A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder us a satiric and fantastic romance is set in an imaginary semi-tropical land in Antarctica inhabited by prehistoric monsters and a cult of death-worshipers called the Kosekin. Begun many years before it was published, it is reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poeâs The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and anticipates the exotic locale and fantasy-adventure elements of works of the âLost World genreâ such as Arthur Conan Doyleâs The Lost World and Edgar Rice Burroughsâ The Land That Time Forgot, as well as innumerable prehistoric world movies based loosely on these and other works.