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'''[[William Hope Hodgson''']] (1877 – 1918) was an Englishman who held many careers throughout his short life: sailor, soldier, personal trainer, and so on. However, he is ''best'' remembered for his career as an author of horror, fantasy and SF works, particularly the novels ''[[The House Onon the Borderland]]'' and ''[[The Night Land]]''.
 
At age 40, while serving in [[World War I]], he was killed by an exploding shell.
 
=== {{examples|Works by William Hope Hodgson with their own trope page include: ===}}
* ''[[Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder]]''
 
* ''[[CarnackiThe theHouse Ghoston the FinderBorderland]]''
* ''[[The House On the Borderland]]''
* ''[[The Night Land]]''
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* [[All First -Person Narrators Write Like Novelists]]:
** ''The Ghost Pirates''
** Averted in ''The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"''. The narrator is relating the story to his son, and actually tells it how you would expect someone to tell it in those circumstances; for example, there is no actual dialogue in the book itself.
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* [[Inn of No Return]]: "The Inn of the Black Crow".
* [[Living Ship]]: "The Derelict" has a monstrous [[Attack of the Killer Whatever]] version.
* [[Rated Mfor"M" for Manly]]: A large chunk of his output consisted of stories best classified as "Action-Horror" rather than simply "Horror"; these stories typically featured small groups of men (often experienced sailors with a fatherly, [[Badass]] leader) who faced off against [[Eldritch Abominations]] (or, in the case of ''[[The House Onon the Borderland]]'', it's just ''one'' man (and his faithful dog) who faces off against the horrors). Even in the yarns where they didn't win (or died), they sure didn't go down without a fight.
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: Different stories occupied different parts of the scale, with ''The Boats of the Glen Carrig'' being far on the idealism side and ''[[The House Onon the Borderland]]'' (which was a precursor to the [[Cosmic Horror]] genre) being as far on the cynicism side as a work of fiction can be. ''[[The Night Land]]'' and most of his other stories fall somewhere between the extremes of these two novels.
* [[Sole Survivor]]: {{spoiler|''A Tropical Horror'' and ''The Ghost Pirates''}}.
* [[Stock Shout -Outs]]: The plot concept of "The Voice in the Night" was subsequently used as a Shout Out for single-episode plots in many works, in many different media, although some of them may have been inspired by the much-expanded Japanese film version of the story, ''[[Matango]]'' aka ''Attack of the Mushroom People''.
* [[Thematic Series]]: Hodgsons said that three of his four novels <ref>''The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"'', ''[[The House Onon the Borderland]]'', and ''The Ghost Pirates''</ref> made up "what, perhaps, may be termed a trilogy; for, though very different in scope, each of the three books deals with certain conceptions that have an elemental kinship".
* [[Theory Before Phenomenon]]: "Eloi Eloi Lama Sabachthani", "The Derelict"
* [[When Trees Attack]]: The first section of ''The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"'' involved a land full of prehensile-branched flesh-eating trees.
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