The retelling is still one of the most beautiful love stories ever told. The original has some awesome illustrations but the style is unpleasantly like Lovecraft on drugs. I recommend reading the original first, but please, for sanity's sake, read James Stoddard's excellent modernization instead of the original Hodgson, at least on the first pass. James Brooks, at 932 Broadway, Tuesday evening, December 30, 1862. Hodgson's original does it, though, and Wright's tribute does it even better. Banks, Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars: Life and Culture on the Lower East. This old literature major is also sick of despair, ennui, and existential bleakness in writing, but it's tough to pull off hope and life affirmation without degenerating into nauseating sentimentality. And yet… If that was all there was to the book, I would not have finished it and would not be writing about it now. Kp boken The Night Land, A Story Retold av William Hope Hodgson, James Stoddard (ISBN 9780615508818). Only the Last Redoubt stands free, and its inhabitants know it will inevitably fall and be consumed by the eternal darkness. In the world of the book, the sinister powers of the Night Land, led by the terrifying and enigmatic Silent Ones, rule the Earth, and indeed the entirety of the universe.

Lovecraft's main influences- but not at all despairing. This series of four linked novellas set in the dark, far-future world of William Hope Hodgson's 1912 The Night Land is dark, yes, very dark- Hodgson was one of H.P. When I approached his latest, Awake in the Night Land, I hoped for good things and was not disappointed. The Night Land: A Story Retold by James Stoddard(Goodreads Author)(Adapter), William Hope Hodgson(Creator) 4.18 Rating details 156 ratings 32 reviews An adventure of both science fiction and fantasyone of the great love stories-this is William Hope Hodgson's masterpiece, rewritten for the modern reader.

The worlds he imagines can be stunningly deep and nuanced what he lacks in character development, he more than makes up with idea development, and that's no easy compliment for an old literature major to make. Insofar as he keeps his sometimes repellent politics out of it, his writing is visionary, unique, and compelling. Ever since reading the Golden Age trilogy several years ago, I've been a fan of John C.

The Night Land by James Stoddard