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ContinuumGuy OP t1_j5uog96 wrote
Which means it's in the public domain.
jesse-taylor t1_j5uovbc wrote
Hodgson's story scared the absolute crap out of me when I was a teenager!! Creepy beyond creepy. So well written, the visual image, and the sounds of the still, dark, cloudy night and the sea have never faded from my memory.
kthulhu666 t1_j5uss24 wrote
TIL Matango and Attack of the Mushroom People are the same movie.
Hexatona t1_j5uul63 wrote
While we are talking William Hope Hodgson, check out his story 'The Night Land', that's about an earth plunged into an eternal night, where humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, surrounded by unspeakable horrors. This is the fiction that inspired H. P. Lovecraft.
3d_blunder t1_j5uyian wrote
Huh, I just recently read that. It was in a collection called "Voices from the Radium Age".
EndoExo t1_j5uz9k5 wrote
Also, The House on the Borderland. It starts with a dude's old mansion getting attacked by pig people and then it gets weird.
WolfOnHigh t1_j5v0ad1 wrote
Agent from H.A.R.M. - motherfucker had a fungus gun if I remember correctly.
BrokenEye3 t1_j5v2vd2 wrote
Ah yes, scary Japanese Gilligan's Island
Future_Direction5174 t1_j5v8ale wrote
Another book is “A scent of New Mown Hay” by John Blackburn 1958
CthulhusMistress t1_j5w3qvn wrote
One of my favorite stories ever.
Hexatona t1_j5w50jo wrote
If you love it as much as I do, I highly highly HIGHLY recommend reading this, the unofficial sequel to The Night Land.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21911510-awake-in-the-night-land
100% catches the feel of the original in these four stories.
CthulhusMistress t1_j5w5ai6 wrote
Oh yes, read this too! Found it because I NEEDED to know more about the world, and I think Wright did a great job fleshing it out while staying true to Hodgson's tone. Now you're making me want to go reread all of it :)
herbw t1_j5wlsxi wrote
yes we have that syndrome in medicine, The Fungus Among Us" syndromee'.
TheDeftEft t1_j5uo9lo wrote
TL;DR first published 1907.