Phosphorus, a fantasy novel written almost 130 years ago by the late Australian writer John Fillmore Sherry, is known as “Australia's strangest book”. It is the decadent story of a young scientist and explorer who is buried alive and finds himself in the underworld of prehistoric animals, luminous demi-humans and their mysterious white queen. "Phosphorus", combining fantasy with ancient myths, continues in the "Polaris" series a series of publications of works belonging to the genre of "lost worlds" - an old and ever-new genre of fantasy and adventure literature.