THE LOST CAVERN AND OTHER TALES OF THE FANTASTIC. New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., [1948]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects four novellas, including "The Cup," perhaps the best of Heard's fantasies. In "The Lost Cavern" a speleologist exploring a vast cavern in Mexico encounters a lost race, half bat, half man, but intellectually and physically superior to both. "The Thaw Plan" is a tale of the future set on a ruined Earth. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-83. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 785. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1544-46. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with two tiny closed tears at top edge of front panel. (#96494).
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