"The Night Land" is a dark and imaginative novel written by William Hope Hodgson. Set in a far-future Earth, the story takes place in a world shrouded in perpetual darkness, where the last remnants of humanity live within a colossal pyramid-like structure called the Last Redoubt. This structure serves as protection against the sinister creatures that roam the night, as well as the even greater threat known as the Watching Things.

The story follows an unnamed narrator who communicates through ...