William Hope Hogdson: The Night Land (1912)

An impressive literary creation of a horrid world. The sun has died out. It is now millions of years in the future. The Earth is frozen and resignedly keeps revolving around her star. The whole surface of the planet is in darkness. Humankind lives in a haven built by itself: the redoubt, a huge and populous pyramidal construction that holds all men and women remaining in this half-dead world.

Away from the Redoubt, and sorrounding it, is the deep darkness, the night land. Ignote paths, valleys, mountains. Also monstrosities wandering by: lovecraftian creatures whose origins, nature or purpose are unknown.

A  man from the past trasports himself or his mind into this distant dark future. He inhabits the redoubt. One day a woman´s voice is heard by telepathy, which reveals there is a second redoubt, also inhabited by people. The mysterious narrator, who has travelled through the ages into the Time of the Dead Sun, will now venture also into the Night Land, in search of the second pyramid.

In Supernatural horror in Literature, Lovecraft praised Hogdson´s The Night Land, if remarking his hard writing style. Which does not at all spoil, as HPL himself reckons, a magnificent weird horror experience.  

The Night Land, 1912. William Hope Hogdson