The House on the Borderland 
(William Hope Hodgson  , 1907)

''I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown. Amid stiff, abrupt sentences I wandered; and, presently, I had no fault to charge against their abrupt tellings; for, better far than my own ambitious phrasing, is this mutilated story capable of bringing home all that the old Recluse, of the vanished house, had striven to tell.'' https://ia600504.us.archive.org/16/items/thehouseonthebor10002gut/10002-h/10002-h.htm