"Night Piece" is a science fiction short story by American writer Poul Anderson, first published in the July 1961 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

[1] The story takes place over the span of a few hours during one night.

He is haunted by perceptions of another world, and creatures in it who appear to be malevolent.

He interprets his visions as reflections of an ongoing struggle in the Superiors' world and finds himself both attracted and repelled by what he sees.

In The Worlds of Science Fiction,[2] the author wrote It's quite unlike anything else I've done...I have no pretensions to being a Kafka or a Capek, but it did seem to me it would be interesting to use, or attempt to use, some of their techniques.