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The Recluse
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The Recluse

from The House on the Borderland

An elderly, intellectual man living in a desolate, ancient house in the Irish wilderness. Initially skeptical of the house's supernatural reputation but forced to confront terrifying cosmic realities through involuntary visions and physical attacks by alien entities. His physical being eventually decays from accelerated time, leaving him a bodiless consciousness.

Personality Traits

IntrospectiveReclusiveObservantStoic (initially)PhilosophicalCurious (to his detriment)Brave (out of necessity)DespairingTerrifiedHaunted
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About The Recluse

The Recluse is a protagonist character in William Hope Hodgson's classic novel "The House on the Borderland" (1908). An elderly, intellectual man living in a desolate, ancient house in the Irish wilderness. Initially skeptical of the house's supernatural reputation but forced to confront terrifying cosmic realities through involuntary visions and physical attacks by alien entities. His physical being eventually decays from accelerated time, leaving him a bodiless consciousness.

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