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Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction short story collections. “Weird Tales: Lost World-Lost Race Stories, Vol. One” by David H. Keller and others is the 43rd installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. Weird Tales magazine was a treasure trove of lost world-lost race gems. These types of tales are nothing new. This science fiction-fantasy sub-genre has been around forever, but it really took off in popularity in the latter half of the 19th Century. The works of authors like H. Rider Haggard, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Rice Burroughs, A. Merritt, Ganpat, H. G. Wells, A. Hyatt Verrill, and Jules Verne are just a handful of the prominent authors who helped cement this genre in the public’s mind from the mid-19th Century through the mid-20th Century. Most tales within this genre were novels, but there was also a plethora of shorter stories as well, and Weird Tales magazine was home to many of them. Here in this collection is a choice sampling of some of Weird Tales’ finest LWLR tales. Stories like “The Lure Of Atlantis,” “White Man’s Madness,” and “Teoquitla The Golden” are all fine examples of LWLR storytelling at its best.