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A novel by William Hope Hodgson, who also created Carnacki The Ghost-Finder and The Night Land. It was first published in 1908. H. P. Lovecraft said "but for a few touches of commonplace sentimentality [it] would be a classic of the first water."

Some friends visiting Ireland find the curious ruins of the eponymous house, and an old diary of the man who was presumably the last inhabitant of it. The majority of the story is the contents of the diary.

Here's a link to an online version of the entire novel at Project Gutenberg. It comes in several formats, including HTML, EPUB, Kindle, and TXT.

Was adapted in The Noughties as a one-volume Graphic Novel by Vertigo Comics, with Richard Corben on drawing duties.

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This story includes examples of:

• All There in the Manual: A possible explanation for who the Pig Men were and what they wanted can be found in Hodgson's Carnacki story, The Hog. It really depends on whether they're set in the same continuity or if Hodgson was simply reusing a concept. That said, the Mind Screw doesn't completely go away because The Hog does nothing to explain the House itself or its green doppleganger.
• Apocalyptic Log: The diary.
• Apocalypse How
• A Boy and His X: A man and his dog.
• Brother-Sister Incest: Incestual context was added to the graphic novel, which displeased some fans of the original book.
• Cosmic Horror Story: A precursor in any case.
• Eldritch Location
• Framing Device
• Genre Shift: Subverted. It starts out as Cosmic Horror, then quickly turns into a mix between Action-Horror and Mystery but then goes right back to Cosmic Horror in the second half.
• No Ending - And annoyingly so, at that.
• Mind Screw
• No Name Given: The diary's author. The two friends from the framing story aren't named in the text of the story, but are given names in the book's title page.
• Pig Men
• Things that Go Bump in the Night

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