A. Hyatt Verrill 31 min read

Deep beneath the surface, an explorer meets a cannibalistic race of giant women who regard him with wonder and terror.

A. Hyatt Verrill's 1927 prize-winning story adopts a treatment unlike its fellow winners, carrying its narrator into a hollow-Earth realm of towering, fearful inhabitants. Vivid, characterful lost-world pulp from a prolific naturalist-adventurer who knew how to hold a reader. Read it for classic subterranean-world SF from the pages of early Amazing Stories, told with genuine narrative strength.

In its time

Published in 1927, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

31 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Frank R. Paul