History Creator / WilliamHopeHodgson

'''William Hope Hodgson''' (1877 – 1918) was an Englishman who held many careers throughout his short life: sailor, soldier, personal trainer, and so on. However, he is ''best'' remembered for his career as an author - specifically, an author of horror, fantasy and SF works, particularly the novels ''Literature/TheHouseOnTheBorderland'' and ''Literature/TheNightLand''.

* RatedMForManly: A large chunk of his output consisted of stories best classified as "Action-Horror" rather than simply "Horror"; these stories typically featured small groups of men (often experienced sailors with a fatherly, {{Badass}} leader) who faced off against {{Eldritch Abomination}}s (or, in the case of ''The House on the Borderland'', it's just ''one'' man (and his faithful dog) who faces off against the horrors). Even in the yarns where they didn't win (or died), they sure didn't go down without a fight.

At age 40, while serving in WorldWarI, he was killed by an exploding shell.

* Theory Before Phenomenon: "Eloi Eloi Lama Sabachthani", "The Derelict"

* TheoryBeforePhenomenon: "Eloi Eloi Lama Sabachthani", "The Derelict"

* DistressedDamsel: As well as the occasional BadassDamsel

* RatedMForManly: A large chunk of his output consisted of stories best classified as "Action-Horror" rather than simply "Horror"; these stories typically featured small groups of men (often experienced sailors with a fatherly, BadAss leader) who faced off against {{Eldritch Abomination}}s (or, in the case of ''The House on the Borderland'', it's just ''one'' man (and his faithful dog) who faces off against the horrors). Even in the yarns where they didn't win (or died), they sure didn't go down without a fight.

* ActionGirl / ActionMom: The ship's cook in ''The Boats of the Glen Carrig''; [[spoiler:the captain's widow too, to an extent]].

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Different stories occupied different parts of the scale, with ''The Boats of the Glen Carrig'' being far on the idealism side and ''The House on the Borderland'' (which was a precursor to the CosmicHorrorStory) being as far on the cynicism side as a work of fiction can be. ''The Night Land'' and most of his other stories fall somewhere between the extremes of these two novels.

* DistressedDamsel

* RatedMForManly: A large chunk of his output consisted of stories best classified as "Action-Horror" rather than simply "Horror"; these stories typically featured small groups of men (often experienced sailors with a fatherly, BadAss leader) who faced off against EldritchAbominations (or, in the case of ''The House on the Borderland'', it's just ''one'' man (and his faithful dog) who faces off against the horrors). Even in the yarns where they didn't win (or died), they sure didn't go down without a fight.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Different stories occupied different parts of the scale, with ''The Boats of the Glen Carrig'' being far on the idealism side and ''The House on the Borderland'' (which was a precursor to the CosmicHorrorStory) being as far on the cynicism side as a work of fiction can be. ''TheNightLand'' and most of his other stories fall somewhere between the extremes of these two novels.

'''William Hope Hodgson''' (1877 – 1918) was an Englishman who held many careers throughout his short life: sailor, soldier, personal trainer, and so on. However, he is ''best'' remembered for his career as an author - specifically, an author of horror, fantasy and SF works, particularly the novels ''Literature/TheHouseOnTheBorderland'' and ''TheNightLand''.

* ''TheNightLand''