A young man crosses the Great Victoria Desert of Australia in search of a friend who has vanished, and finds a hidden valley where a strange civilisation survives and a sinister intelligence rules. Red scrub, uncanny creatures that stalk the travellers and a beautiful woman of the valley mark a story in the lost-race tradition of A. Merritt.
An early work by one of science fiction’s longest-serving writers, published in the magazine pulps of 1929. Download the free EPUB.