(1877-1918)
English author, photographer, sailor, and body-builder, Hodgson produced all of his writing in the space of eleven years before he was killed in World War I. Praising such novels as The House on the Borderland and The Night Land, Lovecraft called him "second only to Blackwood in his serious treatment of unreality," but Hodgson's work remains undeservedly ignored. But through the interest and efforts of such scholars as the late Sam Moskowitz, R. Alain Everts, and Sam Gafford, Hodgson may yet be remembered and revived.