Palaeontological fiction is about lost worlds inhabited by dinosaurs and the distant ancestors of modern humans. These are exciting journeys through the abysses of time and encounters with antediluvian monsters that miraculously survived to our times. These are stories about primitive people and the life of creatures that turned into fossils millions of years ago... The anthology “Cave of Monsters” continues in the “Polaris” series a series of publications of forgotten paleontological fiction. The book includes works by Russian and foreign authors, first published in the 1900-1920s. and extracted from now rare magazines. The publication retains the original illustrations that form an integral part of the first publications. Table of contents: Charles Roberts. At the dawn of timeA. Romanovsky. Elephant “grandfather” B. Centurion. Ha from the HowIrving Crump pack. Besieged by turtlesN. Pavlov. ChicksS. Krasnovsky. Catastrophe of space Maurice Renard. Cave of Monsters Vasily Afanasyev. Land of GiantsHenry De Vere Stackpool. From the depths of the depthsComments

Compilation and comments: M. Fomenko