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The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis

10 best books like The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis (Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne): The Blue Star, Hrolf Kraki's Saga, Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley, Hyperborea, Island of the Mighty, Figures of Earth, The Water of the Wondrous Isles, Kai Lung's Golden Hours, Land of Unreason, Red Moon and Black Mountain

The Blue Star
AuthorFletcher Pratt
ISBN0345298527
Lalette Asterhax could not escape her destiny. She was a hereditary witch in a world where witchcraft was banned by ecclesiastical and temporal powers. And any man who possessed her would then gain possession of her precious Blue Star…and all the powers it could bestow. Rodvard Bergelin was a reluctant...
Hrolf Kraki's Saga
AuthorPoul Anderson
ISBN0671654268
Poul Anderson has long been known for his love affair with the legends and myths of the great Norse heroes. Coordinating, translating, re-telling the scattered heroic literature could only be the work of a scholar and a lover of the genre. That Mr. Anderson also happens to be a talented writer is our great...
Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley
AuthorLord Dunsany
After long and patient research I am still unable to give to the reader of these Chronicles the exact date of the times that they tell of. Were it merely a matter of history there could be no doubts about the period; but where magic is concerned, to however slight an extent, there must always be some element...
Hyperborea
AuthorClark Ashton Smith
ISBN0345022068
Science Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy.

Contents:

"Introduction" (Lin Carter)
Hyperborea
"The Muse of Hyperborea" (prose poem)
"The Seven Geases"
"The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan"
"The White Sybil"
"The Testament of Athammaus"
"The Coming of the...
Island of the Mighty
AuthorEvangeline Walton
ISBN0020264720
Tricked into giving birth to him, the sorceress Arianhod swore that the child should be nameless until she named him...that he should not bear arms until she herself bestowed them...and that he should never love a woman of the human race.

But her brother and lover Gwydion tricked her into bestowing...
Figures of Earth
AuthorJames Branch Cabell
ISBN1414298250
Mundus vult decipi - the world wants to be deceived - and the happier man is one whose desires remain unfulfilled inform all of Cabell's writing. As the chroniclers write of Poictesme's redemption:

"For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle,...
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
AuthorWilliam Morris
ISBN1419187414
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...
Kai Lung's Golden Hours
AuthorErnest Bramah
ISBN1587152096
Kai Lung's Golden Hours By Ernest Bramah. Preface: Hilaire Belloc. Man is born to make. His business is to construct; to plan; to carry out the plan: to fit together, and to produce a finished thing. That human art in which it is most difficult to achieve this end and in which it is far easier to neglect it...
Land of Unreason
AuthorL. Sprague de Camp
ISBN0440147360
On Midsummer's Eve, as everybody knows, you should leave a bowl of milk out for the fairies. Unfortunately - or fortunately - Fred Barber, an American diplomat convalescing in Yorkshire, didn't take the obligation with proper seriousness. He swapped the milk for a stiff dose of Scotch. So he had only...
Red Moon and Black Mountain
AuthorJoy Chant
ISBN0345021789
When I was a young girl Joy Chant was part of the triarchy from whom I bought and read everything I could get my hands on (the other two being Joan D. Vinge and Elizabeth A. Lynn). So I thought it was about time after all those years to get re-acquainted with my childhood dreams.

As things turned out...
The Ship of Ishtar
AuthorA. Merritt
ISBN0020228716
The Ship of Ishtar, a universally hailed classic of the fantasy novel by A. Merritt. Abraham Grace Merritt (January 20, 1884-August 21, 1943) - known by his byline, A. Merritt - was an American editor and author of works of fantastic fiction. Merritt's writings were heavily influenced by H. Rider Haggard...
Elak of Atlantis
AuthorHenry Kuttner
ISBN1601250460
Explore the origins of Sword & Sorcery with Henry Kuttner's Elak of Atlantis! Published in Weird Tales to satisfy fans of Conan the Barbarian in the wake of Robert E. Howard's death, the four long stories depict a brutal world of flashing swords and primal magic, touched by a hint of Lovecraft's Cthulhu...
The Complete Moon Trilogy: The Moon Maid/The Moon Men/The Red Hawk
AuthorEdgar Rice Burroughs
ISBN1846772427
Perhaps the most imaginative of the 'Planet' series - the entire 'Moon' adventures For 60 years all the nations of the Earth have been at war. Now peace has come, but, more momentously, contact has been made with Mars. Into these times steps Julian-a man aware of lives past and present-with a strange story...
A Prisoner in Fairyland by Algernon Blackwood, Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Detective
AuthorAlgernon Blackwood
ISBN1592245145
[FULL TEXT]

In the train, even before St. John's was passed, a touch of inevitable reaction had set in, and Rogers asked himself why he was going. For a sentimental journey was hardly in his line, it seemed. But no satisfactory answer was forthcoming -- none, at least, that a Board or a Shareholders'...
The People of the Mist
AuthorH. Rider Haggard
When two brothers lose their home.Because of the father's unethical behavior.Then he commits suicide.Leonard Outram and his older sibling, Tom.Are left penniless.Both flee to Africa.Vowing to each other.Never to return. Until they regain Outram Hall,in England.But how to restore their family's...
The Queen of Atlantis
AuthorPierre Benoît
ISBN0803269161
In 1903 Lieutenant Olivier Ferrières of the French army welcomes Captain de Saint-Avit as the new commandant of his post in Algeria. Shunned by his fellow officers, the captain has been accused of the brutal murder of his friend Lieutenant Morhange, when the two were lost alone in the desert. To Ferrières’s...
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