- Hardcover
- Publisher: Purple Mouth Pr (March 1995)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0960330038
- ISBN-13: 978-0960330034
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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A new edition of William Hope Hodgson's 1912 masterwork. Millions of years in the future, the last remnant of humanity crowds together within city-pyramids under a dead star, the last redoubts against an increasingly hostile world. Through those treacherous wastes of The Night Land, only the bravest dare travel. But at the end of the world and of the human race, can love still prevail?
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A Flawed Gem,
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This review is from: The Night Land (Paperback)
Hodgson is like David Lindsay ("A Voyage to Arturus"): a terrible writer of leaden prose whose vision is nonetheless so astoundingly overpowering that it compels the reader despite the actual words in which that vision is expressed.Hodgson dealt in horror, I am tempted to say "plain and simple", but Hodgson's horrors are anything but. "The House on the Borderland" is possibly his most distilled essence, though some of the Carnacki tales are also thoroughly shuddersome. But here, in "The Night Land", he has tinctured the sheer horror with that element of anomie and ages-long regret that Jack Vance later so successfully used in his masterly "Dying Earth". If you carry on past the witless (and needless) "dream" opening, the florid language settles in and you can see past it to the monstrous world being painted. The effect is stunning. Had Hodgson's prose been only moderately better, he'd be remembered today as a master. But make no mistake, flaws or not, this is indeed a masterpiece.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant...,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Night Land (Paperback)
Everyone raves about "The Lord of The Rings", but this is the real "grand-daddy" of the "modern" epic adventure. I read this for the first time when I was a young teen-ager (admittedly skipping the more "flowery" bits), and the book's dark and frightening imagery has haunted me ever since. I recently picked up an old copy and re-familiarized myself with it more thoroughly. Yes, the prose is repetitive, and Victorian in style, but it's all part of the experience. It takes a bit of discipline to plow through this tome, but it's worth it - knowing that you've completed reading so difficult and rewarding a book makes you feel good. Think about all the folks who have given up trying to wrestle with it..?! There are very few books written which are able to convey such senses of atmosphere and desolation. This is a book that you either like immensely, or hate completely. Hodgson was brilliant - what a shame that he died so young. Imagine if they made it into a film...WOW!
3.0 out of 5 stars
best setting ever,
By jan erik storebø (norway) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Night Land (Paperback)
the setting in this book is the most powerful in horror. the perversity of mankind's survival, a bleak image of itself, after the sun has died. the description of the land without sun. the intensity in man's life, forever surronded by monsters in a surronding land man has no chance in ever getting back. nothing in horror has affected me more than these horrible descriptions. the morbidity of man's survival. a world without sun. how can you destroy such a story? well, Hodgson can. a love story described in the most stupid way, endless repitions. i walked for two hours. i ate a tablet. i walked again for two hours. ate another tablet. i slept. please. this could have been the best book ever. sigh
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