/lit/ - Literature

>>15977442
The Night Land sounds like exactly what you're looking for. From Lovecraft you should definitely read At the Mountains of Madness. Also The Haunter of the Dark, The Colour Out of Space and The Thing on the Doorstep, though those don't have anything that's described as monolithic – maybe except for the old gothic church in the Haunter. You might also want to check out his dream cycle. The Willows is also a great weird tale and has that sense of mystery done masterfully, maybe better than I've seen anywhere else, though it doesn't have anything monolithic either. Clark Ashton Smith is great too, though I haven't read all of his stories so I can't recommend anything in particular. Maybe try starting with The City of the Singing Flame, it's a good one and has something monolithic and mysterious, though the imagery is light and colorful instead of dark.

>>15369684
The Night Land

>>14277345
Holy shit, what a fucking thing this is. I'm surprised how little it's discussed here considering this is the blueprint for Book of the New Sun

Anyone read this little-known masterpiece?

It was written 100+ years ago and it was way advanced for it's time. Setting is metal as fuck, chain-axe Beowulf cleaving his way through hoards of gibbering subhuman mutants, arcologies, time dilation, geothermal powerplants.

As a setting the author, who was a weight-lifting army captain that was killed in WW1 one year after publishing his book. It's based off the understanding of physics of the time, Lord Kelvin (like the temperature scale) thought stars were masses of gas collapsing under their own gravity and calculated that they only had lifespans of a few million years.

It's modern derivative fanfic works are good too.

http://www.threeleggedfox.co.uk/nightland/nightnarcissus.html Prequel about a beep-boop robot genocidal spider tank philosopher.

http://www.threeleggedfox.co.uk/nightland/nightacross.html Hyper advanced humans in a colonization ship realize the universe is doomed by inherently evil and perverse gods.

What am I in for? All I know is the basic premise and that apparently it's pretty weird.