The Satanic Illusion | Literary Precedents
Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Lost World (1912; see separate entry) set the standard for adventures like "The Satanic Illusion." In The Lost World, Professor George Edward Challenger, narrator Edward Dunn Malone, and a gathering of misfits seek out a great plateau in South America where ancient life, particularly dinosaurs, may persist long after its extinction elsewhere. On the plateau, evolution is seen playing itself out, and every observation is based on the belief that evolutionary theory is true. Conan Doyle had in mind more than high adventure when he wrote The Lost...
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