Archival displacements of authorship, philological distancing, the library (generic
backdrop) and the geological record
Poe, Ms. Found in a Bottle (1853) Samuel Butler, Erewhon (1872) James De Mille, A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888) John Uri Loyd, Etidorhpa, or, the end of the earth (1895) Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu (1928) Also, The Coming Race as touchstone for hollow earth genre?