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At age 40, while serving in [[World War I]], he was killed by an exploding shell.
* ''[[Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder]]''
* ''[[The House
* ''[[The Night Land]]''
=== Other works by William Hope Hodgson provide examples of: ===▼
* [[All First
** ''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 "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
* [[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
* [[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
* [[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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