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THE FANTASTIC ISLAND
A Doc Savage Adventure by Kenneth Robeson
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? Chapter I. SHIPWRECKS TO ORDER
? Chapter II. ISLAND OF HORROR
? Chapter III. PRISONERS OF THE PITS
? Chapter IV. RADIO TRAP
? Chapter V. RUSSIAN TEA PARTY
? Chapter VI. THE PLATINUM PACKET
? Chapter VII. SUBWAY SEIZURE
? Chapter VIII. THE THUMB-HOLE DEATH
? Chapter IX. FLAMING FURY
? Chapter X. EQUATORIAL FLIGHT
? Chapter XI. SHREDDED DEATH
? Chapter XII. THE HONEYCOMB HORROR
? Chapter XIII. BITS OF HELL
? Chapter XIV. JUNGLE PALACE
? Chapter XV. MANGROVE MURDER
? Chapter XVI. PORTUGUESE FREEBOOTER
? Chapter XVII. THE RED RING
? Chapter XVIII. THE MOUNTAIN MAKERS
? Chapter XIX. HONEYCOMB OF THE DEVIL




Chapter I. SHIPWRECKS TO ORDER
THE disappearance of William Harper Littlejohn attracted no public attention whatever. The reason for
this was simple. The public never learned about it.

William Harper Littlejohn was a very famous man. It was impossible that, if ten average men on the street
should be stopped and asked who William Harper Littlejohn was, they would not have had the slightest
idea; but, in his field, William Harper Littlejohn was tops. His field was archaeology and geology.
Wherever men are interested in such things, he was known.

William Harper Littlejohn's disappearance was simple. He had chartered a ship and was taking an
archaeological expedition to the Galapagos Islands, below the equator in the Pacific Ocean. The
Galapagos are said to be the world's strangest islands. William Harper Littlejohn simply disappeared.
The ship vanished also. The whole expedition, too.

It could not have been that their radio merely failed. There were three radio transmitters on the expedition
ship. No, there was some other reason. It was strange.
Just how strange it was, no one had any idea at the beginning of the thing.

William Harper Littlejohn happened to be one of the five men associated with that remarkable man of
mystery, Doc Savage. Word of his disappearance reached Doc Savage at his New York headquarters.
Doc Savage acted promptly.