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The Last Redoubt

Stories set in William Hope Hodgson's cosmos after humanity has taken refuge in the immense pyramidal arcology known as the Last Redoubt.

By William Hope Hodgson

An armed man outside a tall pyramid in green mist.

"It was not as if I dreamed; but, as it were, that I waked there into the dark, in the future of this world. And the sun had died..."

By Nigel Atkinson

A variety of butterflies on a dark background.

The Guild of Lepidopterists grew to seven million strong, but still remained one of the smallest of the underground guilds. Five years of endless labour, convoluted planning and desperate racing against time...

By Mark Valentine

A man in old-fashioned dress writing with a quill at a desk.

"I in my tower, staring out, with that keen dread sense telling me of the vast presences outside, and of their slow, deliberate ranging toward my house..."

By Nigel Brown

A black-and-white line drawing of stairways and confusing architecture.

"After a hundred thousand years, it was time to clear out these Levels of the Long Siege?—?the lowest half-mile of the Pyramid that had borne the greatest brunt of attacks from the Night Land."

By Gerard Houarner

People and a giant outside a baroque and ornate house, in darkness, beneath a lone green star.

"He still walks the Night Lands — alive, human. I must go to him, bring him back."

By Welleran

A man and a woman outside a baroque, spooky house in a dark land.

Dressed all in black as we are, and hooded, it is easy to dismiss sightings of our activities as the actions of strange new monsters. Still, secrecy is the First Stricture...

By Carole Carmen

A man and a cloaked woman confront a high, ominous, gabled Gothic house, beside a road in darkness.

In recent years, a tall figure in shattered grey armour has been seen wandering the Road Where The Silent Ones Walk. It is not known if this is a True Human — scholars continue to debate. But he has become known to all as The Seeker.

Eater

A Mouse in the Walls of the Lesser Redoubt