I like to ask this question every few months.
Currently reading Life of Pi by Yang Martel. Saw the movie a few months ago and wanted to read the book. The one I just finished was called Black Ice by Michael Connelly. It’s one of the Bosch books.
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Sounds very interesting. Especially to have been written in 1912
Indeed, there's a lot of interesting parallels with 40k in the book. It's a hard read though, you have to get in the groove of reading the repetitive 17th century diary style. His novel House on the Borderland is an easier read, and highly influential to the likes of H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith.
Ahhh. I though I recognized the name. I have read House on the Borderlands when I was trying to read pre-Lovecraft sci-horror. It was enjoyable.
You'd be surprised - a hundred years earlier, inspired by the Year Without a Summer of 1816, Lord Byron wrote a poem called "Darkness", that I've frequently seen quoted as a possible inspiration for Hodgson:
The Night Land is a weird book, in that it's incredible despite its prose and writing style, not because of it. Even a hundred years later, it stands out for not being like our world and culture with one or two sci-fi changes, but being something else.
Cool!!