Robert W. Chambers 3 hr 41 min read

Wildly comic tales of a bumbling naturalist forever hunting impossible beasts, living mammoths, mermaids, and stranger things, narrated with straight-faced absurdity.

Robert W. Chambers's 1915 collection (by the author of 'The King in Yellow') gathers his tongue-in-cheek cryptid-hunting stories. Funny, strange, atmospheric. Read it for a delightful set of comic weird tales, where an earnest scientist chases marvels that keep getting away.

In its time

Published in 1915, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

3 hr 41 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Henry Hutt