The primary motivation of his body development was not health, but self-defence. His relatively short height and sensitive, almost beautiful face made him an irresistible target for bullying seamen. When they moved in to pulverize him, they would learn too late that they had come to grips with easily one of the most powerful men, pound for pound, in all England.

This story proved an emotional testament beyond all other evidence. Hodgson, whose literary success would be in a large measure based on the impressions he received at sea, actually hated and feared the waters with an intensity that was the passion of his life.

...completes what, perhaps, may be termed a trilogy; for, though very different in scope, each of the three books deals with certain conceptions that have an elemental kinship. This book, the author believes that he closes the door, so far as he is concerned, on a particular phase of constructive thought.

We can only hope that Mr. Hodgson may be induced to reconsider his decision, for we know of nothing like the author's previous work in the whole of present-day literature.

• The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" (1907)
• The House on the Borderland (1908)
• The Ghost Pirates (1909)
• The Night Land (1912)
• The Dream of X (1912) (a 20,000 word abridgement of the 200,000 word novel The Night Land)
• Captain Dang (unfinished)

Order of writing versus order of publication

This concern over the order of composition of the novels may seem of little importance until we consider the implications toward Hodgson's work overall. .. in effect, Hodgson moved away from TNL’s quasi-science fiction scenario (which contained an astounding number of original conceptions) and toward BoGC’s more basic adventure slant.

When he finishes the group with BoGC, Hodgson has managed to rid himself of these affectations of style and produces a book written in a flat but serviceable tone. With each book, Hodgson learns better control of language and more writing savvy and eventually begins to develop his own voice.

...we can only wonder what wonderfully imaginative excesses like The Night Land may have been lost because of an unappreciative public.

Miscellaneous stories

• "The Goddess of Death" (Hodgson's first published story, which appeared in 1904 in Royal Magazine)
• "Terror of the Water-Tank" (first published in 1907 in Blue Book Magazine)
• "Bullion" (first published in 1911 in Everybody's Weekly)
• "The Mystery of the Water-Logged Ship" (first published in 1911 in Grand Magazine)
• "The Ghosts of the Glen Doon" (first published in 1911 in The Red Magazine)
• "Mr. Jock Danplank" (first published in 1912 in The Red Magazine)
• "The Mystery of Captain Chappel" (first published in 1917 in The Red Magazine)
• "The Home-Coming of Captain Dan" (first published in 1918 in The Red Magazine)
• "Merciful Plunder" (first published in 1925 in Argosy-Allstory Weekly)
• "The Haunting of the Lady Shannon" (first published in 1975 in the collection Out of the Storm)
• "The Heathen's Revenge" (first published in 1988 in a chapbook as "The Way of the Heathen")
• "A Tropical Horror" (first published in 1905)
• "The Voice in the Night" (first published in 1907)
• "The Derelict" (first published in 1912)
• "Eloi Eloi Lama Sabachthani" (first published as "The Baumoff Explosive" in 1919)
• "The Shamraken Homeward-Bounder"
• "Out of the Storm"
• "The Albatross"
• "The 'Prentices' Mutiny"
• "The Island of the Crossbones"
• "The Stone Ship"
• "The Regeneration of Captain Bully Keller"
• "The Mystery of Missing Ships"
• "We Two and Bully Dunkan"
• "The Haunted Pampero"
• 'S.O.S.'"
• "Jack Grey, Second Mate"
• "The Smugglers"
• "In the Wailing Gully"
• "The Girl with the Grey Eyes"
• "Kind, Kind and Gentle Is She"
• "A Timely Escape"
• "The Homecoming of Captain Dan"
• "On the Bridge"
• "Through the Vortex of a Cyclone"
• "A Fight with a Submarine"
• "In the Danger Zone"
• "Old Golly"
• "Demons of the Sea"
• "The Wild Man of the Sea"
• "The Habitants of Middle Islet"
• "The Riven Night"
• "The Heaving of the Log"
• "The Sharks of the St. Elmo"
• "Sailormen"
• "By the Lee"
• "The Captain of the Onion Boat"
• "The Sea-Horses"
• "The Valley of Lost Children"
• Modern Warfare"
• "My House Shall Be Called the House of Prayer"
• "Judge Barclay's Wife"
• "How the Honorable Billy Darrell Raided the Wind"
• "The Friendship of Monsieur Jeynois"
• "The Inn of the Black Crow"
• "What Happened in the Thunderbolt"
• "How Sir Jerrold Treyn Dealt with the Dutch in Caunston Cove"
• "Jem Binney and the Safe at Lockwood Hall"
• "Diamond Cut Diamond with a Vengeance"
• "The Room of Fear"
• "The Promise"

Sargasso Sea stories

• "From the Tideless Sea Part One" (first published in 1906 in Monthly Story Magazine)
• Further News of the Homebird" (first published in 1907 in Blue Book Magazine)
• "The Mystery of the Derelict" (first published in 1907 in Story-teller)
• "The Thing in the Weeds" (first published in 1912 in Story-teller)
• "The Finding of the Graiken" (first published in 1913 in The Red Magazine)
• "The Call in the Dawn" (first published as "The Voice in the Dawn" in 1920 in Premier Magazine)

