Rodney Marlow found a metal city buried beneath his farm, and in it the secret of an amazing menace. Pulp science fiction by a British master.
John Russell Fearn (1908?1960) was one of the first British authors to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. A highly prolific author, he published under many pseudonyms (including Vargo Statten, Thornton Ayre, Polton Cross, Geoffrey Armstrong, John Cotton, Dennis Clive, Ephriam Winiki, and Astron Del Martia) as well as under his own name.