Editing William Hope Hodgson (section)

==Novels==
*''[[The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"]]'' (1907)
*''[[The House on the Borderland]]'' (1908)
*''[[The Ghost Pirates]]'' (1909)
*''[[The Night Land]]'' (1912)
*''[[The Dream of X]]'' (1912) (a 20,000-word abridgement of the 200,000-word novel ''The Night Land'')
*''[[The House on the Borderland and Other Novels]]'' (1946) (a posthumous collection of Hodgson's four major novels)
*''Captain Dang'' (unfinished)

===Order of writing versus order of publication===
Sam Gafford, in his 1997 essay "Writing Backwards: The Novels of William Hope Hodgson" has suggested that Hodgson's four major novels may have been published in roughly the reverse order of their writing.<ref>{{cite web|title=Writing Backwards: The Novels of William Hope Hodgson |url=http://alangullette.com/lit/hodgson/gafford.htm |date=31 May 1997 |last=Gafford |first=Sam |access-date=2015-01-26}}</ref> If this is true, then ''[[The Night Land]]'' was Hodgson's first novel, in which he poured out his imagination at its most unbridled, and not his last. Gafford writes:

<blockquote>This concern over the order of composition of the novels may seem of little importance until we consider the implications toward Hodgson's work overall. .. in effect, Hodgson moved away from ''TNL''{{'s}} quasi-science fiction scenario (which contained an astounding number of original conceptions) and toward ''BoGC'''s more basic adventure slant.</blockquote>

If we accept Gafford's thesis, then Hodgson actually wrote ''[[The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"]]'' last, and it benefits from the modernization of style to the point where it is Hodgson's most accessible novel:

<blockquote>When he finishes the group with ''BoGC'', Hodgson has managed to rid himself of these affectations of style and produces a book written in a flat but serviceable tone. With each book, Hodgson learns better control of language and more writing savvy and eventually begins to develop his own voice.</blockquote>

But despite the excessively archaic prose style, which does make them less approachable, it is actually Hodgson's earlier works that are considered masterpieces today. And as Gafford says:

<blockquote>...we can only wonder what wonderfully imaginative excesses like ''The Night Land'' may have been lost because of an unappreciative public.</blockquote>