Reviews with content warning for Xenophobia - The House on the Borderland

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I guess this is cosmic horror? Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed it. I can appreciate ye old flavor of writing, and especially liked this story for being brief and to the point. I swear half of them wrote rambling shit like they were getting paid per word, wether that were true or not. I thought the science fiction descriptions of the manuscript portion were cool and interesting from a layperson POV and would rec this book.

PS there's some xenophobia shit about the two men [who are british I think] being real shitty about Irish people and how they speak. It's a brief paragrah but you know, just a friendly heads up for Irish folk. Fuck brits!

It's two men who go on camping trip, find a stone monument and a manuscript half buried in the location. one reads it out loud. its a recounting of a man who

lived in a nearby manor house whose locarion somegow causes the man to experience out of body passage through time. Initially he wanders around his property with his dog and comes across the same stone pit the two men did. Around there is a man with a pig's head. He escapes for now. He goes out again and wanders around his property with his dog who's attacked by the pig man things. The dog is injured but lives, for now. Eventually the Pig Men discover the house where he and his sister live. They launch an assault on the house and the man boards up the windows, etc. The sster is upset about this which leads me to think the dude had a psychotic break of some kind? Which may or may night have happened. It's unclear. The man explores his house a little, falls asleep. He has another out of body experience which takes up the rest of the book. Basically he zips around space as time magically speeds up, allowing him to watch the collapse of the universe. There's a weird green star?? Idk wtf bqq, tbh. There's some shit about his Lost Love and he finds her in space and they cuddle for a while because she has to escape because the Star of Darkness or whatever is coming. The end of that story.

[continued plot spoilers]

Apparently it freaks out one of the men and he acts a lil weird but nothing comes of it. They finish their camping trip, go back to town, and some folks say yeah there was a house there but it's gone now and nobody knows what the fuck happened to it. The end, for real this time.

Oh also the man in the

manuscript sees Dead Old Gods or somethings like it in the Stone Pit that the two men were camping at. Idk.

major animal death, confinement, gun violence, gore, injuries, body horror,

medium gun violence, xenophobia,

minor alcohol,

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