The four day weekend is turning into a monster. No time to yourself. The turkey sandwiches, turkey stew, and turkey anything are getting old. The cries to go shopping are reaching new heights. All the football games were too predictable. There’s not been a good Sasquatch flap or decent African dinosaur report all year. Otters, fox squirrels, and mangy bears are haunting your dreams.

You need a short break from “Black Friday,” (traditionally those 24 hours after Thanksgiving in which the malls are filled with holiday shoppers looking for cryptid replicas and supposedly other things).

How about a cryptofiction journey to the Lost World?

The “BBC – Cult Presents” site, a few years ago, published “Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Lost World” by Dominic Green.

Of course, it was the original The Lost World that inspired Bernard Heuvelmans to undertake his cryptozoological pursuits. A few years later, On the Track of Unknown Animals would be the result. It is always good to take a restful trek to the Lost World, understand it is the journey most of us can afford right now, and think of our brothers and sisters roughing it in Guyana, Mongolia, Sumatra or South Dakota presently.

Original art was produced for the BBC series, and this intriguing painting (above) accompanies Green’s short story. I could rapidly locate the name of the artist, but Brent Swancer (mystery man) has discovered the art is by Peter McKinstry.

The story is located here.

Thanks for an idea from Jim Jackaman for this.