![[The Lost Continent.jpg]] The Lost World Compendium consists of exceptional media—books, films, and music—that best exemplify the Lost World genre. These works have influenced more hours at my table than can be counted, and are also in many ways foundational to all wilderness adventures. The Lost World is the ground to which my creative energies invariably run. Each entry into the compendium consists of three things. **A direct link.** All books in the compendium are public domain and so are freely available to read and download; all movies are freely available for viewing on archive.org; all music is freely available for streaming on a number of different platforms. **A brief description.** Hold. **A *Lost World* rating.** This indicates how many Lost World tropes can be found within the work. ## Rating System All entries are recommended due to their exemplary nature and for this reason, a traditional rating system is not suited to the purpose of the compendium. Instead, works are rated by their inclusion of the five key tropes of the lost world genre: 1. A remote or inaccessible location 🏝️– deep in the heart of impassable deserts, hidden away in inaccessible valleys, or buried far beneath the surface of the earth, the Lost World is preserved by its remoteness and general inaccessibility. 2. A lost race 👀 – Lost Worlds are often populated by forgotten races that differ, to varying degrees, from their well-known counterparts. 3. Beautiful women and/or bestial men👱🏻‍♀️/🐵 – 4. Dinosaurs or other prehistoric beasts 🦖/🦣 – 5. Cataclysm or cataclysmic forces 🌋 – ## Books - [ ] [The Land That Time Forgot](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/551) by Edgar Rice Burroughs – - [ ] [Pellucidar](https://freeread.de/@RGLibrary/ERBurroughs/Pellucidar/EarthsCore.html) by Edgar Rice Burroughs – - [ ] [Tarzan](https://freeread.de/@RGLibrary/ERBurroughs/Tarzan/Tarzan.html) by Edgar Rice Burroughs – - [ ] King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard – - [ ] The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle – - [ ] Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne – - [ ] The Moon Pool by A. Merritt – - [ ] The Moon of Skulls by Robert E. Howard – - [ ] The Nameless City by H.P. Lovecraft – - [ ] By the Gods of Beloved – ## Movies --- >*You have heard it said that nothing written after 1980 is worth reading; but I say to you that nothing not already in the public domain is worth reading.*