The Dwellers in the Mirage

About this book

High in the Alaskan wilderness, Leif Langdon hears a strange sound carried across the night. It leads him towards a concealed civilisation where an ancient identity may be awakening inside him, and a monstrous deity called Khalk'ru demands obedience.

A. Merritt's lost-world adventure combines a hidden valley, rival loyalties and the fear that one person can carry incompatible lives within him. Its temples, subterranean passages and forgotten rites draw on his fascination with vanished cultures. The action is extravagant, but the central tension is intimate: which self will Leif choose to become?