# The Dead — The House on the Borderland character guide

> The Dead in The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0012-ix-in-the-cellars

## Who they are

Ghostly or spectral figures encountered in the house or visions.

## Relationships

### [Hush](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_house_on_the_borderland_se/characters/hush)

_psychological_

Hush and the Dead are both spectral entities that share a silent, menacing presence in the Recluse's haunted house.

## In the story

### [Dedication](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_house_on_the_borderland_se/chapters/dedication)

Referenced as the 'Dead' whose shoon tread the lost aeons.

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