“The House on the Edge” is the second part of William Hope Hodgson’s trilogy (“The Voyage of the Glen Carrig Boats,” “The House on the Edge” and “The Phantom Pirates”), the works of which are united not by single characters or events, but by a common the concept of the incredible. With his cosmogonic and eschatological motifs, he anticipates the work of H. P. Lovecraft. The diabolical reality of the nightmare literally tears apart the hero’s everyday world, either plunging him into infernal abysses populated by otherworldly anthropomorphic monsters, or lifting him into transcendental metaphysical spaces. The hero travels “in spirit” from one unknown galaxy to another and, rushing through millennia, witnesses the death of the Solar System and monstrous cosmic cataclysms...