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The Night Land

The Night Land

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Number of Chapters: 32

Length: 18 hours and 54 minutes

Language: English

The Sun has gone out and the Earth is lit only by the glow of residual vulcanism. The last few millions of the human race are gathered together in a gigantic metal pyramid, nearly eight miles high – the Last Redoubt, under siege from unknown forces and Powers outside in the dark. These are held back by a Circle of Energy, known as the "air clog", powered from a subterranean energy source called the "Earth Current". For millennia, vast living shapes—the Watchers—have waited in the darkness near the pyramid. It is thought they are waiting for the inevitable time when the Circle's power finally weakens and dies. Other living things have been seen in the darkness beyond, some of unknown origins, and others that may once have been human.

To leave the protection of the Circle means almost certain death, or worse an ultimate destruction of the soul. As the story commences, the narrator establishes mind contact with an inhabitant of another, forgotten Lesser Redoubt. First one expedition sets off to succor the inhabitants of the Lesser Redoubt, whose own Earth Current has been exhausted, only to meet with disaster. After that the narrator sets off alone into the darkness to find the girl he has made contact with, knowing now that she is the reincarnation of his past love.

H. P. Lovecraft describes the novel as "one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written". Clark Ashton Smith wrote of it that "In all literature, there are few works so sheerly remarkable, so purely creative, as The Night Land. - Summary by Wikipedia

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Chapter I - Mirthdath the Beautiful (Mark Nelson)
Chapter II - The Last Redoubt (Mark Nelson)
Chapter III - The Quiet Calling (Mark Nelson)
Chapter IV - The Hushing of the Voice, Part 1 (Mark Nelson)
Chapter IV - The Hushing of the Voice, Part 2 (Mark Nelson)
Chapter V - Into the Night Land (Mark Nelson)
Chapter VI - The Way That I Did Go (Mark Nelson)
Chapter VII - The Night Land, Part 1 (Mark Nelson)
Chapter VII - The Night Land, Part 2 (Mark Nelson)
Chapter VII - The Night Land, Part 3 (Mark Nelson)
Chapter VIII - Down the Mighty Slope (Mark Nelson)
Chapter IX - The Dark Pyramid, Part 1 (Mark Nelson)
Chapter IX - The Dark Pyramid, Part 2 (Mark Nelson)
Chapter IX - The Dark Pyramid, Part 3 (Mark Nelson)
Chapter X - The Maid of the Olden Days, Part 1 (Mark Nelson)
Chapter X - The Maid of the Olden Days, Part 2 (Mark Nelson)
Chapter XI - The Homeward Way, Part 1 (Mark Nelson)
Chapter XI - The Homeward Way, Part 2 (Mark Nelson)
Chapter XII - Downward of the Gorge, Part 1 (Mark Nelson)
Chapter XII - Downward of the Gorge, Part 2 (Mark Nelson)
Chapter XII - Downward of the Gorge, Part 3 (Mark Nelson)
Chapter XIII - Homeward by the Shore, Part 1 (Mark Nelson)
Chapter XIII - Homeward by the Shore, Part 2 (Mark Nelson)
Chapter XIII - Homeward by the Shore, Part 3 (Mark Nelson)
Chapter XIII - Homeward by the Shore, Part 4 (Mark Nelson)
Chapter XIV - On the Island, Part 1 (Mark Nelson)
Chapter XIV - On the Island, Part 2 (Mark Nelson)
Chapter XV - Past the House of Silence, Part 1 (Mark Nelson)
Chapter XV - Past the House of Silence, Part 2 (Mark Nelson)
Chapter XVI - In the Country of Silence, Part 1 (Mark Nelson)
Chapter XVI - In the Country of Silence, Part 2 (Mark Nelson)
Chapter XVII - The Love Days (Mark Nelson)
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