William Hope Hodgson 
The Night Land 

H. P. Lovecraft’s essay ‘Supernatural Horror in Literature’ describes the novel as ‘one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written’. Clark Ashton Smith wrote of it that ‘In all literature, there are few works so sheerly remarkable, so purely creative, as The Night Land. 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 darkness. Only a great poet could have conceived and written this story; and it is perhaps not illegitimate to wonder how much of actual prophecy may have been mingled with the poesy.’

About the author

One of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written — H.P.Lovecraft. Lovecraft wasn’t wrong: this is, perhaps, the greatest single work of fantastic fiction in the English language. The sun has died, as have the stars. Not a solitary light shines in the heavens. The days of light are nothing by a legend — they are a story told to soothe children. The last millions of humans still live in their Last Redoubt — but the end of their days is at hand.