Have you ever had the longest day?

What about the horror of sensing the days getting shorter?

William Hope Hodgson, today on the Classic Tales podcast.

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And now, The House on the Borderland, part four of five, by William Hope Hodgson.

14. The Sea of Sleep

For a considerable period after the last incident which I have narrated in my diary,

I had serious thoughts of leaving this house and might have done so, but for the great and wonderful thing of which I had serious thoughts of leaving this house, and might have done so, but for the great and wonderful

thing of which I am about to write. How well I was advised in my heart when I stayed on here,

spite those visions and sights of unknown and unexplainable things, for had I not stayed, then I had not seen again

the face of her I loved, yes. Though few know it, none now save my sister Mary, I have loved,

and, ah me, lost.

I would write down the story of those sweet old days, but it would be like the tearing of old wounds.

Yet, after that which has happened, what need have I to care?

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