DESCRIPTION: "'A pig, by Jove!' I said, and rose to my feet. Thus, I saw the thing more completely; but it was no pig—God alone knows what it was. It reminded me, vaguely, of the hideous Thing that had haunted the great arena. It had a grotesquely human mouth and jaw; but with no chin of which to speak. The nose was prolonged into a snout; thus it was that with the little eyes and queer ears, gave it such an extraordinarily swinelike appearance. Of forehead there was little, and the whole face was of an unwholesome white color." (The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson)

NOTES: The Swinefolk are related to the Ab-humans in "The Hog" and The Nightland. Once they perceive the narrator they surround and try to kill him.

HISTORY: The Wellsian stuff in the second half of this book is pretty dull but the first half where the man and his sister are trapped in the house, surrounded by the swinefolk is one of the greatest "bottleneck" stories ever written. Only Hodgson's Great Redoubt in The Nightland can claim to come close. Hodgson obviously had a thing about pigs because he used them in "The Hog" as well.

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