Charles Willing Beale (1845-1932) was a civil engineer, hotel owner, and an author of horror fiction. He was interested in the various odd occult and scientific theories of his days and explored them through his fiction. His most famous work is the short novel The Ghost of Guir House (1897), in which a ruined house allows a glimpse of a utopian future. The story delves into Theosophical matters, including hypnotism, and unfolds at a leisurely though relentless pace.
The Ghost of Guir HouseAccording to John Clute in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Beale even authored a “Hollow Earth” novel, The Secret of the Earth (1899), “...in which aeronauts piloting an Antigravity-powered Airship descend through a Symmes Hole at the North Pole into the expected Hollow Earth. They contact what seem
