I am very weak, and oh! so miserable, so miserable and tired-tired. It will, at least, spare me that final horror… …. This! Jesus, forgive me, but I cannot live, cannot, cannot! I dare not! I am beyond all help-there is nothing else left. God, Thou knowest, Thou must know, that death is better, aye, better a thousand times than This. I have looked again-with the strangest of feelings.
Yet, a thought has come to me, born of a sight of the gun-rack, on the other side of the room. I shall become a terrible mass of living corruption. It has covered all my right arm and side, and is beginning to creep up my neck.
I feel ever the burning of this dread growth. Ah, God! I wonder have any ever felt the horror of life that I have come to know? I am swathed in terror. There is an introduction by noted comics writer Alan Moore.“Six days, and I have eaten nothing. Corben's moody color and dramatically illustrated panel sequences make this eerie book potent reading and a captivating tribute to the original novel. The nearly 40 pages of mystical descriptions from the original novel (i.e., an exploding sun and the notion of traveling the breadth of the universe in an instant) are judiciously adapted to the graphic novel format. Or do they? Hodgson's hair-raising story brings into question the very sanity and reliability of the narrator himself. In the winding cellar corridors of the decrepit house, Gault, his sister and their dog fight off savage attacks by cloven-hoofed half-humans erupting from the depths of the mansion's foundations. They read aloud from the moldy tome, invoking the horrible story of Hodgson's fictional narrator, Byron Gault, who tells a harrowing tale of inexplicable evil and violent struggle against terrors. In Revelstroke's adaptation, two young backpackers discover a decaying manuscript among the ancient ruins of a manor house in the remote Irish countryside. It's the haunting tale of an accursed mansion teetering metaphorically between hallucinatory human visions and the dark bottomless pit of the human subconscious. Proves fertile ground for legendary underground comix artist Richard Corben. William Hope Hodgson's visionary 1908 novel The House on the Borderland
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