The Night Land

'The Night Land' is a horror-fantasy novel by English writer William Hope Hodgson. As a work of fantasy it belongs to the Dying Earth subgenre. The beginning of the book establishes the framework in which a 17th-century gentleman, mourning the death of his beloved, Lady Mirdath, is given a vision of a far-distant future where their souls will be reunited, and sees the world of that time through the eyes of a future incarnation.