J. U. Giesy 4 hr 18 min read

At midnight the hospital calls: No. 27 is dead, exactly as he foretold, for between the narrator and the dead man lay a strange secret that let him predict his own passing.

J. U. Giesy's 1921 novel launches a mystical lost-world and space-opera adventure through the doorway of death and the astral. Vivid, esoteric period SF. Read it for a rousing planetary romance steeped in occult wonder, where death is only the gateway to another world.

In its time

Published in 1921, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

4 hr 18 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).