Lost Worlds: The Ultimate Anthology: 31 Classic Tales

Masterworks of Adventure #2

by Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard, A. Merritt

Long before Indiana Jones...

The ‘Lost World’ or ‘Lost Race’ genre was one of the most popular genres of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This Masterworks of Adventure anthology is a collection of 31 tales considered to be among the best and most influential works. We started with 333: A Bibliography of the Science-Fantasy Novel, by Crawford, Donahue and Grant (1953), which lists the best works published before 1950, then cross-referenced them with Science-fiction, the Early Years by Everett Franklin Bleiler, Stuart Teitler’s By the World Forgot: Towards a Bibliography of Lost Race Fiction from 1800, and Jessica Amanda Salmonson’s Lost Race Check Guide, the ultimate checklist for collectors. You’ll find stories told in a variety of styles: travelogues, boy’s adventure, romantic adventure, philosophical adventure and pulp fiction. Some have been made available for Kindle for the very first time and are exclusive to ROH Press.

Sir Henry Rider Haggard’s Genre-Defining Tales
King Solomon’s Mines
Allan Quatermain
She: A History of Adventure (The 1896 Edition with over 400 corrections made by Haggard, this edition is not freely available online)

Lost Worlds in Africa
A Rip Van Winkle of the Kalahari by Frederick Carruthers Cornell
The Great White Queen: A Tale of Treasure and Treason by William Le Queux
By the Gods Beloved by Baroness Orczy

Lost Worlds in North America
The Aztec Treasure House by Thomas A. Janvier

Lost Worlds in Central America
The Phantom City: A Volcanic Romance by William Westall (First Kindle Edition)
The Lost Canyon of the Toltecs by Charles Sumner Seeley (First Kindle Edition)

Lost Worlds in South America
The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Lost Worlds in India and Asia
The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
A Daughter of Astrea by E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Crystal Sceptre by Philip Verrill Mighels
The Mountain Kingdom: A Narrative of Adventure by David Lawson Johnstone (First Kindle Edition)
Om: The Secret of Ahbor Valley by Talbot Mundy
Fields of Sleep by E Charles Vivian (First Kindle Edition)
The Metal Monster by A. Merritt

Lost Worlds in Europe and the Middle East
No-Man's-Land by John Buchan
The Knight of the Silver Star by Percy James Brebner (First Kindle Edition)

Lost Worlds in Australia
The Lost Explorer by James Francis Hogan (First Kindle Edition)
Marooned on Australia by Ernest Favenc (First Kindle Edition)
Eureka by Owen Hall (First Kindle Edition)

Lost Worlds at the Poles
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by James DeMille
The Ke Whonkus People: A Story of the North Pole Country, by John O. Greene (First Kindle Edition)
Polaris of the Snows by Charles B. Stilson
The Smoky God by Willis George Emerson

Hollow Earth
The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Under the Auroras: A Marvelous Tale of the Interior World by William Jenkins Shaw
The Moon Pool by A. Merritt
Dwellers in the Mirage by A. Merritt

Essay
The Queen of California by Edward Everett Hale

8716 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 5, 2018

About the author

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.

Doyle was a prolific writer. In addition to the Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the brigantine Mary Celeste, found drifting at sea with no crew member aboard.