The Night Land

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And I caught Mirdath the Beautiful by her shoulders, and shook her very soundly, in my anger And afterward, I sent the maid onward and she, having no word from her Mistress to stay, went forward a little and in this fashion we came at last to the hedge gap, with the Lady Mirdath very hushed but yet walking anigh to me, as that she had some secret pleasure of my nearness And I led her through the gap, and so homeward to the Hall and there bid her good night at a side door that she held the key of And, truly, she bid me good night in an utter quiet voice and was almost as that she had no haste to be gone from me that night. Free Read [ The Night Land ] By [ William Hope Hodgson ] – kino-fada.fr The hideous creatures crawl in the eternal darkness, in this unknown alien world, but in reality sick old Earth , in its last inglorious daysThe 17th Century tortured gentleman arrives here, just after losing his beloved wife Lady Mirdath, and baby during childbirth The setting, yes Earth, eons of years in the future, when the dead Sun and stars have gone out, an unshining and unseen moon, also orbits the ugly planet No daylight, perpetual night, monsters and things roam the territory and m The hideous creatures crawl in the eternal darkness, in this unknown alien world, but in reality sick old Earth , in its last inglorious daysThe 17th Century tortured gentleman arrives here, just after losing his beloved wife Lady Mirdath, and baby during childbirth The setting, yes Earth, eons of years in the future, when the dead Sun and stars have gone out, an unshining and unseen moon, also orbits the ugly planet No daylight, perpetual night, monsters and things roam the territory and millions of huma... A modern man starts receiving psychic messages from hundreds of thousands of years in Earth s future messages from himself The sun is dying, the world is filled with horrific monsters, and the last remnants of humanity have locked themselves away in a vast pyramid to await the death of their world in peace They peer out from countless windows at the awful monstrosities which beat at the gates, who want nothing so much as to kill every man, woman, and child within Then, one day, they receive A modern man starts receiving psychic messages from hundreds of thousands of years in Earth s future messages from himself The sun is dying, the world is filled with horrific monsters, and the last remnants of humanity have locked themselves away in a vast pyramid to await the death of their world in peace They peer out from countless windows at the awful monstrosities which beat at the gates, who want nothing so much as to kill every man, woman, and child within Then, one day, they receive a message, from far beyond the monstrous lands someone ...Yes yesthe writing style is obnoxious and the constant repetition is grating, but as a reader what would you rather have 1 A well paced and readable thriller of a book that causes you no pain, but is soon forgotten and is in verity a mediocrity 2 Or a book that infuriates you and tries your patience to the utmost degree, but is at its core a true original and one of the most remarkable feats of imagin...One of the greatest love stories ever written This is a SYMBOLIST work, other reviewers here who don t understand that are demi morons This is Amor, A Mor, Without Death, as Serrano defined it, not the mundane love of boyfriend and girlfriend.Disappointing I was excited to read this after experiencing The House on the Borderland but this severely dragged.The beginning to this novel is supremely evocative a world in darkness due to the absence of the sun, lit from within by flaming pits and powered by a type of geothermal energy The landscape is visionary, the creatures suitably monstrous and unsettling from slug like behemoths to the vile and base Humpt men After the initial world building the descriptive fervour wanes and we ar Disappointing I was excited to read this after experiencing The House on the Borderland but this severely dragged.The beginning to this novel is supremely evocative a world in darkness due to the absence of the sun, lit from within by flaming pits and powered by a type of geothermal energy The landscape is visionary,...Millions of years into the future when the sun has ceased to shine and most of the world is overrun by strange demonic beasts, the remnants of mankind hold out inside a mighty pyramid fueled by the earth current in which the beasts cannot enter No one who ever ventures out ever comes back and since they have all they need inside their redoubt, not many bother.At first this seemed to be a story about a man who is telepathically contacted by a woman who he remembers from a former life, and was Millions of years into the future when the sun has ...A five