By Arthur Conan Doyle Novels • 1912 –
The Lost World, which describes an expedition to a plateau in South America where prehistoric creatures including dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and
Pleistocene megafauna still survive. • 1913 –
The Poison Belt, in which the Earth passes through a cloud of poisonous ether. • 1926 –
The Land of Mist, a story of the supernatural, reflecting the strong belief in
spiritualism which Conan Doyle developed later in life.
Short stories • 1928 – "
When the World Screamed", on Challenger's World Echinus theory. • 1929 – "
The Disintegration Machine", concerning the potentially dangerous new invention by a scientist named Theodore Nemor.
By other authors • "The Footprints on the Ceiling": Jules Castier in his 1919 anthology of pastiches
Rather Like. In the story, Edward Malone recounts how
Sherlock Holmes was called upon to locate the vanished, seemingly kidnapped, Professor Challenger. The story also was reprinted in the anthology,
The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (1944), edited by
Ellery Queen. • ''
Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds'':
Manly Wade Wellman and Wade Wellman. A slightly anachronistic romp, in which Sherlock Holmes and Challenger oppose
H. G. Wells'
Martian hordes and one of Holmes' old enemies. Holmes is the hero, but Challenger plays a major part. It is mentioned that Challenger helped Holmes solve the case of the
Giant Rat of Sumatra. •
Osamu Tezuka published in 1948 a
manga version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's
The Lost World. Tezuka's manga, however, is a Lost World unlike any other. Not an adaptation, this is a complete re-imagining of the story set on an alien planet. • There have been several other comic adaptations of Professor Challenger's exploits, but none that were particularly widespread and well known. A descendant of Professor Challenger, named Darwin Challenger, is a minor character in Valiant's
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter comics, first appearing in issue #7. He bears a strong resemblance to his ancestor and makes numerous references to events in the Lost World. Professor Challenger and his companions are also referenced in
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series. According to writer
Alan Moore, Challenger had a lifelong friendship with the zoologist
Dr. Dolittle. Arguably the most notable appearance is the
Dell Comics adaptation of the
1960 movie version of
The Lost World, as an issue of their
Four Color series. •
Return to the Lost World:
Nicholas Nye. A sequel set a year later than
The Lost World, which almost ignores the dinosaurs in favour of a plot involving parapsychology, an extremely odd version of evolutionary theory, and ancient technology in the style of
Chariots of the Gods?. While Conan Doyle's Challenger is a foe of scientific fraud, this novel begins with him preparing a scientific fake. • Challenger, alongside
Nikola Tesla, plays a major role in two of
Ralph Vaughan's four Sherlock Holmes/
H. P. Lovecraft crossovers,
The Adventure of the Dreaming Detective (
1992) and
Sherlock Holmes and the Terror Out of Time (
2001). • "Sherlock Holmes in the Lost World" (2008) by Martin Powell in anthology
Gaslight Grimoire (reprinted in
Sherlock Holmes: The Crossover Casebook), in which Challenger is lost in the Lost World again and rescued by Sherlock Holmes. Challenger has a daughter who is also "Professor Challenger". •
Dinosaur Summer:
Greg Bear. Thirty years after Professor Challenger discovered dinosaurs in
Venezuela, dinosaur
circuses have become popular and are slipping out of the spotlight. The one remaining dinosaur circus makes a bold move to return their dinosaurs to the plateau. Challenger himself never appears, but the protagonist's son attended Challenger High School. • In this sequel Professor Summerlee, Lord Roxton and the narrator Malone accompany Challenger on a journey to the moon, in a desperate bid to save the people of Ell Ka-Mar, who have crowned Challenger their king. • Challenger makes a guest appearance in the 3rd Plateau of
Gilles Deleuze &
Félix Guattari's post-structuralist philosophical text
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, in which he gives a lecture. • The
Gorilla Comics series
Section Zero, written by
Karl Kesel, featured a scientific genius named Titania "Doc" Challenger, implied to be Professor Challenger's descendant. •
Cult Holmes: The Lost World: In this BBC 7 Cult Holmes story, Holmes is investigating the damage done by Challenger in bringing dinosaurs over from the plateau. Malone's account of events is referred to as if it had been the version of events in the
BBC TV adaptation of
The Lost World, rather than the novel. • In
Los Sabios en Salamanca (The Sages in Salamanca), a Spanish short novel by
Alberto López Aroca, included in the book
Los Espectros Conjurados (), Challenger and his friend
Lord John Roxton meet Professor
Abraham Van Helsing (from
Bram Stoker's
Dracula) in
Salamanca, and attend a meeting of the Sociedad Hermética Española (a Spanish esoteric society). In the story also appear other characters, as H.P. Lovecraft's
Randolph Carter, and
Spanish writers
Francisco de Quevedo and
Diego de Torres Villarroel. • In the 1960 novel
World of the Gods by Pel Torro (a pseudonym of
Lionel Fanthorpe), a malevolent shapeshifting alien takes on the physical form of Professor Challenger, believing him to be a real-life Earth scientist, and is then forced to remain in this form for the rest of the novel. • The third book in the
Iris Wildthyme series by Obverse Books,
Miss Wildthyme and Friends Investigate, begins with a novella entitled
The Found World by
Jim Smith, a pseudo-sequel to
The Lost World featuring Challenger,
Dr. John H. Watson and Dracula, among others. • The third supplement for the
Forgotten Futures role playing game is ''George E. Challenger's Mysterious World'' (1994), based on and including the Challenger novels and stories. • Professor
William Rutherford, the real-life model for Challenger, is portrayed by actor
John Sessions in one of the series of BBC Films titled
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes. The episode by
Stephen Gallagher opens with the young Conan Doyle's attendance at a lantern slide lecture by famed explorer
Everard im Thurn featuring the 'Lost World' plateau of
Mount Roraima. The story goes on to hint at experiences that Doyle would later draw upon for the novel. • Professor Challenger is a major supporting character in the novel
Sherlock Holmes im Reich des Ctulhu ("Sherlock Holmes in the Realm of
Cthulhu") by
Klaus-Peter Walther and the audio play after that novel. ==Portrayals==