Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian von Troomp — “the little baron” — is a boy nobleman whose infant head was swelled by a bath in African mud, and who sails the world with his dog Bulger, meeting people who eat wind, statues that live, and dwarfs who hop instead of walk. He narrates it all with preposterous…

On the night of November 3rd, 1896, New York learns that William Jennings Bryan has won the presidency, and the city erupts — mobs in the dark, regiments stretched wall to wall across Madison Square, dead wagons rattling till daybreak. Lockwood’s eleven-thousand-word future history, published during the actual campaign, runs the republic forward four years…

A fifteenth-century Spanish manuscript claims the earth is hollow and inhabited, and little Baron Trump — boy nobleman, insufferable prodigy — means to prove it. With his dog Bulger he crosses Russia to the northern Urals, squeezes down a graphite-greased stone funnel, and begins a five-hundred-mile walk beneath the mountains, through nations of transparent people,…

Delve into ‘The Complete Ingersoll Lockwood Collection,’ featuring the full range of Lockwood’s intriguing works. Known for his prescient novels, including ‘Baron Trump’s Marvelous Underground Journey’ and ‘1900: The Last President,’ Lockwood’s writings blend elements of science fiction, political foresight, and adventure. This collection is a treasure trove for enthusiasts of late 19th-century literature, speculative…