![]() Humanity still survives in this land of eternal night, however, because of a mystical source of energy known as the Earth-Current. The story is set in a far, distant future, one so incredibly distant that the Sun has burned out, as have in fact all stars in the sky. The Night Land is one of Hodgson’s handful of novels, and is worth a mention not just because of its haunting imagery but also because its premise is relevant to an overarching theme of the weird fiction of the early 1900’s. I remember seeing this film numerous times on Sunday morning ‘Creature Features’. This tale was much later adapted into the Japanese horror movie Matango, more commonly known as The Attack of the Mushroom People. The story The Voice in the Night, for instance, concerns a couple shipwrecked on an island whose only occupant is a corrupting fungus. ![]() He wrote numerous short stories about the sea and its horrors. Hodgson (1877-1918) was a colorful character who turned to weird fiction late in life after, among other things, working as a sailor. One of these is William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land. There are a number of classic works of weird fantasy and horror which have been lost from the mainstream but are well worth a look. ![]()
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