{"product_id":"the-night-land-abridged-edition-9780262546423","title":"The Night Land, Abridged Edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eA romance of the far future, in which humankind has relocated underground, where it is beset by monsters from another dimension--but love leads on.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the far future, humankind's survivors huddle below Earth's frozen surface in a pyramidal fortress-city that, for centuries now, has been under siege by loathsome \"Ab-humans,\" enormous slugs and spiders, and malevolent \"Watching Things\" from another dimension. When our unnamed protagonist receives a telepathic distress signal from a woman whom (in a previous incarnation) he'd once loved, he sallies forth on an ill-advised rescue mission--into the fiend-haunted Night Land! \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Like certain rare dreams,\" C. S. Lewis wrote of Hodgson's masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eThe Night Land\u003c\/i\u003e can give \"sensations we never had before and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.\" H. P. Lovecraft agreed that this is \"one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWilliam Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was an English poet, sailor, bodybuilder, and weird fiction pioneer whose horror, fantastic, and proto-sf novels--in addition to \u003ci\u003eThe Night Land\u003c\/i\u003e--include \u003ci\u003eThe Boats of the \"Glen Carrig\"\u003c\/i\u003e (1907), \u003ci\u003eThe House on the Borderland\u003c\/i\u003e (1908), and \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost Pirates\u003c\/i\u003e (1909). He also wrote stories in the Sargasso Sea series, the Captain Gault series, and a series about the occult detective Carnacki.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eErik Davis is the author of \u003ci\u003eHigh Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies, Nomad Codes\u003c\/i\u003e, and the cult classic \u003ci\u003eTechgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information\u003c\/i\u003e. Davis currently teaches at Pacifica Graduate Institute. He writes the Substack publication \u003ci\u003eBurning Shore\u003c\/i\u003e and has completed a history of LSD blotter art for the MIT Press.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50706412372242,"sku":"9780262546423","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_005f09f0-e788-438c-8843-504c5cf127ea.jpg?v=1765356521","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-night-land-abridged-edition-9780262546423","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}