In Search of the Unknown: Sent After Creatures That Cannot Exist
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by George Inness, Winslow Homer and William Merritt Chase. A naturalist for the Bronx zoo is sent after creatures that should not exist — the great auk, a transparent people in a Florida swamp, a mammoth in the north — and falls in love in every chapter. Chambers wrote it in 1904 as a comedy with the machinery of a scientific romance, and the joke is that the monsters are always less trouble than the women. The last story is the one that stops being funny. Fifty-eight plates of sea and harbor painting by Fitz Henry Lane and Winslow Homer run alongside the hunts, catching the salt light of the coasts these creatures are chased across.
Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by George Inness, Winslow Homer and William Merritt Chase. A naturalist for the Bronx zoo is sent after creatures that should not exist — the great auk, a transparent people in a Florida swamp, a mammoth in the north — and falls in love in every c...
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Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) was an American writer born in Brooklyn who trained as an artist in Paris before turning to fiction. He is remembered now for one early book of weird tales, The King in Yellow, and was known in his lifetime for society romances and wartime thrillers. His works include The King in Yellow, The Dark Star, The Fighting Chance, and The Slayer of Souls.
Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) was an American writer born in Brooklyn who trained as an artist in Paris before turning to fiction. He is remembered now for one early book of weird tales, The King in Yellow, and was known in his lifetime for society romances and wartime thrillers. His works inclu...
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