Where the Silent Ones Watch

by James Chambers (Editor), John Langan (Contributor), Lisa Morton (Contributor)

William Hope Hodgson's writing life spanned fourteen years, during which he published novels and stories of the adventurous, the fantastic, and the horrific. Best known, perhaps, for his novel The House on the Borderland, Hodgson wrote several other landmark weird works, including The Boats of the "Glen Carrig," The Ghost Pirates, and The Night Land, as well as dozens of short stories. He explored places in the ocean where realities overlapped, described the horrors of a house built beside a gap between dimensions, and transported readers to a desolate future, where abhuman monstrosities prowl. He displayed imaginative visions of staggering scope unlike any others in literature.

In this anthology, twenty-seven authors and poets visit Hodgson's worlds and concepts to dig deep into his mythologies and delve into fresh mysteries in unexpected times, locations, and interpretations. Whether or not you've read Hodgson's works, these visions of Hodgsonian horror will lead you into strange, liminal, and frightening new landscapes of the weird and fantastic.

Authors include: Linda D. Addison - David Agranoff - Meghan Arcuri - Sal Ciano - Michael Cisco - L. E. Daniels - Andy Davidson - Aaron Dries - Patrick Freivald - Teel James Glenn - Maxwell Ian Gold - Nancy Holder - Todd Keisling - John Langan - Adrian Ludens - Lee Murray - Lisa Morton - Peter Rawlik - Sam Rebelein - Ann K. Schwader - Steve Rasnic Tem - Tim Waggoner - Wendy N. Wagner - Kyla Lee Ward - Robert E. Waters - L. Marie Wood - Stephanie Wytovich

Genres: Horror, Anthologies, Dying Earth

280 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2024

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Reviews

[Matthew]

The stand-out story of this collection is Kyla Lee Ward's "The Battlements of Twilight," the story that best represents the mood, themes, and macabre imagination of William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land.

[Becky Spratford · Rating 4 out of 5]

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Three Words That Describe This Book: confessional narration, malevolent forces, fantastical Horror

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[Grant Dowell · Rating 4 out of 5]

This collection shows just how imaginatively inspirational the work of William Hope Hodgson proves to be.

[Steve Chappell · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fantastic collection of cosmic horror, based on the works of William Hope Hodgson, a contemporary of HP Lovecraft. Every tale is a great read, with lots of surprises and horror to go around. If you like cosmic horror, you should definitely give this one a try.