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The House on the Borderland
Chapitres (31)
- Foreword 0:00
- Dedication 0:16
- Author’s Introduction to the Manuscript 0:58
- I: The Finding of the Manuscript 4:21
- II: The Plain of Silence 28:18
- III: The House in the Arena 41:28
- IV: The Earth 55:53
- V: The Thing in the Pit 1:03:02
- VI: The Swine-Things 1:17:27
- VII: The Attack 1:39:02
- VIII: After the Attack 1:51:31
- IX: In the Cellars 2:02:04
- X: The Time of Waiting 2:10:35
- XI: The Searching of the Gardens 2:17:29
- XII: The Subterranean Pit 2:31:40
- XIII: The Trap in the Great Cellar 2:56:10
- XIV: The Sea of Sleep 3:06:28
- XV: The Noise in the Night 3:15:46
- XVI: The Awakening 3:40:38
- XVII: The Slowing Rotation 3:52:16
- XVIII: The Green Star 4:05:58
- XIX: The End of the Solar System 4:22:11
- XX: The Celestial Globes 4:32:29
- XXI: The Dark Sun 4:40:24
- XXII: The Dark Nebula 4:51:43
- XXIII: Pepper 5:02:52
- XXIV: The Footsteps in the Garden 5:04:53
- XXV: The Thing from the Arena 5:13:58
- XXVI: The Luminous Speck 5:34:40
- XXVII: Conclusion 5:40:06
- Grief 5:49:29
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The House on the Borderland is unique in several ways. The narrative itself is a double-frame narrative: the editor of the volume is presenting a manuscript he found under mysterious circumstances, describing the account of two fishermen who themselves discovered a hand-written account of the cosmic haunting of a recluse’s remote home.
Additionally, the novel is one of the earliest examples of the departure of horror fiction from the Gothic style of supernatural, psychological hauntings, to more realist, science-fiction/cosmic horror themes. The recluse is, among other events, transported to a mysterious supra-universal plane populated by monsters and elder gods; and his house withstands assaults from legions of monsters as he travels across time and the solar system.
The book was very influential on H. P. Lovecraft, who himself was famous for the cosmic horror themes in his work. The concept of an uncaring, and even evil, universe that Lovecraft found so disturbing is front and center in this supremely strange novel.