Help me find this Fantasy book trilogy..

[LegionofBrad]

I'm looking for a book that i started reading when i was kid but i only got half way through but i can't for the life of me remember what it was called.

I made it nearly all through book one. Then premise of this book was that it was set in one long night. Vampires/monsters had taken over the city and a solo hero is making his way towards a central pyramid having come back to the city after a time away looking for his betrothed. I think when he finds her she's been sold and is being used as a whore, and she may or may not have been a princess. I can't remember much else however I do know that the later books in the series they have left the city etc.


Does anyone have any ideas?

 

[chrispenycate]

I'm afraid I don't recognise your book, but I have moved it into "Book search", where it's more likely to get attention from members who specialise in this.

 

[CassFrank]

Sounds similar to William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912 - but frequently reprinted and popular in ‘60 and ‘70s).

Wiki: “The Sun has gone out and the Earth is lit only by the glow of residual vulcanism. The last few millions of the human race are gathered together in the Last Redoubt, a gigantic metal pyramid, nearly eight miles high, which is under siege from unknown forces and Powers outside in the dark. These are held back by a shield known as the "air clog", powered from a subterranean energy source called the "Earth Current". For thousands of years vast living shapes known as the Watchers have waited in the darkness near the pyramid. It is thought that they are waiting for the inevitable time when the Circle's power finally weakens and dies. Other living things have been seen in the darkness, some of unknown origins, and others that may once have been human. Hodgson uses the term "Abhuman" to name several different species of intelligent beings evolved from humans who interbred with alien species or adapted to changed environmental conditions, and are seen as decayed or maligned by those living inside the Last Redoubt.

To leave the protection of the Circle means almost certain death, or, worse, destruction of the soul. The narrator establishes mind contact with an inhabitant of a forgotten Lesser Redoubt. First, one expedition sets off to succour the inhabitants of the Lesser Redoubt, whose own Earth Current has been exhausted, only to meet with disaster. After that the narrator sets off alone into the darkness to find the girl he has made contact with, knowing now that she is the reincarnation of his past love.”

 

[hitmouse]

It sounds like a derivative ripoff off The Nightland with extra sex and violence from the description. The Hope Hodgson book is really very chaste.