When H.P. Lovecraft visited the vast caverns of Virginia, he remembered that “strange old novel Etidorhpa”, where, in a magical way, the theory of the Hollow Earth is developed.
Today no one remembers that the first person to mention the possibility of the Earth being hollow was the great astronomer Edmond Halley in 1692. But the fame of Etidorhpa and its mysterious author John Uri Lloyd (1849-1936), a great scientist and an avid student of ancient alchemical traditions, remains.
So what is Etidorhpa? A scientific hypothesis about Hollow Earth? A phantasmagorical alchemical and occult allegory? A novel describing the inner maturation of a genius? Critics are hesitant to decide. Let the reader decide.
