William Hope Hodgson was a prolific English author who also served in World War I up until his death in 1918. Hodgson produced many classics in the horror, ghost, and fantasy genres of fiction including The House on the Borderland, The Night Land, and Carnacki, the Ghost Finder.The Night Land, published in 1912, is a horror novel that is a classic in the Dying Earth subgenre of fantasy fiction. The book is notable for its creativity and imagination and it influenced other great writers such as H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith.