HorrorBabble's The House on the Borderland

The House on the Borderland, a supernatural horror novel by William Hope Hodgson, begins with the discovery of a journal in the ruins of a peculiar house in Ireland. Written by a recluse, the journal chronicles his eerie experiences with monstrous entities and nightmarish dimensions during his time there. Esteemed writers H. P. Lovecraft and Terry Pratchett have acknowledged the novel's profound impact on their own works, marking it as a pivotal shift away from late 19th-century Gothic fiction.