Hodgson ran away to sea when he was only 13 and spent seven years enduring the hardships and terrors of the ocean, which he would so aptly describe in many of his later novels. On leaving the Merchant Marines, he decided to support himself through a literary career and his first book, A Tropical Horror, appeared in 1905. His works are primarily horror and occult tales in which he was exceptionally gifted. Hodgson was killed at the battle of Ypres during World War I. His works included The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" (1907), The House on the Borderland (1908), The Ghost Pirates (1909), Carnacki, the Ghost Finder (1910), Men of the Deep Waters (1914), The Luck of the Strong (1916) and Captain Gault (1917). |
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