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The Days of Darkening

Stories set in William Hope Hodgson's cosmos in the era before the Sun has died.

By Nigel Atkinson

A red sky over a cobblestone road that leads past alien plants toward a land of lava.

"People said that the never-ending torment of shredding, grating, tearing metal on naked rock kilometres below was like music. . ."

By Keran Parizek

A blonde woman, dressed in green and holding a blazing plasma staff weapon, standing on a road against a red sky in a rocky volcanic wilderness. There are bizarre plants behind her.

"There had been other occasions when she'd caught the echoes of an undersong within the aether; but not before tonight had its tones carried strongly enough for her to know that she had not imagined it."

By Brett Davidson

A dark blue starry sky. with light on the horizon, over a plain and an observatory.

“You must not die. Hate the darkness as you do. Hate me if I appear as that darkness.”

By James DeWitt

A strange broken tower with spars wrecked on it, beneath a stormy sky.

 "The foe we faced from the Towers was unlike any we have seen..."

By Andy Robertson

A gold glowing nebula.

"Looking for worlds that were forming, that were fortunate, where we could drop a little of our own gold, down low and deep where it was safe."

by Nigel Price

"They told how hounds and humans had lived side by side and fought the common enemy..."

By Deborah Walker

A red sky over a cobblestone road that leads past alien plants toward a land of lava.

"I have done my duty," she said quietly, the words snatched by the relentless wind.

Salvage

Ex Machina