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The house on the borderland

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From the beasts of the pit to the endless terror of the voidA manuscript is found: filled with small, precise writing and smelling of pit-water, it tells the story of an old recluse and his strange home – and its even stranger, jade-green double, seen by the recluse on an otherworldly plain where gigantic gods and monsters roam.Soon his more earthly home is no less terrible than this bizarre vision, as swine-like creatures boil from a cavern beneath the ground and besiege it. But a still greater horror will face the recluse – more inexorable, merciless and awful than any creature that can be fought or killed.

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Product Details
Penguin
0141900156 / 9780141900155
eBook (EPUB)
823.912
02/10/2008
England
English
Classics
137 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
Reprint. Description based on print version record. Originally published: London: Chapman & Hall, 1908.