Where as an advanced scout, he was blown up by a German shell, at the age of 40.
Receiving a serious head injury in a fall, he recovered and returned to the front lines near Ypres, Belgium, When WWI broke out Hodgson, who had married the year before, entered the Royal Field Artillery and trainedĪs a Lieutenant. Hodgson continued with tales of an occultĭetective ( Carnacki the Ghost Finder) an The Night Land a tale of horror at the end of time, lauded by LovecraftĪnd C.A. Publication of another tale of horrors at sea, The Ghost Pirates. Lovecraft "a classic of the first water." The year 1909 saw the Early in 1907, the episodic novel The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" was published, and in 1908 theĮarthbound The House on the Borderland, termed by H.P. His first published story was "A Tropical Horror," The Grand Magazine, Supplementing his income with photography. Around 1904 he began writing tales of horror at sea, Coming to hate the sea, in 1902 he set up an exerciseĬlub near Liverpool, where he taught body-building to local policemen. Made he learned judo and began body-building, and also took up photography. William ran away to sea at 13, was hauled home, before beginning his apprentice ship in 1891. 17 1918) was born in Blackmore End, Essex,Įngland. One of 12 children of an Anglican priest, William Hope Hodgson (Nov. The Casebook of Carnacki, The Ghost Finder The SF Site Featured Review: The Casebook of Carnacki, The Ghost Finder
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