Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Abbreviations ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Editor’s Preface xiii
6. Editor’s Introduction xvii
7. Illustration: First page of a Strange Manuscript in Harper’s Weekly (1888) lxi
8. A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
9. The Finding of the Copper Cylinder 1
10. Adrift in the Antarctic Ocean 10
11. A World of Fire and Desolation 19
12. The Sight of Human Beings 29
13. The Torrent Sweeping Under the Mountains 40
14. The New World 48
15. Scientific Theories and Scepticism 60
16. The Cave-Dwellers 72
17. The Cavern of the Dead 80
18. The Sacred Hunt 88
19. The Swamp Monster 95
20. The Baleful Sacrifice 103
21. The Awful “Mista Kosek” 109
22. I Learn My Doom 118
23. The Kohen is Inexorable 126
24. The Kosekin 135
25. Belief and Unbelief 143
26. A Voyage over the Pole 156
27. The Wonders of the “Amir” 165
28. The Dark Maiden Layelah 174
29. The Flying Monster 183
30. Escape 192
31. The Island of Fire 200
32. Recapture 208
33. Falling, Like Icarus, Into the Sea 220
34. Grimm’s Law Again 226
35. Oxenden Preaches a Sermon 234
36. In Prison 240
37. The Ceremony of Separation 248
38. The Day of Sacrifice 256
39. Conclusion 264
40. Explanatory Notes 271
41. Description of First Appearance, Harper’s Weekly 305
42. Other Published Versions of the Text 313
43. Emendations in Copy-text 319
44. Line-end Hyphenated Compounds in Copy-text 323
45. Line-end Hyphenated Compounds in CEECT Edition 325