{"id":8030,"date":"2018-12-03T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=8030"},"modified":"2025-09-19T14:34:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T18:34:55","slug":"more-lost-world-lost-race-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2018\/12\/03\/more-lost-world-lost-race-novels\/","title":{"rendered":"More Armchair Fiction lost-world\/lost-race novels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2018\/12\/drums-of-the-tapajos.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[8030]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8103\" src=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2018\/12\/drums-of-the-tapajos-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;The Drums of Tapajos&quot;\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2018\/12\/drums-of-the-tapajos-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2018\/12\/drums-of-the-tapajos.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a>I <a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2017\/05\/15\/armchair-fictions-lost-world-lost-race-series\/\">previously posted<\/a> on Sinister Cinema&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armchairfiction.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Armchair Fiction<\/a> series of reprints in their Lost World\/Lost Race. They had put out 14 in the series, and have just added 10 more.<\/p>\n<p>The works are a mix of stories I know, along with several I have never heard of, which I find most interesting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-bottom: 5px !important\">This next set of works are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>#15 <em>The Drums of Tapajos<\/em>, <strong>S.P. Meek<\/strong> #B-48<\/li>\n<li>#16 <em>The Temple of Fire<\/em>, <strong>Fred Ashley<\/strong> (<strong>Frank Atkins<\/strong>), #B-49<\/li>\n<li>#17 <em>The Face in the Abyss<\/em>, <strong>A. Merritt<\/strong>, #B-50<\/li>\n<li>#18 <em>Inland Deep<\/em>, <strong>Richard Tooker<\/strong>, #B-51<\/li>\n<li>#19 <em>The Silver God of the Orang Hutan<\/em>, <strong>David Douglas<\/strong>, #B-52<\/li>\n<li>#20 <em>The King of the Dead<\/em>, <strong>Frank Aubrey<\/strong> (Francis Atkins), #B-53<\/li>\n<li>#21 <em>The Boats of the &#8216;Glen Carrig&#8217;<\/em>, <strong>William Hope Hodgson<\/strong>, #B-54<\/li>\n<li>#22 <em>The Secret of the Earth<\/em>, <strong>Charles Willing Beale<\/strong>, #B-55<\/li>\n<li>#23 <em>The World of the Giant Ants<\/em>, <strong>A. Hyatt Verrill<\/strong>, #B-56<\/li>\n<li>#24 <em>Phalanxes of Atlans<\/em>, <strong>F. Van Wyck Mason<\/strong>, #B-57<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more-->S.P. Meek (1894-1972) was a military chemist and author who briefly focused on science fiction and later children&#8217;s stories. His sf appeared in <em class=\"pulp-magazine\">Astounding<\/em> and <em class=\"pulp-magazine\">Amazing Stories<\/em>, and he had a long-running series, featuring <strong>Dr. Bird<\/strong> and <strong>Operative Carnes<\/strong>. But few of his works have been reprinted, tho there is a collection of most of the Dr. Bird stories.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Drums of Tapajos<\/em> tells of a lost super-science city found by a quartet of explorers. What secrets will they discover? This sounds like an interesting work from an author I&#8217;ve never heard of. It first appeared in three issues of <em class=\"pulp-magazine\">Amazing Stories<\/em> in 1930-31. There is a sequel, <em>Troyana<\/em>, so I wonder if Armchair Fiction will reprint that as well?\u00a0 Hope so.<\/p>\n<p>Fred Ashley, really Frank (or Francis) Atkins (1847-1927), wrote several lost-race stories, one published in <em class=\"pulp-magazine\">Argosy<\/em> and another in a British pulp magazine. <em>The Temple of Fire<\/em> (1905) takes its heroes to a bizarre lost world in the South Pacific, with an array of dangers, like web-footed people, man-eating plants, and more.\u00a0 More a boy&#8217;s adventure book then pulp fiction, should be interesting.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve posted already on A. Merritt, and <em>Face in the Abyss<\/em> is one of his lesser-known lost world stories (<em>The Moon Pool<\/em> is what most people know). Here our hero confronts a bizarre land in the Andes. Now, this edition is subtitled &#8220;and Other Fantastic Tales,&#8221; and so contains two other works by Merritt: &#8220;The People of the Pit&#8221; and &#8220;The Woman of the Wood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2018\/12\/silver-god-of-the-orang-hutan.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[8030]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8104\" src=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2018\/12\/silver-god-of-the-orang-hutan-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;The Silver God of the Orang Hutan&quot;\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2018\/12\/silver-god-of-the-orang-hutan-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2018\/12\/silver-god-of-the-orang-hutan.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a>Richard Tooker was a minor pulp author. The only other works of his that I am aware of is the short sf series, <strong>Zenith Rand, Planet Vigilante<\/strong> (available from <a href=\"http:\/\/blackdogbooks.