The world was held in a savage gloom - cold and intolerable. Outside, all was quiet - quiet! From the dark room behind me, came the occasional, soft thud of falling matter - fragments of rotting stone. So time passed,… — William Hope Hodgson Copy Share Image
Impossible, that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown. — William Hope Hodgson Copy Share Image
“And then, suddenly, an extraordinary question rose in my mind, whether this stupendous globe of green fire might not be the vast Central Sun—the great sun, round which our universe and countless others revolve. I felt confused. I thought of the probable end of the dead sun, and another suggestion came, dumbly—Do the dead stars make the Green Sun their… — William Hope Hodgson Copy Share
“And they made dim the lights in the Great Causeway, that there should no glare go forth into the Land, when the Gate was opened; and behold, they opened not the lesser gate within the greater, for me; but did honour my journey, in that they swung wide the Great Gate itself, through which a monstrous army might pass. And… — William Hope Hodgson Copy Share
“Yes, Doctor,' I said. 'In brief, your argument is that Life is a thing, state, fact, or element, call-it-what-you-like, which requires the Material through… — William Hope Hodgson Copy Share Image
“I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.” — William Hope Hodgson Copy Share Image
“There had stood a great house in the centre of the gardens, where now was left only that fragment of ruin. This house had… — William Hope Hodgson Copy Share Image
“Moreover, they who returned, if any, would be flogged, as seemed proper, after due examination. And though the news of their beatings might help… — William Hope Hodgson Copy Share Image
“And I cannot touch her face And I cannot touch her hair, And I kneel to empty shadows-- Just memories of her grace; And… — William Hope Hodgson Copy Share Image
“Six days, and I have eaten nothing. It is night. I am sitting in my chair. Ah, God! I wonder have any ever felt… — William Hope Hodgson Copy Share Image
The world was held in a savage gloom - cold and intolerable. Outside, all was quiet - quiet! From the dark room behind me,… — William Hope Hodgson Copy Share Image
By millions of years, time winged onward through eternity, to the end - the end, of which, in the old-earth days, I had thought… — William Hope Hodgson Copy Share Image
