Beneath a remote Italian church lies the entrance to a forgotten world of weird creatures, savage peoples, and high adventure. This is Lasturia, the world within our world.
Isaiah Visscher, antique book collector and reluctant adventurer, leaves turn of the century Chicago for the southern mountains of Italy to investigate the work of a long-forgotten artist. However, his studies are interrupted by mysteries much older than any faded frescoes, mysteries that lead him to the Hollow Earth where peril, conspiracy, romance, and more than a few dinosaurs await.
Benjamin Chandler is a writer and illustrator who never lost his childhood love for all things prehistoric. His paleofiction blog, Antediluvian Echoes, has been been cited in "The Atlantic Monthly." "Lasturia" is his first novel. He enjoys cooking, bird-watching, and listening to podcasts. He does not enjoy doing the dishes.