star rating elsewhere is a perfect score, but as on Goodreads it signifies amazing I unequivocally cast such a rating As most Hodgson aficionados would admit, The Night Land is a flawed jewel The prose is clumsy and laboured, the repetition is vitiating and the second half of the book sags due to a mix of turgid storytelling and limited content, but Hodgson s transmutation of the ghost story into a fantasy epic is also ingenious, awe inspiring and without comparison Not an easy boo A five star rating elsewhere is a perfect score, but as on Goodreads it signifies amazing I unequivocally cast such a rating As most Hodgson aficionados would admit, The Night Land is a flawed jewel The prose is clumsy and laboured, the repetition is vitiating and the second half of the book sags due to a mix of turgid storytelling and limited content, but Hodgson s transmutation of the ghost story into a fantasy ...It was in the Olden Days of the dawn of the world that I didst stumble across a copy of this book at the Lovecraft Arts Sciences store in Providence, Rhode Island, a city anigh to both mine own redoubt and also mine own Heart Obviously I was aware of the book s reputation what with Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith being professed fans , and had recently seen it discussed at the Ligotti forums, and now lo there it was on the shelf before me So didst I purchase it very quickly, though pu It was in the Olden Days of the dawn of the world that I didst stumble across a copy of this book at the Lovecraft Arts Sciences store in Providence, Rhode Island, a city anigh to both mine own redoubt and also mine own Heart Obviously I was aware of the book s reputation what with Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith being professed fans , and had recently seen it discussed at the Ligotti forums, and now lo there it was on the shelf before me So didst I purchase it very quickly, though put off reading it until recently, for divers reasons This book is truly of those rarest of beasts a novel I feel that I cannot give a star rating to, as truly mine own feelings for it are quite conflicted, and in verity, I m still not sure if I could call this book a Masterpiece of the Imagination or one of the most boring novels I ve ever read I will say that it was, by far, one of the most exhausting novels I ve ever read, and by the end of it didst seem as if I had literally walked every damn...William Hope Hodgson s epic novel The Night Land was chosen for inclusion in Cawthorn Moorcock s Fantasy The 100 Best Books, and yet in this overview volume s sister collection, Horror 100 Best Books, Jones Newman surprisingly declare the novel to be unreadable No less a critic than H.P Lovecraft pronounced The Night Land to be one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written, and yet still insists that the last quarter of the book drags woefully W William Hope Hodgson s epic novel The Night Land was chosen for inclusion in Cawthorn Moorcock s Fantasy The 100 Best Books, and yet in this overview volume s sister collection, Horror 100 Best Books, Jones Newman surprisingly declare the novel to be unreadable No less a critic than H.P Lovecraft pronounced The Night Land to be one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written, and yet still insists that the last quarter of the book drags woefully With critics seemingly split down the middle regarding this novel, I manfully plunged into this book s 400 page story, having greatly enjoyed four previous Hodgson titles The Boats of the Glen Carrig 1907 , The House on the Borderland 1908 , The Ghost Pirates 1909 and t...Critics have repeatedly pointed out the imperfections of this novel Curiously, The Night Land s critics are frequently its fans as well That ought to tell you something about how strong its strong points are That these critic fans also offer the novel s originality as one of its primary assets, ought to tell you something about how unusual it really is This novel is a strange animal When it was published, in 1912, the ghost story was alive and well at that time, perhaps already starting to Critics have repeatedly pointed out the imperfections of this novel Curiously, The Night Land s critics are frequently its fans as well That ought to tell you something about how strong its strong points are That these critic fans also offer the novel s originality as one of its primary assets, ought to tell you something about how unusual it really is This novel is a strange animal When it was published, in 1912, the ghost story was alive and well at that time, perhaps already starting to look a bit hackneyed vampire stories not unheard of science fiction, though perh...

The Night Land
  • English
  • 23 December 2018
  • Paperback
  • 357 pages
  • 1587156040
  • William Hope Hodgson
  • The Night Land