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As this lovely volume just arrived, I have only read 3 stories and although these unique and appetizing, I will still try and review at least the volume if not the whole work In another review Wilum pugmire Esq. has listed all the stories in this volume so forgive my laziness, as not listing a table of contents is a moot point with me regarding book reviews . This volume is beautifully covered in black cloth , tightly bound, with an embossed Hodgson signature on the front board , with quality paper, a red ribbon book mark and a semi gloss attractive dust jacket featuring a profile photo of Hodgson. Included is a short but interesting forward dealing mostly with the editing, or collecting of the included works,also included are photographs of Hodgson. If you haven't been exposed to Hodgson's work there is no better starting place. A lovely collection to delight lovers of good " weird" fiction and bibliophiles as well.Better act now ,as these were i believe only printed in a small number( 500), and when they are gone you will kick yourself or someone else for not buying one. This also came with one of the best and neatest packing jobs you could ask for it was backed on heavy cardboard, wrapped in heavy plastic ( sealed) the volume itself was wrapped in plastic as well, then into a sturdy cardboard box.


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William Hope Hodgson The Centipede Press Library of Weird Fiction William Hope Hodgson ST Joshi 9781613470497 Books Reviews

This new edition (publish'd in May of 2014) of Hodgson's weird fiction is a wonderful collection of 733 pages. Here is its Contents
Introduction, by editor S. T. Joshi
The House of the Borderland
The Ghost Pirates
The Goddess of Death
A Tropical Horror
From the Tideless Sea
The Mystery of the Derelict
The Voice in the Night
Out of the Storm
The Gateway of the Monster
The House among the Laurels
The Whistling Room
The Horse of the Invisible
The Searcher of the End House
The Thing Invisible
The Derelict
The Thing in the Weeds
The Finding of the Graiken
The Haunted Pampero
Demons of the Sea
The Haunted Jarvee
The Hog
The Riven Night
The Room of Fear
Bibliography

It has been a long time since I have read Hodgson, and with my new reading of THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND I am impress'd anew with the beauty of his writing and the cosmic sweep of his imagination. I haven't read the Carnacki stories in a long long time, when I read them in the Arkham House collection; and I remember finding the stories wonderfully entertaining yet found the character of Carnacki a bit silly. Although it has been many years since my first reading of "Out of the Storm" and "The Voice in the Night," I still recall the eerie sensation these tales instill'd within me, and I look forward to reading them again. The book does not include all of those works by Hodgson that can be called "weird fiction," due to space limitations; but what is here presented is the very finest. S. T.'s fine Introduction is illustrated with rare photographs. A very handsome,volume, solid and beautifully design'd.
Allow me to clarify that my rating has nothing whatsoever to do with Hodgson's writings - each of which I would readily rate 3.5 stars and above. I find the ebb and flow of his prose incredibly entrancing, especially in his magnum opus, The Night Land; and that, I confess, is the sole reason why I have thus far refrained myself from hurling this particular volume into the fire in vexation. With a price tag of $285 (or $395, if bought directly from Centipede Press), I could not have imagined the book to be of such low merit. It would be impossible to list all of its problems, but by far the two most excruciating offences are those regarding-

1) The illustrations again, the artworks themselves are of great quality. However, these works, when reproduced here, are exceedingly smudgy, with dull colour schemes and highly perceptible pixelation. I believe that if I had downloaded the drawings from the internet, then printed them off my HP Deskjet 2050 (i.e. one of the lowest-end colour-printers around), these prints would have looked quite as "fine" as the atrocious prints in this book. The only exception to this rule is the awesome illustration by Ian Miller, fantastically reproduced on the first two translucent, nylon-like pages of the volume.

2) Editing and proof-reading the people at Centipede Press did not do a good job (or even a decent job) in this department. This is painfully obvious from the moment when I first skimmed through the table of contents, a portion of which appeared as follows

- The Searcher of the End House 839
- The Haunted Jarvee 825
- The Thing Invisible 839
- Eloi Eloi Lama Sabachthani 877

Needless to say, I was flabbergasted with this nonsense; and after much perusal, was able to find the correct sequence, which ran as follows

- The Searcher of the End House 839
- The Haunted Jarvee 861
- Eloi Eloi Lama Sabachthani 877
- The Thing Invisible 891

More insulting, though, is the fact that in certain stories, not only would there be a most generous offering of typos, but also of paragraphs cut short right in the middle, or even the beginning, of a sentence - something which I can only view as the result of the publisher's stupendous negligence, or incompetence. For example, this is one passage in The House on the Borderland (p 276)

"The cat gave a last, awful caterwaul, and I saw it smoke and blaze. My breath came with a gasp, and I leant against the wall. O"

It ended just like that, with an uppercase O. Now, this is how the passage ends, as per wikisource

"[...] I leant against the wall. Over that part of the window there spread a smudge, green and fantastic. It hid the thing from me, though the glare of the fire shone through, dully. A stench of burning, stole into the room."

Another example, from the same story (p 287)

"This news, it appears, so excited the curiosity of the villagers, that they overcame their fears, and mThere, [...]"

which should have read as

"This news, it appears, so excited the curiosity of the villagers, that they overcame their fears, and marched en-masse to the place. There, [...]"

As can be imagined, such glaring errors make the reading of William Hope Hodgson Masters of the Weird Tale an incredibly frustrating experience. The shortcomings can hardly justify the exorbitant $285 (or, as I've mentioned, $395) price tag. I strongly advise all potential buyers against repeating my foolish mistake of purchasing this; get Nightshade Books' 5-volume set of all of Hodgson's works instead. True, it's now out of print, and the price for the remaining stock listed by sellers on this site can only be described as "bovine excrement", but as a whole it would still have much higher value for money than this book - at least Nightshade knows how to edit texts properly. As for Centipede Press, congratulations. This is this the first, and also the last time you will ever count me among your customers.
William Hope Hodgson was a fascinating man. He was not only a British sci-fi / horror writer, but also a poet, a soldier, a photographer, and a bodybuilder! He also inspired the young H.P Lovecraft to create his own stories! "Hope" put his heart into everything he did, and this book is simply amazing! I adore his works.
As this lovely volume just arrived, I have only read 3 stories and although these unique and appetizing, I will still try and review at least the volume if not the whole work In another review Wilum pugmire Esq. has listed all the stories in this volume so forgive my laziness, as not listing a table of contents is a moot point with me regarding book reviews . This volume is beautifully covered in black cloth , tightly bound, with an embossed Hodgson signature on the front board , with quality paper, a red ribbon book mark and a semi gloss attractive dust jacket featuring a profile photo of Hodgson. Included is a short but interesting forward dealing mostly with the editing, or collecting of the included works,also included are photographs of Hodgson. If you haven't been exposed to Hodgson's work there is no better starting place. A lovely collection to delight lovers of good " weird" fiction and bibliophiles as well.Better act now ,as these were i believe only printed in a small number( 500), and when they are gone you will kick yourself or someone else for not buying one. This also came with one of the best and neatest packing jobs you could ask for it was backed on heavy cardboard, wrapped in heavy plastic ( sealed) the volume itself was wrapped in plastic as well, then into a sturdy cardboard box.