Wow, lots of great stuff at that Blackmask link. Especially happy to see all the Blackwood and LeFanu. Much easier to get at than the old Dover editions in boxes in my garage. I poked around a bit and didn't find anything much for Arthur Machen online. Not all in one place anyway. You'd be surprised how often I feel like re-reading those long surreal paragraphs at the core of The White People.

At some point my brain started conflating The House on the Borderland's "swine-things" with Jim Woodring's pig-men from FRANK, and now I always picture them like that. The two nightmare zones seemed fated to overlap somewhere, and I'm just as happy to have it happen in my head.

' "I told you about the grunting of the pigs," he said. "Well, I grunt too. I know it's horrible. When I lie there in bed and hear those sounds after I've come up, I just grunt back as if in reply. I can't stop myself. I just do it. Something makes me. I never told Doctor Witton that. I couldn't. I'm sure now you think me mad," he concluded.

William Hope Hodgson is, indeed, rather marvellous. I've been reading a number of his works via my RCA Ebook and Blackmask.com - here's an index of downloadable Hodgson works - Carnacki The Ghost Finder is particularly neato.

I just got my copy in the mail the other day. It's a beautiful book. I can't wait to dig in.