Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 +MULTI+2.11; site stc.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!pesnta!pyramid!decwrl!decvax!bellcore!petrus!sabre!zeta!epsilon!gamma!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!gatech!seismo!mcvax!ukc!stc!pete From: pete@stc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Help! I need to know!! Message-ID: <745@stc-b.stc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 20-Dec-85 05:18:10 EST Article-I.D.: stc-b.745 Posted: Fri Dec 20 05:18:10 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Dec-85 01:47:15 EST References: <503@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> <339@muddcs.UUCP> Organization: STC Telecoms, London N11 1HB. Lines: 31 Xpath: stc stc-b stc-b stc-a > This is another I need to know about book which has haunted me for a few years > now. It's an old book which was reprinted in a series of old time classics > under Lynn Carter, who wrote the introduction. The authors last name started > with an H. ( Hamiltion ??) > > The book is almost morbid, taking place very far in the future. The hero > dreams his way there, I think. All of humanity has taken refuge in a large Our mailer bounced your address so I'm posting this. The answer is 'The Night Land' by William Hope Hodgson. Strongly recommended if you can take the laboured olde-worlde language. See also 'The House on the Borderland'. This is shorter and more directly horrific. Also very good. I haven't read his sea stories 'The Boats of the Glen Carrig' and some others or his 'Carnacki (sp?) the Ghost Finder' series. They were all mostly written in the 1900-1920 period. Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New Year from - -- Peter Kendell ...!mcvax!ukc!stc!pete `I've suffered for my art. Now it's your turn.'