Summary
Published in 1912, The Night Land is a massive and visionary novel set billions of years in the future, after the sun has died, and Earth lies shrouded in eternal darkness.
Humanity’s last remnants survive in a colossal, pyramid-like fortress called the Last Redoubt, powered by a mysterious energy source. Outside, the world is a hostile wasteland known as the Night Land, populated by grotesque and malevolent entities—the Great Watching Things, Silent Ones, and other unknowable horrors.
The story is told in a faux-archaic style by a reincarnated narrator who recognizes his lost love (from his life in our time) has been reborn in the far future—and is now trapped in a distant fortress, the Lesser Redoubt, under siege. He ventures alone across the Night Land to save her, enduring psychic attacks, monstrous creatures, and cosmic despair, driven by eternal love and a sense of destiny.