If the Last Redoubt, the Earth-Current, and the looming Watchers captivated you, you’ll love the layered mysteries of Severian’s world in The Shadow of the Torturer. Wolfe unveils a crumbling Urth piece by piece—guilds, megastructures, and forgotten machines—much like Hodgson’s slow revelation of the Night Land’s Houses and pits. As Severian departs Nessus after aiding Thecla, the Botanic Gardens, ancient citadels, and relic devices echo that same eerie sense of immemorial antiquity and power you felt when the narrator skirted the House of Silence and measured each step by the light of the Great Pyramid.

If the telepathic bond with Naani and the arduous quest across the Night Land moved you, Dunsany’s The King of Elfland’s Daughter offers that same ache of devotion stretched across peril and otherworld. Alveric’s pursuit of Lirazel—armed with a witch-forged sword and driven past the twilight border—mirrors the unnamed wanderer’s relentless journey from the Great Redoubt to save Naani after the Lesser Redoubt’s fall. The lush, archaic cadence and the way love bends the laws of realms will feel like a kindred spell.

If you savored the slow, night-by-night progress—counting rations, plotting routes past the Silent Ones and the House of Silence—Engine Summer will reward your patience. Rush That Speaks wanders through a gentled-yet-dangerous aftermath, learning truths piece by piece, much as Hodgson’s narrator learns to read omens in the Night Land. The quiet revelations, the careful attention to small survivals, and the final, uncanny turn echo the measured, haunting momentum of the trek from the Great Redoubt.

If the sunless world beyond the Redoubt, where humanity hangs on under the gaze of Watchers, fired your imagination, Vance’s The Dying Earth offers another end-of-days panorama. Tales of Turjan of Miir, Mazirian the Magician, and Guyal of Sfere roam a world in its last light, where ancient engines and sorceries blur—just as Earth-Current lore and nameless powers do in the Night Land. The sense that every valley hides a relic or a horror will feel instantly familiar.

If skirting the Watchers, passing the Great Pit, and feeling the uncanny pull of the House of Silence enthralled you, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath amplifies that oneiric dread. Randolph Carter’s journey through the dreamlands—past zoogs, ghoul-tunnels with Pickman, and the masquerades of Nyarlathotep—delivers the same surreal menace and awe as the wanderer’s nights in the Night Land. It’s a pilgrimage through forbidden vistas where every marvel is shadowed by something vast and watching.