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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
At age 40, while serving in [[World War I]], he was killed by an exploding shell.
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* ''[[Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder]]''
* ''[[The House
* ''[[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
* [[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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