David Lindsay ~7 hr read

A séance leads to a journey to a distant star, and one of the strangest philosophical fantasies ever written.

David Lindsay's 1920 masterpiece flings Maskull across space to the world of Tormance, where he passes through a succession of bizarre landscapes, new senses, and new moralities, each testing his soul on the way to a shattering truth. Baffling, visionary, and utterly singular, it profoundly shaped C. S. Lewis, Harold Bloom, and countless others. Read it for a one-of-a-kind cosmic pilgrimage that reads like nothing else in the genre.

In its time

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

Reading it

~7 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).