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Dog Books<\/a>), which I hope to get. <em>Inland Deep<\/em> (1936) tells of a group of explorers looking into strange tales about Comanche Caves and finding a lost world of dinosaurs and a semi-intelligence species!<\/p>\n<p><em>The Silver God of the Orang Hutan<\/em> (1922) appears to be the only work by David Douglas, and was only published in England. It tells of an American millionaire who teams up with an explorer in a quest in Malaysia that has them discovering a lost world and its strange people who worship a &#8220;Silver God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Frank Aubrey is another alias for Frank Atkins, and <em>The King of the Dead<\/em> is another of his lost world stories, actually the third of a trio of related works starting with <em>The Devil-Tree of El Dorado<\/em> and then a prequel, <em>A Queen of Atlantis<\/em> (which was reprinted in <em class=\"pulp-magazine\">Argosy<\/em>). The character of <strong>Monella<\/strong> appears in these first two works. <em>The King of the Dead<\/em> (1903) appears to be more a retelling, with the characters renamed as they search the jungles of Brazil for the super-science city of Myrvonia. I wonder if they&#8217;ll reprint the first two works?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2018\/12\/boats-of-the-glen-carrig.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[8030]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8105\" src=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2018\/12\/boats-of-the-glen-carrig-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' &quot;\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2018\/12\/boats-of-the-glen-carrig-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2018\/12\/boats-of-the-glen-carrig.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a>I <a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2017\/01\/16\/sargasso-and-william-hope-hodgson\/\">also posted<\/a> on William Hope Hodgson, and his work <em>The Boats of the &#8216;Glen Carrig&#8217;<\/em>. As I noted, it tells of the survivors from a sunken ship and their adventures in a bizarre and dangerous land in the Sargasso Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Willing Beale wrote a handful of tales, one which was published in <em class=\"pulp-magazine\">The Cavalier\u00a0<\/em>in 1909. <em>The Secret of the Earth<\/em> (1899) tells of a pair of brothers who build an airship, and with it take a trip to the arctic where they enter the hollow earth and met various groups of people.<\/p>\n<p>A. Hyatt Verrill (1871-1954) was a zoologist, explorer, and author of both natural history and science fiction. He wrote several lost world stories, including a couple dealing with the &#8220;green prism,&#8221; both reprinted by Armchair Fiction. <em>The World of the Giant Ants<\/em> is actually related to these two stories, and first appeared in <em class=\"pulp-magazine\">Amazing Stories<\/em>. It tells of a lost land of giant insects.<\/p>\n<p>F. Van Wyck Mason was a prolific historian and author, who wrote mystery, action, historical fiction, young adult, but very little science fiction. <em>Phalanxes of Atlans<\/em> originally appeared in <em class=\"pulp-magazine\">Astounding Stories<\/em> in 1931. It tells of a lost world of Atlantians in the Arctic.<\/p>\n<p>As noted, I was only familiar with two of these stories, and am very interested in getting and reading the others, and even some of these authors other works as well. As I obtain these works, I plan on posting more detailed reviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I previously posted on Sinister Cinema&#8217;s Armchair Fiction series of reprints in their Lost World\/Lost Race. They had put out 14 in the series, and have just added 10 more. The works are a mix of stories I know, along with several I have never heard of, which I find most interesting. This next set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Pulp Super-Fan looks at more lost world-lost race novels. #pulpmags","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[1,135],"tags":[2357,577,171,152,168,875,640,564,272,94,142,606],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-8030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pulps","category-reprints","tag-a-hyatt-verrill","tag-a-merritt","tag-adventure-pulps","tag-armchair-fiction","tag-black-dog-books","tag-f-van-wyck-mason","tag-frank-aubrey","tag-lost-world-lost-race","tag-s-p-meek","tag-science-fiction","tag-weird-fiction","tag-william-hope-hodgson"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/files\/2018\/12\/boats-of-the-glen-carrig.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3eLo8-25w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8030"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21335,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030\/revisions\/21335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8030"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=8030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}