Maurice Leblanc 4 hr 22 min read

Young Victorien discovers that his eccentric uncle has covered a garden wall with strange triangular images, mysterious 'Three Eyes' that seem to show impossible scenes from other worlds and times.

Maurice Leblanc's 1919 novel, by the creator of Arsène Lupin, is an inventive first-contact and hard-SF mystery. Intriguing, atmospheric, of its era. Read it for a strange, compelling tale of a scientific marvel that projects visions across space, blending the detective-thriller craft of a French master with startling speculative wonder.

In its time

Published in 1919, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

4 hr 22 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

George W. Gage