You mean 'The House on the Borderland'? I don't find the themes or the<br>settings familiar, but there may be something about the 'tone', whatever that is. <br><br>Yes. Frankly, Wolfe's horror 'tone' strikes me as much closer to Hodgson than Lovecraft, even though Wolfe perhaps deals more explicitly with Lovecraftian themes. There is a strange animal terror connected to the more cosmic and numinous horror and awe in Hodgy that I don't so much find in Lovey but do find echoed in Wolfe, his Solar monsters especially perhaps - notules, alzabo, devil fish on spongey island, leatherskin, etc. I have heard WHH referenced in at least one review of Wolfe.<div>
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David Stockhoff wrote (18-04-2012 13:00):<br>
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On 4/18/2012 1:26 AM, pinlighter wrote:<br>
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.. William Hope Hodgson is great background to some of Wolfe's<br>
horror elements - I'm loving getting familiar with him. (Lovecraft<br>
goes here too, of course.)<br>
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Uh, not really. Where is Hodgson's influence on Wolfe???<br>
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Lovecraft, yes, of course<br>
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The extreme futurity and the giant slow-moving evil Beings from outer<br>
space do feel familiar. And the Redoubt is a bit like Byzantium toward<br>
the end, hyper-romanticized of course, and thus Nessus as well. But<br>
that's about all the connections I see.<br>
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You mean 'The House on the Borderland'? I don't find the themes or the<br>
settings familiar, but there may be something about the 'tone', whatever that is.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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