The Night Land, abridged edition

William Hope Hodgson, Erik Davis

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MIT Press
19 September 2023

Science fiction

A romance of the far future, in which humankind has relocated underground, where it is beset by monsters from another dimension-but love leads on.

A romance of the far future, in which humankind has relocated underground, where it is beset by monsters from another dimension-but love leads on.

In the far future, humankind's survivors huddle below Earth's frozen surface in a pyramidal fortress-city that, for centuries now, has been under siege by loathsome ""Ab-humans,"" enormous slugs and spiders, and malevolent ""Watching Things"" from another dimension. When our unnamed protagonist receives a telepathic distress signal from a woman whom (in a previous incarnation) he'd once loved, he sallies forth on an ill-advised rescue mission-into the fiend-haunted Night Land!

""Like certain rare dreams,"" C. S. Lewis wrote of Hodgson's masterpiece, The Night Land can give ""sensations we never had before and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience."" H. P. Lovecraft agreed that this is ""one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written.""

William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was an English poet, sailor, bodybuilder, and weird fiction pioneer whose horror, fantastic, and proto-sf novels-in addition to The Night Land-include The Boats of the ""Glen Carrig"" (1907), The House on the Borderland (1908), and The Ghost Pirates (1909). He also wrote stories in the Sargasso Sea series, the Captain Gault series, and a series about the occult detective Carnacki.

By: William Hope Hodgson, Erik Davis
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 200mm, Width: 133mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262546423
ISBN 10: 0262546426
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 19 September 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Series Foreword vii Introduction: Horror So Wondrous xiii Erik Davis I The Last Redoubt 1 II The Quiet Calling 21 III The Hushing of the Voice 43 IV Into the Night Land 81 V The Way That I Did Go 99 VI The Night Land 115 VII Down the Mighty Slope 189 VIII The Dark Pyramid 213 IX The Maid of the Olden Days 273 X The Homeward Way 311

Erik Davis is the author of High Weirdness- Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies, Nomad Codes, and the cult classic Techgnosis- Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information. Davis currently teaches at Pacifica Graduate Institute. He writes the Substack publication Burning Shore and has completed a history of LSD blotter art for the MIT Press.

Reviews for The Night Land, abridged edition

""An absolutely bonkers masterpiece . . . If Samuel Beckett tripped hard on ayahuasca, he might have come up with something like Hodgson's genre-defying novel. . . . A book I know I’ll read again and revisit in reveries for the rest of my life."" —Weird Studies ""[An] extravagantly baroque vision."" —Washington Post