The Nightland by William Hope Hodgson.
Here's a quote from H.P.Lovecraft on the subject
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The Night Land (1912) is a long-extended tale of the earth's infinitely remote future-billions of billions of years ahead, after the death of the sun. It is told in a rather clumsy fashion, as the dreams of a man in the seventeenth century, whose mind merges with its own future incarnation; and is seriously marred by painful verboseness, repetitiousness, artificial and nauseously sticky romantic sentimentality...
Allowing for all its faults, it is yet one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written. The picture of a night-black, dead planet, with the remains of the human race concentrated in a stupendously vast metal pyramid and besieged by monstrous, hybrid, and altogether unknown forces of the darkness, is something that no reader can ever forget...
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Personally I didn't find the odd style a problem.
By the same author: Carnaki the Ghost Hunter is collection of highly entertaining ghostly Sherlock Holmes inspired stories; The House on Borderland is very good, visionary, and utterly weird...