J. Shield Nicholson 2 hr 8 min read

In a wondrous hidden city ruled by a strange race, the enigmatic figure of Thoth moves through a weird and mysterious romance where you never have the faintest idea what will happen next.

J. Shield Nicholson's 1888 novel is an imaginative lost-race fantasy-romance. Weird, original, finely written. Read it for a genuinely novel Victorian romance, much praised in its day for its unpredictability and imagination, a strange, atmospheric tale of a hidden civilization and its unsettling ruling race, in the great tradition of the lost-world wonder-story.

In its time

Published in 1888, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

2 hr 8 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).