William Hodgson

The Night Land William Hodgson First Edition, First edition

Marc Notes: Originally published: Doylestown: Wildside, 2004.; In the distant future, the sun has expired and the Earth's few million survivors are clustered in a gigantic pyramid, under siege from unknown forces. This groundbreaking 1912 fantasy recounts a heroic search for life beyond the darkness. Biographical Note: English author William Hope Hodgson (1877 1918) wrote essays, short fiction, and novels of many genres, including horror, fantasy, and science fiction."Publisher Marketing: ""The Night Land" is a tale of the remote future billions of years after the death of the sun. It is one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written . . . there is a sense of cosmic alienage, breathless mystery, and terrified expectancy unrivalled in the whole range of literature . . . this fantasy of a night-black, dead planet, with the remains of the human race concentrated in a stupendously vast metal pyramid and besieged by monstrous, hybrid, and altogether unknown forces of darkness, is something that no reader can forget." H. P. Lovecraft. The tale of a heroic search for life beyond the darkness, this groundbreaking 1912 story was the first work of modern fantasy to feature a dying Earth. 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 Night Land.""" Contributor Bio:  Hodgson, William Hope William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was born in Essex but moved several times with his family, including a stint in County Galway in Ireland - a setting that would later inspire The House on the Borderland. After some initial rejections of his writing work, Hodgson managed to become a full time writer of both novels and short stories, which form a fantastic legacy of adventure, mystery and horror fiction.