Robert W. Chambers ~5 hr read

A dedicated naturalist for a zoological society is sent to capture impossible creatures, a living auk, a strange amphibious 'harbor-master,' and stranger things still.

Robert W. Chambers's 1904 novel (by the author of 'The King in Yellow') is a witty, eerie set of linked tales blending natural history, romance, and the uncanny. Charming, strange, atmospheric. Read it for a delightful and unsettling hunt for cryptids and marvels, laced with Chambers's signature weirdness.

In its time

Published in 1904, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

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