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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Underground MovementBy Paul CampWritng about Ray Palmer (1910-1977), the gnomelike and energetic editor of _Amazing Stories_, Theodore Stugeon said: "To this day, fights start in bars over the 'Shaver Mystery' or the 'Shaver Hoax,' depending upon who's doing the swinging at the moment. There is as much documentation that Ray believed in it as that he didn't, and I for one don't much care: true or not, it was a colorful and kooky piece of business..." (_Sturgeon in Orbit_, 1964, 105).Richard S. Shaver (1907-1975) was a semi-literate welder at a Ford plant in Detroit who began to hear voices on the job-- at first, the thoughts of his fellow workers and then those of humans being tortured by evil creatures living in caverns deep underground. He was in and out of mental institutions, where he was treated for paranoid schizophrenia. (Among other things, he was convinced that he was being stalked by a demon named Max.)One day, Shaver began a correspondence with Ray Palmer at _Amazing_. Palmer encouraged Shaver to write more. Many of Shaver's tales were presented as factual: racial memories of real-life events in the past. There was a flood of letters in response, and the circulation of _Amazing_ shot up. It changed from a quarterly to a monthly magazine almost overnight.Shaver's thesis is that there were once a band of benevolent races living together in Lemuria: Titans, satyrs, sibyls, centaurs, and the like. But they began to be poisoned by radiation from the sun and were forced to leave the planet. Many of their descendants mutated into evil creatures called deros who live inside a hollow earth. The deros use ancient machines left underground to read the minds of humans. Other underground machines are used to emit rays that cause disease and insanity or that incite wars. The deros come in and out of holes at the North and South poles in flying machines to kidnap people to torture and eat.Authorship of Shaver's pieces is a bit problematic. Some pieces were rewritten by Palmer and other Ziff-Davis writers to smooth out grammar and mechanics, give them a more coherent plot, and excise or tone down sadomasochistic sex scenes. (One piece submitted by Shaver had a sex scene that ran on for fifty pages.) But they do have an odd charm. There are the numerous footnotes in which Shaver explains the odd bits of ancient language that pop up in the body of the text, or the reasons why the deros may form an alliance with the Nazis in the near future. There are the sections with off-trail observations. ("'Evil' is 'live' spelled backwards".)_Lost Continents The Hollow Earth_ (1999) by David Hatcher Childress and Richard Shaver is, I suppose, a reasonably entertaining introduction to Shaverism. It has a garish and action-packed cover and a generous number of pulp illustrations (covers, interiors, cartoons, and original Shaver drawings) that graced Shaver oriented issues. It contains the two most reprinted Shaver pieces, "I Remember Lemuria" and "The Return of Sathanas". There is also an alphabet that Shaver claimed was the ancient source of all our languages today. Wow! And there are five essays by Childress on Shaverism in which he concludes that There Must Be Something In It.The Shaver Mystery pieces appeared in _Amazing_ from 1945 through 1947. By 1948, the publishers pulled the plug on the series. Shaver later continued to write Lemuria pieces for Palmer-edited magazines like _Other Worlds_ and _Fate_. But by the early 1950s, his heyday as a writer was over. It seems incredible that stories this wild, this nonsensical, and this badly written were taken seriously as fact by anybody. But they were. Raymond W. Bernard, a Rosicrucian leader, believed Shaver's claim that the hollow earth people had taught him the secrets of relativity before Einstein. Bernard died of pneumonia in 1965 on an expedition to South America. He was looking for openings into the hollow earth at the time.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. a Book for the lovers of The Odd and WeirdBy Clint H. HoytIf you want to find out about some of the ideas of the Hollow Earth Theory, then you can read this book. the two stories in it: 'I Remember Lemuria' and 'The Return of Sathanas' by Richard S. Shaver, takes people back to the very early days of Science Fiction. while the rest talks about The Shaver Mystery, Hollow Earth and a few other Mysteries connected to those subjects. If you like the weird and odd, then read this book.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy La Fan de I love these kind of stories. They sound unbelievable but guess what, I do believe his stories.