Stanton A. Coblentz 3 hr 40 min read

In a hidden valley beyond a mountain of vanished men, a wanderer falls under the spell of the strange Ibandru people, and of the beautiful Yasma, whose folk mysteriously fly south when the birds do.

Stanton A. Coblentz's 1945 novel is a haunting lost-world fantasy-romance. Lyrical, strange, evocative. Read it for a dreamlike tale of a lost valley and its enigmatic people, whose eerie seasonal disappearance holds a wondrous secret, in a beautifully written romance of love and mystery from a prolific master of imaginative fiction.

In its time

Published in 1945, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

3 hr 40 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).