A. Hyatt Verrill 48 min read

Transfixed with horror, the narrator watches a living vine drag a dying man into the tree above, then a second vine writhes toward his own leg, and he leaps with a wild yell of terror.

A. Hyatt Verrill's 1926 story is a rousing lost-world adventure-horror. Vivid, imaginative golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful scientifiction yarn of explorers who descend into an extinct volcanic crater in Central America and find a strange lost race and deadly wonders, in the wonder-and-peril style of a popular early master of the lost-world tale.

In its time

Published in 1926, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Frank R. Paul