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An armed man outside a steep pyramid, in a dark. desolate landscape

"One of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written" — H.P. Lovecraft

Of the Night Land...

A vision of the far-future Earth

William Hope Hodgson's fiction

A very short introduction

A Mouse in the Walls of the Lesser Redoubt (Part 1)

By Nigel Atkinson

In the Lesser Redoubt, when the Master Monstruwacan dies, his designated successor undergoes an ordeal before he can succeed to his office. But who does he converse with? Are the visions that he sees true showings or false? What choices does he make?

When the last candidate Master Monstruwacan of the Lesser Redoubt undergoes the ordeal — he makes a choice. But is the path he chooses painful yet necessary? Or is it a great betrayal?

A Mouse in the Walls of the Lesser Redoubt (Part 2)

By Nigel Atkinson

There is murder in the Lesser Redoubt. But who is the killer? And why is the Master Monstruwacan seeking a certain child?

A Mouse in the Walls of the Lesser Redoubt (Part 3)

By Nigel Atkinson

Was it mercy that led the Master Monstruwacan to spare the strange, cold, destructive abhuman child, or something else? And what does he search for?

A Mouse in the Walls of the Lesser Redoubt (Part 4)

By Nigel Atkinson

The Master Monstruwacan hasn't kept his secret wholly to himself. But what his confidante now knows -- she wishes she had never learned.

A Mouse in the Walls of the Lesser Redoubt (Part 5)

By Nigel Atkinson

Strange incidents take place in the Lesser Redoubt. The people wax fearful, and then angry. But is the evil from without — or within?

A Mouse in the Walls of the Lesser Redoubt (Part 6)

By Nigel Atkinson

Betrayal -- and madness! Can anything at all survive this?

A Mouse in the Walls of the Lesser Redoubt (Part 7)

By Nigel Atkinson

Behold how heroes die!

A Mouse in the Walls of the Lesser Redoubt (Part 8)

By Nigel Atkinson

Too late, the Master Monstruwacan of the Lesser Redoubt discovers the identity of the creatures he has been dealing with.

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