July 17, 2009 According to TrackingB.com, "Re-Animator" director Stuart Gordon's next film won't be the oft-rumored "Thing on the Doorstep." Instead it's a project called "The House on the Borderland," an adaptation of William Hope Hodgson's novel published in 1908, from a screenplay by David Benullo. The novel was apparently an inspiration to H.P. Lovecraft.

The basic storyline: In 1877, two gentlemen, Messrs Tonnison and Berreggnog, head into Ireland to spend a week fishing in the village of Kraighten. While there, they discover in the ruins of a very curious house a diary of the man who had once owned it. Its torn pages seem to hint at an evil beyond anything that existed on this side of the curtains of impossibility.

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