Published in 1912, The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson is a monumental work of speculative fiction that combines elements of cosmic horror, dystopian science fiction, and metaphysical romance. Set in an unimaginably distant future, where the sun has died and the Earth is cloaked in eternal night, the novel is a sprawling, haunting vision of a world teetering on the edge of annihilation. While challenging in its prose style and ambitious in its scope, The Night Land has earned a lasting place in the canon of weird fiction, inspiring later writers such as H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith.