Fields of Sleep: Where dreams are eternal... and no one wakes.

A lost expedition. A hypnotic flower cult. A valley where no one dreams-because no one wakes.

When Victor Marshall answers a mysterious advertisement in London, he's not expecting to be hired by an eccentric Frenchwoman obsessed with finding her missing son. The young man disappeared years ago in the East, chasing rumors of a hidden paradise known only as The Valley of Silent Men.

Armed with little more than a photograph and a generous advance, Marshall embarks on a journey that leads him through colonial outposts, whispered legends, and finally into the heart of an isolated jungle where an ancient race lives in peace under the influence of a strange, sleep-inducing flower. There is no war. No aging. No pain. Only endless, beautiful dreams-and the threat of death to anyone who resists.

But Marshall is not a man who surrenders easily.

Originally published in 1923, Fields of Sleep blends the pulp adventure of H. Rider Haggard with the strange, dreamlike atmosphere of Lord Dunsany and early Lovecraft. E. Charles Vivian explores the seductive pull of escapism and the psychological cost of paradise. Is this valley salvation-or a trap from which no one returns?

This edition, edited and introduced by Lucius Madison, features refined language, restored formatting, and a fresh foreword placing Vivian's work in the context of early fantasy and weird fiction. Ideal for readers of classic speculative literature rediscovered.