Taduki-inspired visions draw an intrepid adventurer and a madman to a lost African outpost of Atlantis where they must confront an ancient mystery from the stars...
Drawing on diverse sources such as Jules Verne's THE BARSAC MISSION, H. Rider Haggard's SHE AND ALLAN, Guy d’Armen’s DOC ARDAN (who has been called the "French Doc Savage"), J.-H. Rosny aîné’s L’ÉTONNANT VOYAGE D'HARETON IRONCASTLE, Pierre Benoit’s L’ATLANTIDE, and Philip José Farmer's "monomyth," IRON AND BRONZE hearkens back the classic SF adventure pulps of the 1920s and '30s.
This story first appeared in the anthology TALES OF THE SHADOWMEN 5: THE VAMPIRES OF PARIS.
