![]() ![]() Lovecraft called The Night Land âone of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written.â On his journey the narrator is beset by countless horrifying monsters, many of them mutated former-humans. The human survivors soon receive a distress signal sent by a long-forgotten lesser pyramid, and the narrator embarks on a bloody quest to rescue the maiden of the pyramidâwhich he knows to be his lost love, somehow transcending time and space. What remains of humanity lives in titanic mile-high pyramids surrounded by energy shields to protect them from the abhuman monsters lurking in the darkness. He soon discovers himself somehow reanimated in Earthâs far future, millions of years from now, when the sun has died and the Earth has become a hellish waste. Published in 1912, the book introduces a 17th-century gentleman who loses his wife. The Night Land is science fiction ahead of its time. Standard Ebooksġ97,186 words (11 hours 58 minutes) with a reading ease of 64.41 (average difficulty) ![]() The Night Land, by William Hope Hodgson - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. ![]()
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