In H. Rider Haggard’s 1894 lost world tale The People of the Mist the interestingly flawed hero and the heroine find the People of the Mist, are worshipped as gods and face perils from sacred crocodiles and treacherous priests. Terrific stuff.

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William Gray Beyer’s Minions of the Moon, serialised in Argosy in 1939. A guy wakes up 6000 years in the future. Civilisation has collapsed. The ghost also worries him. Plus Vikings, Mongols and a dragon. Action, romance and a few clever ideas.

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Victor Rousseau's Eric of the Strong Heart was written in 1918. A Saxon princess from the Dark Ages displayed as a sideshow attraction turn out to be a real Saxon princess. Her ancient kingdom still exists, in the frozen Arctic. A fine lost world tale.

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Dr Death: The Gray Creatures, a 1935 crime/supernatural horror pulp novel mixing the supernatural, the paranormal and the scientific. Dr Death is a brilliant but mad scientist who believes science is an evil that must be eradicated. Fun stuff.

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Leigh Brackett's The Ginger Star is a 1974 sword-and-planet adventure. Brackett was at her best describing decaying doomed civilisations and the planet Skaith qualifies as that. It's also a first contact story. Well-written, fast-moving, action-packed, atmospheric. Excellent.

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Berkeley Livingston’s novel Queen of the Panther World dates from 1948. A man, a woman have a telepathic link with a panther. They end up on a strange planet with giant lizard-like creatures with human riders. Some fine ideas poorly developed.

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Perley Poore Sheehan’s novel Woman of the Pyramid dates from 1914. A time travel love story with past lives, ghosts, Egyptology. A modern occult investigator gets involved with a queen of ancient Egypt. Very entertaining pulp adventure/romance.

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Mistress of Dark Fantasy is a collection of Dorothy Quick's 1930s-50s stories from Weird Tales. Horror tales combined with gothic romance and a definite fairy tale vibe, with more emphasis on the romance than on the horror. Odd but interesting.

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C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne’s The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis, published 1899, is an unconventional lost world tale with sci-fi tinges. It's a different take on the Atlantis legend. Plenty of action, some romance, very entertaining.

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In S.P. Meek's 1931 novel The Drums of Tapajos American adventurers find a lost city (with an Atlantis link) in the Amazon rainforest. It's a flawed utopia with a dark side and the tale is interestingly ambiguous. Worth a read for lost world fans.

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