The Lure of Atlantis: Strange Tales from the Sunken Continent
Atlantis has dwelt in the imagination of writers for centuries as a bejewelled mystery bubbling with stories of impossible technology, abyssal horrors and quixotic quests of rediscovery. This anthology collects ten stories of Atlantis, in four sections, opening with Jules Verne’s iconic depiction of the ruined city and including classics from Weird Tales magazine by pulp masters such as Clark Ashton Smith, H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. Prepare to dive into:
Atlantis Rediscovered: Deep-sea encounters with the vestiges of a drowned civilization.
Atlantis Revisited: Journeys through time via the memories of Atlantean ancestors.
Atlantis Resurrected: What if Atlantis had never been lost, but remained hidden by design?
Atlantis Reimagined: Experimental tales of Weird Fantasy, tentacled cultists, and Atlanteans in space.
Michael Wheatley
Michael Wheatley is a practice-based researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London, whose work explores weird fiction in the age of climate crisis.
British Library Tales of the Weird
The British Library Tales of the Weird series revives and unearths classic strange fiction from the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the form of novels, single-author collections and thematic anthologies, complete with new introductions and fascinating notes by expert editors.
British Library Tales of the Weird consists of seventy-one books and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
