novel The Ghost Pirates William Hope Hodgson
1909 Collection The Ghost Pirates, A Chaunty, and Another Story William Hope Hodgson
1910 Collection Carnacki, the Ghost Finder; and, A Poem William Hope Hodgson
1912 Collection "Poems" and "The Dream of X" William Hope Hodgson
1912 Novel The Night Land William Hope Hodgson
1913 Collection Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder William Hope Hodgson
1914 Collection Men of the Deep Waters William Hope Hodgson
1916 Collection The Luck of the Strong William Hope Hodgson
1917 Collection Captain Gault William Hope Hodgson
1920 Collection The Calling of the Sea William Hope Hodgson
1921 Novel The Night Land: A Love Tale William Hope Hodgson
1946 Omnibus The House on the Borderland and Other Novels William Hope Hodgson
1967 Collection Deep Waters William Hope Hodgson
1975 Collection Out of the Storm: Uncollected Fantasies William Hope Hodgson
1977 Collection Masters of Terror: Volume One William Hope Hodgson
1977 Chapbook The Dream of X William Hope Hodgson
1977 Collection William Hope Hodgson: A Centenary Tribute, 1877-1977 William Hope Hodgson
1980 Collection Out of the Storm William Hope Hodgson
1980 Chapbook The Haunted "Pampero" William Hope Hodgson
1984 Collection Spectral Manifestations William Hope Hodgson
1988 Collection Manuscript Series William Hope Hodgson
1988 Collection The Room of Fear and Other Grues William Hope Hodgson
1991 Novel The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' William Hope Hodgson
1992 Collection Demons of the Sea William Hope Hodgson
1992 Collection The Haunted "Pampero" William Hope Hodgson
1993 Collection At Sea William Hope Hodgson
1996 Collection Terrors of the Sea William Hope Hodgson
2001 Omnibus All Gothic 1: The Boats of the Glen Garrig & The House on the Borderland William Hope Hodgson
2001 Collection Carnacki, The Ghost Finder William Hope Hodgson
2001 Omnibus Gothic Horror 2: The Ghost Pirates & Carnacki the Ghost Finder William Hope Hodgson
2003 Collection The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and Other Nautical Adventures William Hope Hodgson
2004 Collection Carnacki, the Ghost Finder William Hope Hodgson
2004 Collection The House on the Borderland and Other Mysterious Places William Hope Hodgson
2005 Collection Adrift on the Haunted Seas: The Best Short Stories of William Hope Hodgson William Hope Hodgson
2005 Collection The Ghost Pirates and Other Revenants of the Sea William Hope Hodgson
2005 Collection The Lost Poetry of William Hope Hodgson William Hope Hodgson
2005 Collection The Night Land and Other Perilous Romances William Hope Hodgson
2005 Nonfiction The Wandering Soul: Glimpses of a Life William Hope Hodgson
2006 Collection Carnacki: The Ghost-Finder William Hope Hodgson
2008 Collection William Hope Hodgson: Masters of the Weird Tale William Hope Hodgson
2009 Omnibus Bordercrossings: The Fantasy Novels of William Hope Hodgson William Hope Hodgson
2009 Collection The Dream of X and Other Fantastic Visions William Hope Hodgson
2009 Chapbook The Voice of the Ocean William Hope Hodgson
2009 Collection Voices in the Night: Rare Stories William Hope Hodgson
2011 Omnibus Supernatural Detectives 1: Carnacki: Ghost Finder / John Bell: Ghost Exposer Robert Eustace & L. T. Meade & William Hope Hodgson
2011 Novel The Night Land, A Story Retold James Stoddard & William Hope Hodgson
2012 Collection Horrors from Haunted Seas William Hope Hodgson
2012 Collection The Ghost Pirates and Others: The Best of William Hope Hodgson William Hope Hodgson
2013 Collection Collected Short Stories of William Hope Hodgson: The Baumoff Explosive and Other Weird Stories William Hope Hodgson
2013 Chapbook The Voice in the Night William Hope Hodgson
2014 Collection The William Hope Hodgson Megapack William Hope Hodgson
2014 Collection William Hope Hodgson William Hope Hodgson
2016 Collection The Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories of William Hope Hodgson William Hope Hodgson
2016 Novel The Boats of the Glen Garrig William Hope Hodgson
2019 Novel HorrorBabble's The House on the Borderland William Hope Hodgson
2019 Collection The Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson William Hope Hodgson
2023 Novel The Night Land: Abridged Edition William Hope Hodgson
2024 Collection Horror Stories William Hope Hodgson
2024 Collection The Voice in the Night: Best Weird Stories of William Hope Hodgson William Hope Hodgson
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Year Publication Title
September 2007 The Dark Horse Book of Horror A Tropical Horror