Ella M. Scrymsour ~6 hr read

Strangers come to Marshfielden, a curse falls, and a light in the dark leads down into a hidden underworld, the strange first leg of a journey that will reach at last to another planet entirely.

Ella M. Scrymsour's 1922 novel is an ambitious lost-world and space-opera romance. Vivid, imaginative, of its era. Read it for a sweeping two-part adventure, a subterranean realm of ancient exiles, then a voyage to a perfect world among the stars, from an inventive early woman writer of the fantastic.

In its time

Published in 1922, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

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