The House on the Borderland

Two travellers fishing in a remote corner of the west of Ireland find a ruined house on the edge of a chasm, and in the ruins a manuscript. It tells how its author, a recluse living there with his sister and his dog, was besieged by pig-like creatures that climbed from the pit, and how he was carried in visions to a plain surrounded by mountains, and then far into the future to watch the death of the Sun.

William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) ran away to sea at thirteen, later became a writer of horror and sea stories, and was killed in the First World War. Published in 1908, The House on the Borderland mixes a siege story with vast cosmic visions, and Lovecraft admired it greatly; see At the Mountains of Madness.