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Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. “The Strange Story of William Hyde” by Patrick and Terence Casey is the 35th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. Where orchids grow the color of bright blood and the stones sing with the screams of unborn souls—where no white man had ever stepped before—lay the spectacular metropolis of Jallan Batoe. Among the islanders of Borneo only those brave enough would whisper the name of that fabled and dreaded lost city, and even then, the thought of the haunting cry of the “Singing Stones” would have them praying to the gods for their carelessness. Jallan Batoe was the treasure house of Borneo, and home to the Poonan, who closely guarded their sanctuary in the hollowed heart of a dormant volcano against whomever may be brave enough to enter it. For behind those volcanic walls lived the “Golden Women” and riches beyond imagine; but also the terrible “Green, Green God!” Guarded from the world by fear, none had dared breach the Poonan’s stronghold, but wealth and power was all the encouragement one man needed to pursue the riches of Jallan Batoe and face the wrath of the Green, Green God!