Raymond Z. Gallun 58 min read

'In the name of Methuselah, look, there!' Perry shouts above the singing bracewires, and old Doctor Murgatroyd's shrewd eyes finally make out the humping hills, faint as an old footprint.

Raymond Z. Gallun's 1940 story is an atmospheric lost-world and adventure tale of a discovery from the deep past. Vivid, evocative golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing yarn where an aging adventurer-scientist spots from the air what thousands of fliers missed, and unearths a terror that has slept since the dawn of time.

In its time

Published in 1940, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

58 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Julian S. Krupa