A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by James De Mille
As I believe I’ve mentioned elsewhere, British author H. Rider Haggard‘s back-to-back-to-back releases of King Solomon’s Mines, She, and Allan Quatermain from 1885 – 1887 served as a sort of triple shock wave on the worldwide literary community. From that point and for the next half a century, scores of imitators would come out with hundreds of works that attempted to emulate the so-called “Father of the Lost-Word Novel,” and with varying degrees of success.
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No, I've never heard of him. Thanks for the hedzup, K.!
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COMMENT "Weird good fun"... that's my favorite kind! 😁