The Night Land – William Hope Hodgson (1912)

Imagine a dying Earth under a black sun, humanity huddled in the last great pyramid, and monstrous shapes prowling the darkness outside. Hodgson’s The Night Land is part cosmic horror, part doomed romance, and all nightmare.<br />It’s written in archaic prose that feels like translating a dream — dense, hypnotic, and sometimes ridiculous. But no other fantasy novel captures this sense of deep-time despair and the stubborn hope of a species refusing extinction.

Rating: 5 / 5