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'A despondent young man, buried alive after imbibing snake venom to test an antidote he'd invented, breaks out into a subterranean kingdom, inhabited by prehistoric creatures and anthropoids who are both Latin-speaking and phosphorescent! The queen of the anthropoids, who has a good figure but the head of an ape, takes a fancy to the hero and plans to use him as breeding stock to boost the gene pool of her tribe. Rather than submit, the hero kills the queen (with a poisonous snake) and is then speedily returned to Australia after a fortuitous volcanic eruption.'
Source: University of Melbourne Library. Special Collections.
Notes
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E. Morris Miller's Australian Literature from its Beginnings to 1935 (1940): 638 comments: 'Refers to phosphorous effects in Ischian caves, near Naples, about 1880'.
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Dedication: Dedicated by the author to his Mother.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Digging beneath Phosphor : An Ischian Mystery
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Australian Weird Fiction , no. 3 2009; (p. 33-45) -
Lost and Found Cities and Peoples : Around the World
2001
single work
review
bibliography
biography
— Appears in: Notes on Australian Science Fiction 2001; (p. 91-95)
— Review of Account of a Race of Human Beings with Tails : Discovered by Mr Jones, the Traveller, in the Interior of New Guinea 1873 single work novella ; Phosphor : An Ischian Mystery 1888 single work novel ; Adventures in New Guinea : The Narrative of Louis Trégance, a French Sailor, Nine Years in Captivity among the Orangwoks, a Tribe in the Interior of New Guinea 1876 single work children's fiction ; Gobi or Shamo : A Story of Three Songs 1889 single work novel ; Isban Israel : A South African Story 1896 single work novel ; The Nameless City : A Rommany Romance 1894 single work novel
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Lost and Found Cities and Peoples : Around the World
2001
single work
review
bibliography
biography
— Appears in: Notes on Australian Science Fiction 2001; (p. 91-95)
— Review of Account of a Race of Human Beings with Tails : Discovered by Mr Jones, the Traveller, in the Interior of New Guinea 1873 single work novella ; Phosphor : An Ischian Mystery 1888 single work novel ; Adventures in New Guinea : The Narrative of Louis Trégance, a French Sailor, Nine Years in Captivity among the Orangwoks, a Tribe in the Interior of New Guinea 1876 single work children's fiction ; Gobi or Shamo : A Story of Three Songs 1889 single work novel ; Isban Israel : A South African Story 1896 single work novel ; The Nameless City : A Rommany Romance 1894 single work novel -
Digging beneath Phosphor : An Ischian Mystery
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Studies in Australian Weird Fiction , no. 3 2009; (p. 33-45)
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