John Martin Leahy ~5 hr read

A mysterious visitor tells an impossible story of a hidden world beneath the mountain, and of the perilous, downward way to reach Drome.

John Martin Leahy's 1952 novel (first serialized in Weird Tales in 1925) is a classic hollow-earth lost-world adventure, following an expedition into a subterranean realm of wonder and dread. Atmospheric, imaginative pulp fantasy. Read it for old-school underground exploration in the grand tradition of vanished worlds beneath our feet.

In its time

Published in 1952, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

~5 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).