SimianOverlord's Journal: P23 5S

And anon, I would look upward, and see the grey, metalled mountain going up measureless into the gloom of the everlasting night; and from my feet the sheer downward sweep of the grim, metal walls, six full miles, and more, to the plain below.

William Hope Hodgsen, The Night Land

The Ghost Pirates was pretty good. It'd make a good movie, I was thinking.