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The Night Land Website
Reader site with background material, art, fiction, and links.
William Hope Hodgson · 1912
The Night Land
The complete original text, newly typeset in a sewn cloth hardcover.
Cloth edition · proposed price $49 + shippingHelp bring this edition to print. Reservations are free and non-binding.
“One of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written.”H. P. Lovecraft
The planned cloth edition
A sewn
cloth hardcover.
Dark-blue cloth, gold-colored foil, and a printed dust jacket. Final specifications are subject to proofing.
- Text
- Complete and unabridged
- Interior
- 55 lb book paper
- Binding
- Section-sewn hardcover
- Case
- Dark-blue cloth with gold-colored foil stamping
- Jacket
- Printed full-wrap dust jacket
- Size
- 6 × 9 in
- Length
- Approximately 450 pages
- Proposed price
- $49 + shipping not final
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Other Editions, Further Reading & Resources
Selected places to read more about The Night Land, hear it discussed, or find another edition.
Podcast
Weird Studies 154: Into the Night Land
Phil Ford and J. F. Martel discuss the novel with Erik Davis.
Game
The Night Land tabletop RPG
The Company Studio’s in-development roleplaying game expanding Hodgson’s Night Land.
Fiction
John C. Wright, Awake in the Night Land
Four novellas set in Hodgson’s Night Land, collected by John C. Wright.
Hodgson
Lovecraft eZine on William Hope Hodgson
A review of Voices from Beyond the Borderland, with discussion of The Night Land.
Edition
MIT Press Radium Age edition
2023 abridged paperback, introduced by Erik Davis.
Edition
Dover Doomsday Classics edition
2015 trade-paperback edition.
Edition
Ballantine Adult Fantasy edition
Influential two-volume 1972 reissue, introduced by Lin Carter.
Free text
Project Gutenberg
The complete public-domain text in several digital formats.
Retelling
James Stoddard’s The Night Land: A Story Retold
A modern-language retelling, with samples and book information.
Status
Gathering interest.
Printing depends on demand. The proposed price is $49 plus shipping; final costs and dates are still to be confirmed.
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