hollow earth

Corvus Editions

A new kind of Corvus Edition

September 26, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0″] [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] I’ve built up a large catalog of pamphlets and books over the years that I’ve been producing Corvus Editions—so large a catalog that there would be no question of keeping them all in print, even if there were more obvious outlets for the sort of publication that I do. Of course, a significant portion of the Corvus catalog has always been texts that seemed to meet some particular need in the moment and lose much of their interest when that particular moment has passed. But there is a portion of […]
Beyond the Labyrinth

A Voyage from Pole to Pole by way of the Center of the Earth (1721)

July 16, 2012
An Account of a Voyage from the Arctic to the Antarctic Pole by way of the Center of the Earth. With the description of that perilous Passage, & of the marvelous & astonishing things that were discovered beneath the Antarctic Pole. WITH FIGURES.   Amsterdam M. DCC. XXI   TABLE OF CHAPTERS. I. Departure of the Author from Amsterdam for Greenland; how the Author & his Companions began to realize that they were nearing the dreadful maelstrom which is under the Arctic Pole; description of the maelstrom. II. How the Vessel was swallowed up at the center of the maelstrom; […]
fiction

The Symmesonian Letters and Other Tales of the Hollow Earth

July 6, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur
This collection of short fiction and satire about “Symmes’ Hole” is intended as a supplement to the archive on the Hollow Earth theories of John Cleves Symmes and includes texts destined for publication in Principles and Explorations of the Mundane System. “Symmesonian,” Cincinnati Literary Gazette (Feb 28, 1824): 66 Cincinnati Literary Gazette, Mar 6, 1824. p. 76 Cincinnati Literary Gazette, Mar 20, 1824. p. 90 W. L. Alden, “Symmes’ Hole,” Stone 17 no. 5 (October, 1898): 343–346. Symmesonian. No. 1 Having been informed, Mr. Editor, that your countrymen always require of every person when first introduced to them, a regular […]