E. H. Visiak 2 hr 56 min read

Fleeing to a remote South Sea island, castaways fall into the clutches of a wizard-pirate and his gang, amid buried treasure, a volcano, a skeleton lad, and a ghostly terror.

E. H. Visiak's 1910 novel is an atmospheric adventure-horror tale. Vivid, eerie, of its era. Read it for a strange and haunting boys'-adventure-turned-nightmare, a treasure-island romance shot through with genuine supernatural dread, from a writer admired by David Lindsay, blending piratical thrills with a creeping ghostly terror.

In its time

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

Reading it

2 hr 56 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

N. W. Physick