![]() ![]() What can we say about Willie? A proud Scot, a fellow beard owner and a master of the rollicking, scary adventure. Our first feature author is William Meikle. Instead, we start with a range of contemporary authors who have been directly influenced by Hodgson, or who explore his characters and key themes in their own work. Hodgson’s originality meant that he had a surprising impact on many fertile imaginations. It’s a long list, and could include a few surprising bedfellows – China Mieville, Dennis Wheatley and Clark Ashton Smith, for example. We don’t have the space here to cover all those writers peripherally influenced by WHH. So, my dear ones, what difference did William Hope Hodgson make to the world of weird fiction? Does he actually have a legacy? For our longdog and lurcher friends, hurrah, only two weeks to go before the end of October Horror! And for our horror friends, hurrah, two more weeks of October Horror yet to come… ![]()
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