On a fishing trip to rural Ireland two holidaymakers discover an unusually shaped house by a large lake. Inside the house they discover a terrifying journal... ...in it the house's previous occupant sells of experiencing terrifying visions and of travelling across dimesions to a vast arena... ... he also tells of an attack by a brutal swine-creature and of a descent into Hell... William Hope Hodgson's novel is a break from the regular Gothic horror style of his time, delivering a more visceral and immediate horror.