Carnacki stories

• "The Thing Invisible" (first published in 1912 in The New Magazine)
• "The Gateway of the Monster" (first published in 1910 in The Idler)
• "The House Among the Laurels" (first published in 1910 in The Idler)
• "The Whistling Room" (first published in 1910 in The Idler)
• "The Searcher of the End House" (first published in 1910 in The Idler)
• "The Horse of the Invisible" (first published in 1910 in The Idler)
• "The Haunted Jarvee" (first published in 1929 in The Premier Magazine)
• "The Find" (first published in 1947 as part of the Carnacki the Ghost Finder collection)
• "The Hog" (first published in 1947 in Weird Tales)

Captain Jat stories

• "The Island of the Ud" (first published in 1912 in The Red Magazine)
• "The Adventure of the Headland" (first published in 1912 in The Red Magazine)

Captain Gault stories

• "Contraband of War" (first published in 1914 in London Magazine)
• "The Diamond Spy" (first published in 1914 in London Magazine)
• "The Red Herring" (first published in 1914 in London Magazine)
• "The Case of the Chinese Curio Dealer" (first published in 1914 in London Magazine)
• "The Drum of Saccharine" (first published in 1914 in London Magazine)
• "From Information Received" (first published in 1914 in London Magazine)
• "The German Spy" (first published in 1915 in London Magazine)
• "The Problem of the Pearls" (first published in 1915 in London Magazine)
• "The Painted Lady" (first published in 1915 in London Magazine)
• "The Adventure of the Garter" (first published in 1916 in London Magazine)
• "My Lady's Jewels" (first published in 1916 in London Magazine)
• "Trading with the Enemy" (first published in 1916 in London Magazine)
• "The Plans of the Reefing Bi-Plane" (not published until its inclusion in Terrors of the Sea in 1996)

D.C.O. Cargunka stories

• "The Bells of the Laughing Sally" (first published in 1914 in The Red Magazine)
• "The Adventure with the Claim Jumpers" (first published in 1915 in The Red Magazine)

Selected short story collections

• Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder (1913) (collection of short stories)
• Men of the Deep Waters (1914) (collection)
• The Luck of the Strong (1916) (collection)
• Captain Gault, Being the Exceedingly Private Log of a Sea-Captain (1917) (collection)
• Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder (1947) (expanded from the 1913 edition)

• "Amanda Panda"
• "Beyond the Dawning"
• "Billy Ben"
• "Bring Out Your Dead"
• "The Calling of the Sea"
• "Down the Long Coasts"
• "Eight Bells"
• "Grey Seas are Dreaming of My Death"
• "The Hell! Oo! Chaunty" (appears in The Ghost Pirates)
• "I Come Again"
• "I Have Borne My Lord a Son"
• "Listening"
• "Little Garments"
• "Lost"
• "Madre Mia" (appears as the dedication in The Boats of the "Glen Carrig")
• "Mimosa"
• "The Morning Lands"
• "My Babe, My Babe"
• "Nevermore"
• "The Night Wind"
• "O Parent Sea"
• "The Pirates"
• "The Place of Storms"
• "Rest"
• "The Ship"
• "The Sobbing of the Freshwater" (first published in 1912 in London Magazine)
• "The Song of the Great Bull Whale" (first published in 1912 in Grand Magazine)
• "Song of the Ship"
• "Speak Well of the Dead"
• "Storm"
• "Thou Living Sea"
• "To My Father"
• "The Voice of the Ocean"
• "Shoon of the Dead" (appears in The House on the Borderland)
• "Who Make Their Bed in Deep Waters"

Poetry collections

• The Calling of the Sea (published posthumously by Hodgson's widow in 1920)
• The Voice of the Ocean (published posthumously by Hodgson's widow in 1921)
• Poems of the Sea (published in 1977 and collecting the poems from the two previously published collections)
• The Lost Poetry of William Hope Hodgson (published in 2005, edited by Jane Frank, including 43 previously unpublished poems)

• Uncollected Fantasies (1975) (Sam Moskowitz, ed.) The 1975 hardcover edition contains an introductory 100-page essay by Moskowitz about Hodgson's life and work; the paperback reissue lacks the essay.
• The Haunted "Pampero" (1992) (Sam Moskowitz, ed.)
• Terrors of the Sea (Unpublished and Uncollected Fantasies) (1996) (Sam Moskowitz, ed.)
• The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and Other Nautical Adventures: The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson Volume 1 (2004) ISBN 1-892389-39-8
• The House on the Borderland and Other Mysterious Places: The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson Volume 2 (2004) ISBN 1-892389-40-1
• The Ghost Pirates and Other Revenants of the Sea: The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson Volume 3 (2005) ISBN 1-892389-41-X
• The Night Land and Other Romances: The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson Volume 4 (2005) ISBN 1-892389-42-8
• The Dream of X and Other Fantastic Visions: The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson Volume 5 (2009) ISBN 1-892389-43-6
• Adrift on The Haunted Seas: The Best Short Stories of William Hope Hodgson (2005) (Douglas A. Anderson, ed.)
• The Lost Poetry of William Hope Hodgson (published in 2005, edited by Jane Frank, including 43 previously unpublished poems)
• The Wandering Soul: Glimpses of a Life: A Compendium of Rare and Unpublished Works (2005), edited by Jane Frank. This volume contains photographs, articles, and essays by and about Hodgson, including an essay on bodybuilding, one of his sailing logs, and his obituary.