“By millions of years, time winged onward through eternity, to the end - the end, of which, in the old-earth days, I had thought remotely, and in hazily speculative fashion. And now, it was approaching in a manner of which none had ever dreamed.” YearsEndsEarthMillionsFashionEternityApocalypseEarth Day Book:The House on the Borderland: Horror Stories Collections Source: The House on the Borderland: Horror Stories Collections
“The world was held in a savage gloom - cold and intolerable. Outside, all was quiet - quiet! From the dark room behind me, came the occasional, soft thud of falling matter - fragments of rotting stone. So time passed, and night grasped the world, wrapping it in wrappings of impenetrable blackness.” WorldMatterNightFallDarkRoomsBehindsColdQuietStonesSavagesApocalypseFragmentsOccasionalGloomBlacknessTime PassesRottingWrappingDark Room Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Hope Hodgson (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Hope Hodgson (Illustrated)