William Hope Hodgson naci\u00f3 el 15 de noviembre de 1877 en Blackmore End, Essex, Inglaterra. A los trece a\u00f1os, se escap\u00f3 de un internado en Margate con la intenci\u00f3n de hacerse marino. Tras cuatro a\u00f1os de aprendizaje y otros cuatro como profesional, Hodgson lleg\u00f3 a conocer en profundidad la vida marinera, antes de abandonarla decepcionado. En junio de 1905 publica en el Grand Magazine el cuento Un horror tropical, su primera incursi\u00f3n en los terrores marinos. Hodgson logr\u00f3 vivir, mal que bien, de sus relatos, conferencias, fotograf\u00edas y art\u00edculos cient\u00edficos. Poco despu\u00e9s del estallido de la Primera Guerra Mundial, entra en el servicio activo como teniente del ej\u00e9rcito brit\u00e1nico. En octubre de 1917 es enviado a Francia con su compa\u00f1\u00eda, y en abril de 1918 un ob\u00fas alem\u00e1n le borra de la faz de la tierra: ten\u00eda cuarenta a\u00f1os.A lo largo de su breve carrera literaria, escribi\u00f3 un centenar de relatos y cuatro novelas: Los botes del Glen Carrig (1907), La casa en el conf\u00edn de la tierra (1908), Los piratas fantasmas (1909) y El reino de la noche (1912) (todas ellas, salvo la \u00faltima, publicadas en Valdemar). La maestr\u00eda literaria de William Hope Hodgson se pone especialmente de manifiesto en sus historias del mar, en particular las de tema terror\u00edfico o sobrenatural. Una voz en la noche, La nave abandonada, Desde el mar sin mareas, La nave de piedra, Demonios del mar, y otros 30 relatos reunidos en este volumen, nos muestran la capacidad de Hodgson para evocar im\u00e1genes y ambientes tr\u00e1gicos, sobrenaturales y malsanos, y para hacernos sentir la soledad de sus personajes y la insignificancia de sus devenires en la inmensidad de un oc\u00e9ano misterioso y desconocido.Completan la edici\u00f3n una peque\u00f1a selecci\u00f3n de sus poemas del mar, un Diario de a bordo y un interesant\u00edsimo art\u00edculo-cuento, A trav\u00e9s del v\u00f3rtice de un hurac\u00e1n (con fotograf\u00edas realizadas por el propio Hodgson).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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