When the World Screamed

Professor Challenger claims there is a plateau in South America where dinosaurs survive, and assembles an expedition to prove it. Every lost world story since owes this one.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The earth drifts into a belt of poisonous ether and Challenger gathers his friends in a sealed room with oxygen cylinders.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Challenger, the great sceptic, is pulled into spiritualist circles by his daughter. Doyle using his own character to argue his own late convictions.

Arthur Conan Doyle