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William Hope Hodgson (November 15, 1877 – April 1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction and science fiction. Early in his writing career he dedicated effort to poetry, although few of his poems were published during his lifetime. He also attracted some notice as a photographer and achieved some renown as a bodybuilder. He died in World War I at the age of 40. Hodgson was born in Blackmore End, Essex, the son of Samuel Hodgson, an Anglican priest, and Lissie Sarah Brown. He was the second of twelve. | feedboo is The Night Land Hodgson William Hope Published 1912 Categorie s Fiction Fantasy Horror Science Fiction Source http 1 About Hodgson William Hope Hodgson November 15 1877 - April 1918 was an English author. He produced a large body of work consisting of essays short fiction and novels spanning several overlapping genres including horror fantastic fiction and science fiction. Early in his writing career he dedicated effort to poetry although few of his poems were published during his lifetime. He also attracted some notice as a photographer and achieved some renown as a bodybuilder. He died in World War I at the age of 40. Hodgson was born in Blackmore End Essex the son of Samuel Hodgson an Anglican priest and Lissie Sarah Brown. He was the second of twelve children three of whom died in infancy. The death of a child is a theme in several of Hodgson s works including the short stories The Valley of Lost Children The Sea-Horses and The Searcher of the End House . Hodgson s father was moved frequently and served 11 different parishes in 21 years including one in County Galway Ireland. This setting was later featured in Hodgson s novel The House on the Borderland. Hodgson ran away from his boarding school at the age of thirteen in an effort to become a sailor. He was caught and returned to his family but eventually received his father s permission to be apprenticed as a cabin boy and began a four-year apprenticeship in 1891. Hodgson s father died shortly thereafter of throat cancer leaving the family impoverished while William was away the family subsisted largely on charity. After his apprenticeship ended in 1895 Hodgson began two years of study in Liverpool and was then able to pass the tests and receive his mate s certificate he then began several more years as a sailor. At sea Hodgson experienced bullying. This led him to begin a program of personal training. According to Sam Moskowitz The primary motivation of his body development was not .