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=== Works by William Hope Hodgson with their own trope page include: ===
* ''[[Carnacki, the Ghost
* ''[[The House On the Borderland]]''
* ''[[The Night Land]]''
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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 On 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 On 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''}}.
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* [[Thematic Series]]: Hodgsons said that three of his four novels <ref>''The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"'', ''[[The House On 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"
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