Editing William Hope Hodgson (section)

==Literary influence==
After his death, Hodgson's work was largely forgotten. In the 1930s, however, Hodgson's supernatural fiction was anthologised in both Colin de la Mare's ''They Walk Again'' (1931) and [[Dennis Wheatley]]'s ''A Century of Horror Stories'' (1935); this began a revival of interest in Hodgson's work.<ref name="dfs" />

In 1934, [[Herman Charles Koenig]], a book collector who was friends with [[H. P. Lovecraft]], introduced Lovecraft and his friends to Hodgson's weird fiction books. Lovecraft responded to the books with enthusiasm and praised Hodgson in the second edition of his essay ''[[Supernatural Horror in Literature]]''.<ref name="ahplc">{{cite book |last1=Joshi |first1=S. T. |authorlink1=S. T. Joshi |last2=Schultz |first2=David E. |year=2001 |title=[[An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia]] |location=Westport, CT |publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]] |isbn=978-0974878911 }}</ref> Other writers in the "Lovecraft circle", including [[Clark Ashton Smith]], [[August Derleth]] and [[Fritz Leiber]], also read and expressed admiration for Hodgson's work. In the late 1940s Derleth's [[Arkham House]] published two omnibus editions of Hodgson's work, ''[[The House on the Borderland and Other Novels]]'' and an expanded edition of ''[[Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder]]''. These books helped popularise Hodgson's work in the United States.<ref name="ahplc" />

Hodgson's work was inspirational to many science fiction and fantasy writers. In Britain, [[Adrian Ross]], [[Olaf Stapledon]] and Dennis Wheatley were all influenced by Hodgson's work.<ref name="dfs" /><ref name="daa" /> Across the Atlantic, the American writers Clark Ashton Smith,<ref>{{cite news|author=Schweitzer, Darrell|author-link=Darrell Schweitzer|title=Introduction|work=The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson|location= Rockville, MD|publisher= Wildside Press|date= 2005|page= 9|isbn=978-1-55742-409-9}}</ref> [[Henry S. Whitehead]],<ref>{{cite news |author=Dziemianowicz, Stefan R. |title=Whitehead, Henry S(t. Clair) |editor=[[David Pringle]] |work= St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers |location= London |publisher=St. James Press |date=1998 |isbn=1-55862-206-3}}</ref> and  [[Henry Kuttner]] and [[C. L. Moore]], were also influenced by Hodgson's writings.<ref> Murphy, Tim ''William Hope Hodgson and the Rise of the Weird: Possibilities of the Dark''.  Bloomsbury Publishing, London, England, 2023 {{ISBN|9781350365704}}  (p.172).</ref> Modern authors who cite Hodgson as an influence include [[Iain Sinclair]],<ref>{{cite news|author1=Hogdson, William Hope|editor= Newman, Kim|title=The BFI Companion to Horror|location= London|publisher= Cassell|date= 1996|page=157|isbn=0-304-33216-X}}</ref> [[Gene Wolfe]], [[Greg Bear]], [[China Miéville]], [[Simon Clark (novelist)|Simon Clark]], [[Elizabeth Massie]], [[Tim Lebbon]], and [[Brian Keene]].