People’s Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos: Cosmic Horror, Lovecraft, Weird Fiction

William Hope Hodgson’s 'The Night Land' part 3

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension.
It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls.
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William Hope Hodgson’s 'The Night Land' part 2

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension.
It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls.
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William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land part 1

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension.
It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls.
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Mr. Spaceship

"Mr. Spaceship" is a science fiction novelette by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in Imagination in January 1953.
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The Whisperer in Darkness/The Lighthouse

 
The Whisperer in Darkness is a novella by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written February–September 1930, it was first published in Weird Tales, August 1931.
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The Variable Man part 2

"The Variable Man" is a science fiction novella by American writer Philip K. Dick, which he wrote and sold before he had an agent. It was first published in Space Science Fiction September 1953.
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The Dunwich Horror(HP Lovecraft)/The Final Girls(2015)

"The Dunwich Horror" is a cosmic horror novella by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in 1928, it was first published in the April 1929 issue of Weird Tales.
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The Variable Man part 1

"The Variable Man" is a science fiction novella by American writer Philip K. Dick, which he wrote and sold before he had an agent. It was first published in Space Science Fiction September 1953
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The Festival(HP Lovecraft)/Jennifer's Body(2009)

"The Festival" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft written in October 1923 and published in the January 1925 issue of Weird Tales.
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The Hanging Stranger/The Eyes Have It/The Gun

"The Hanging Stranger" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in December 1953 issue of Science Fiction Adventures. "The Eyes Have It" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1953 June Science Fiction Stories. "The Gun" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1952 September issue of Planet Stories
 
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Cyberpunk(Bruce Bethke)/Who Framed Roger Rabbit(1988)

Bruce Bethke 1980, 1997"Cyberpunk" was first published in Amazing Science Fiction Stories, Volume 57, Number 4, November 1983.>>>LINK TO SHORT STORY<<<
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Piper in the Woods/The Crystal Crypt

 
"Piper in the Woods" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in the February 1953 edition of Imagination. "The Crystal Crypt" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in the January 1954 edition of Planet Stories.
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