The Night Land

The Night Land is a classic horror novel with tones of fantasy and a dying Earth as the main character. At the time, the nature of the energy source that powers stars were unknown: Lord Kelvin had published calculations giving the Sun a lifetime of only a few tens of millions of years. Starting from this premise, William Hope Hodgson wrote a novel describing a time, millions of years in the future, when the Sun has gone dark and hope is bleak...