Under the general title “The House on the Edge of Night” the famous trilogy of the English writer William Hope Hodgson is presented: “The Voyage of the Glen Carrig Boats”, “The House on the Edge” and “The Phantom Pirates” - works are very diverse, in which if and there is something in common, it is an element of the occult, supernatural. Connected with the sea from a young age, Hodgson learned from his own experience what secrets the ocean depths hide, which in his work became a kind of metaphor for the dark aspects of human existence that are inaccessible to “objective” materialistic knowledge. Having devoted a number of books to aquatic themes, the writer included in his trilogy two “sea” novels with the “adventure” flavor inherent in this literary genre: here are the giant “Sargasso” islands, incorporating ships of all eras, and ghostly pirate brigs - a clear paraphrase of “The Flying Man” Dutchman"... The third novel, "The House on the Edge", is a different matter, with its cosmogonic and eschatological motifs anticipating the work of F. H. 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... Literary critics, noting Hodgson’s skill in conveying primordial, irrational horror, brought him closer to such a master of “fantasy” reality", like E. Blackwood.