In Search of the Unknown / Police!!!

By: Robert W Chambers, Mike Ashley (Introduction by)

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Paperback | 24 November 2017

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294 Pages

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Exploring the Everglades ... In Search of the Unknown...

..".under all the fresh splendor of color death lurks in brilliant tints. Where painted fruit hangs temptingly, where great, silky blossoms exhale alluring scent, where the elaps coils inlaid with scarlet, black, and saffron, where in the shadow of a palmetto frond a succession of velvety black diamonds mark the rattler's swollen length, there death is; and his invisible consort, horror, creeps where the snake whose mouth is lined with white creeps--where the tarantula squats, hairy, motionless; where a bit of living enamel fringed with orange undulates along a mossy log.

"'This is the place, ' said Professor Farrago. 'I have a curious presentiment, ' he said, 'that I shall not come out of this experiment unscathed.'"

Journey with members of the Bronx Park Zoological Gardens as they search out exotic and seemingly extinct creatures like the dingue, the auk and the ux, wooly mammoths and even a prehistoric thermosaurus. Travel with them around the world as they dodge selkies and ekaf-birds in a series of adventures to tracks the weirdest creatures they can find.

And then join them again in Police!!! when they encounter amphibious humanoids, giant minnows, fire weasels and more!

Industry Reviews

"Written with style and good humour, the stories from In Search of the Unknown are Chambers at his best, eminently readable."--Hugh Lamb, Introduction to Out of the Dark 2

"An important influence on science fiction as well as fantasy."--Sam Moskowitz, "The Light Fantastics of Robert W. Chambers"

"Nestled in-between his once-popular parlor romances, 'Police!' continues the fantastical stories of Dr. Percy, ever searching the world for zoological discoveries and love, and doomed never to find either. Chambers apes Twain more than Bierce in these comical tales."--J. G. Neely

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