"The sun has died, as have the stars. Not a solitary light shines in the heavens. The days of light are nothing but 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. ... Beyond the Last Redoubt, though, the world is a mystery as unknowable as the depths of space. Bits of it still live-- there are creatures in the endless darkness remotely akin to humanity. Fires burn and shadows creep; cities and lights lie still; clothed and shrouded walkers glide in the darkness. Other creatures, vaster than hills and slower and more ponderous than glaciers, wait eternally for some unknowable apocalypse. Forces stir in the darkness. Messages pass across the Land. From their tower above the Redoubt, the Monstruwacians record it all--Publisher's description."
"The Night Land is a classic horror novel by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912. As a work of fantasy it belongs to the Dying Earth subgenre. H.P. Lovecraft's described 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 ... 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 ..."@en