William Hope Hodgson,
The House on the Borderland — Author's Introduction To The Manuscript
(1908)
“ It lies before you. The inner story must be uncovered, personally, by each reader, according to ability and desire. And even should any fail to see, as now I see, the shadowed picture and conception of that to which one may well give the accepted titles of Heaven and Hell; yet can I promise certain thrills, merely taking the story as a story. ”
