Lee Tarbell 2 hr 2 min read

A scarred, cross-eyed giant appears in mining man Keele's Korean doorway with a tale he'd tell no one else, of something extraordinary he's stumbled upon, in the Valley of the Croen.

Lee Tarbell's (Richard Shaver's) 1949 story is an atmospheric lost-world adventure in the Shaver Mystery vein. Vivid, strange golden-age pulp. Read it for a colorful yarn of hidden ancient races and buried marvels, steeped in the notorious 'Shaver Mystery' lore of underground civilizations, in the breathless, conspiracy-tinged style that made these tales a pulp-era sensation.

In its time

Published in 1949, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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