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Arthur Conan Doyle

The bombastic Professor Challenger is convinced that a sentient being lurks in the mantle of the earth. Aided by Edward Malone and Peerless Jones, he must drill down through the earth’s crust to alert the creature of humankind’s existence. 

After his debut in The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle went on to develop the grandiloquent Professor Challenger in four other works. When the World Screamed is the fourth in the series, and a satisfying addition to the canon.

B.J. Harrison

Professor Challenger Series

When the World Screamed

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

When the World Screamed was a story written about Professor Challenger by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was first published in Liberty magazine, 25 February – 3 March 1928. This short story is a part of the “Challenger series”, a collection of stories about the wealthy eccentric adventurer Professor Challenger. Professor Challenger, with the help of Mr Edward Malone and Mr Peerless Jones, drills into the earth until he reaches the mantle, convinced that it is a sentient being, akin to an echinus, and that by doing so he will be the first person to alert it to mankind’s presence. He awakens the giant creature, which then proceeds to destroy his excavation, covering the spectators with a noxious liquid in the process.

Barnaby Edwards

Spokenworld Audio/Ladbroke Audio Ltd

When The World Screamed

The Disintegration Machine is a very short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle. It was first published in Strand Magazine in January 1929. The story centers around the discovery of a machine capable of disintegrating objects and reforming them as they were. This short story is a part of the “Challenger series”, a collection of stories about the wealthy eccentric adventurer Professor Challenger. Professor Challenger is arguing with people who are persistently calling him on the telephone when his young friend Malone, a reporter for the Gazette, enters and requests Challenger accompany him to inspect the discovery of Theodore Nemor, who claims to have invented a machine capable of disintegrating objects. Skeptical of the invention, Challenger accepts Malone’s proposal and accompanies him to the house of Nemor. At first Nemor offers to disintegrate Challenger and put him back together to demonstrate the machine, but Malone convinces Challenger that should the machine fail to restore him, his scientific work would go unfinished, and thus Malone nominates himself to be disintegrated.

The Disintegration Machine

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