F. Britten Austin ~6 hr read

Tales that hover on the borderland of the strange, buried treasure, secret service, the odd case of Mr. Todmorden, mingling adventure, mystery, and the uncanny.

F. Britten Austin's 1923 collection gathers his popular magazine tales of the fantastic and the borderline-supernatural. Vivid, various, entertaining period fiction. Read it for a lively assortment of stories that stray from the everyday into mystery, adventure, and the eerie.

In its time

Published in 1923, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).