Night Land (eBook)

A romance of the far future, in which humankind has relocated underground, where it is beset by monsters from another dimension-but love leads on.In the far future, humankind's survivors huddle below Earth's frozen surface in a pyramidal fortress-city that, for centuries now, has been under siege by loathsome "e;Ab-humans,"e; enormous slugs and spiders, and malevolent "e;Watching Things"e; from another dimension. When our unnamed protagonist receives a telepathic distress signal from a woman whom (in a previous incarnation) he'd once loved, he sallies forth on an ill-advised rescue mission-into the fiend-haunted Night Land!"e;Like certain rare dreams,"e; C. S. Lewis wrote of Hodgson's masterpiece, The Night Land can give "e;sensations we never had before and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience."e; H. P. Lovecraft agreed that this is "e;one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written."e;William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was an English poet, sailor, bodybuilder, and weird fiction pioneer whose horror, fantastic, and proto-sf novels-in addition to The Night Land-include The Boats of the "e;Glen Carrig"e; (1907), The House on the Borderland (1908), and The Ghost Pirates (1909). He also wrote stories in the Sargasso Sea series, the Captain Gault series, and a series about the occult detective Carnacki.