The Night Land is a horror/fantasy novel by English writer William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912.The Night Lands tells the tale of a time, millions of years in the future, when the Sun has gone dark.
Hodgson also published a much shorter version of the novel, entitled The Dream of X (1912).The Night Land was revived in paperback by Ballantine Books, which republished the work in two parts as the 49th and 50th volumes of its Ballantine ...
The fourth book of the five-volume set, The Night Land and Other Romances, collects all of his romances and womens fiction, as well as the entirety of his classic 1912 dying-earth novel The Night Land.
But in the end they did come there with the Road; and they were very Hardy; and they did fight with the Monsters and slay many; and they built them many Cities, through great years in the Mighty Valley, and did make the Road from City unto ...
"Described by H. P. Lovecraft as 'one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written', The Night Lands tells the tale of a time, millions of years in the future, when the Sun has gone dark.
Neither of these is enough for Hodgson to have pursued a novel of such length in this way; he must have had some other purpose in mind.
"Described by H. P. Lovecraft as 'one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written', The Night Lands tells the tale of a time, millions of years in the future, when the Sun has gone dark.
Hodgson also published a much shorter version of the novel, entitled The Dream of X (1912).The Night Land was revived in paperback by Ballantine Books, which republished the work in two parts as the 49th and 50th volumes of its Ballantine ...
These are held back by a Circle of energy, known as the "air clog," powered from the Earth's internal energy.
These are held back by a Circle of energy, known as the "air clog," powered from the Earth's internal energy.
Whatever faults this book may possess, however inordinate its length may seem, it impresses the reader as being the ultimate saga of a perishing cosmos, the last epic of a world beleaguered by eternal night and by the unvisageable spawn of ...
Whatever faults this book may possess, however inordinate its length may seem, it impresses the reader as being the ultimate saga of a perishing cosmos, the last epic of a world beleaguered by eternal night and by the unvisageable spawn of ...
And twice she did come again to sobbing; for, truly, her father was dead and the Peoples of the Lesser Redoubt all slain and dispersed through the night of that Land. And I learned that an Evil Force had made action upon the Peoples ...
The fourth book of the five-volume set, The Night Land and Other Romances, collects all of his romances and women's fiction, as well as the entirety of his classic 1912 dying-earth novel The Night Land.
As a work of fantasy it belongs to the Dying Earth subgenre. Hodgson also published a much shorter version of the novel, entitled The Dream of X.
The inspiration for countless science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels, the book's legions of fans included Clark Ashton Smith, who remarked that "In all literature, there are few works so sheerly remarkable, so purely creative, as The ...
"And I cannot touch her face And I cannot touch her hair, And I kneel to empty shadows- Just memories of her grace; And her voice sings in the winds And in the sobs of dawn And among the flowers at night And from the brooks at sunrise And ...
Hodgson also published a much shorter version of the novel, entitled The Dream of X.H. P. Lovecraft's essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature" describes the novel as "one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written".
Complete and unabridged paperback edition. A famous and early work of fantasy which belongs to the Dying Earth subgenre. First published in 1912.
"The Night Land" from William Hope Hodgson. English author (1877-1918).