Tales of Prehistoric Survival (Cryptofiction Classics)

Last of the Mammoths (1907)

French artist Raoul Le Fort has fallen in love with a young woman, Eva, the epitome of beauty, and the daughter of self-made New York millionaire, the Hon. John N. Corliss. Corliss isn’t impressed with Le Fort’s bohemian lifestyle, nor his prioritizing art over commerce, but he’s willing to give Le Fort a chance to win his approval for his daughter’s hand. All Le Fort has to do is locate and return with the bones of an extinct giant mammoth for Corliss’s museum. Le Fort agrees, but quickly discovers it won’t be that simple. There’s a rival for the mammoth, and Eva’s hand: a German count who desires Corliss’s fortune as much as he does a wife. And then, also, there are those rumors among the Arctic people of a giant beast that jealously guards its territory . . .

Men of the Mist (1922)

Young Clem and Billy Ballard are stuck in a Dickensian nightmare of an English school. Their mother has passed and their father, wrongfully accused of theft, has disappeared. The holidays are approaching when they are surprised with tickets for a long, strange journey that takes them to the New World and across the North American continent. Thrust into an adventure with new friends and dangerous enemies, they eventually find themselves in a strange region filled with secrets hidden from the modern world. Encountering natural wonders, strange beasts, and an unexpected reunion, the boys’ lives are changed forever . . .

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