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Blurb: “Reuel Briggs is an impoverished yet accomplished medical student, whose ardent love for the mysterious Dianthe Lusk sets him on a path of self discovery and revelation. Seeking his fortune, he travels from Boston to Ethiopia, discovers a hidden city, ancient treasure and his own heritage. This rip-roaring lost-worlds thriller written in the early 1900s by a pioneering black writer of proto-science fiction is fuelled by love, betrayal and a heavy undertow of the supernatural.
A new edition with a series foreword and introduction that consider Pauline Hopkin's development of the social and racial themes also explored by W.E.B. Du Bois.
From mystery to crime, supernatural to horror and fantasy to science fiction, FLAME TREE 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic. Each book features a new biography and glossary of Literary, Gothic and Victorian terms.”