《The House on the Borderland 》作者：- William Hope Hodgson【EPUB】

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Project Gutenberg's The House on the Borderland, by William Hope Hodgson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The House on the Borderland Author: William Hope Hodgson Release Date: November 10, 2003 [EBook #10002] Last updated: January 19, 2009 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND *** Produced by Suzanne Shell, Sjaani and PG Distributed Proofreaders THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND William Hope Hodgson From the Manuscript discovered in 1877 by Messrs. Tonnison and Berreggnog in the Ruins that lie to the South of the Village of Kraighten, in the West of Ireland. Set out here, with Notes. TO MY FATHER (Whose feet tread the lost aeons) Open the door, ????And listen! Only the wind's muffled roar, ????And the glisten Of tears 'round the moon. ????And, in fancy, the tread Of vanishing shoon?? ????Out in the night with the Dead. "Hush! And hark ????To the sorrowful cry Of the wind in the dark. ????Hush and hark, without murmur or sigh, ?????? To shoon that tread the lost aeons: ????To the sound that bids you to die. Hush and hark! Hush and Hark!" Shoon of the Dead AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION TO THE MANUSCRIPT Many are the hours in which I have pondered upon the story that is set forth in the following pages. I trust that my instincts are not awry when they prompt me to leave the account, in