The story involves a 17th-century gentleman who loses his wife, the love of his life. When published in 1912, the novel was science fiction well ahead of its time. The Night Land is viewed by many as William Hope Hodgson’s masterpiece. Reading his work is exhilarating and like tapping into the source of science fiction and horror’s best ideas. Hodgson imagined and crafted so many of these tropes as original material. Or so it would seem to me on this end of the literary timeline. From ghost ship stories to derelict spaceships boarded by curious humans who meet a deadly end - the trope has been used a million times. All the men think it is super old, so they go aboard to explore it. His story 'The Derelict' is about a ship that goes off course in a storm, and comes into the proximity of another wrecked ship floating at sea. Take for instance William Hope Hodgson, whom I found on the Horror Babble YouTube Channel. Stories from the 1800's - while a little difficult to get through - are also filled with the rarified raw tropes used by the entire genre. Exploring classic uncanny fiction and horror is fun - I have to admit.
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