In Literature and Philosophy
The following individuals are known for having written on the subject of lost lands:
- H.P. Blavatsky
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- William L. Chester, (Nato'wa, Kioga book series)
- James Churchward
- Ignatius L. Donnelly
- Arthur Conan Doyle, (The Lost World)
- Burak Eldem
- Warren Ellis
- Philip José Farmer
- James Gurney(Dinotopia)
- H Rider Haggard
- Robert A. Heinlein in his novelette Lost Legacy
- James Hilton, (Lost Horizon)
- H. P. Lovecraft often invoked the names of lost lands of his own invention, a practice that subsequently gave birth to the Cthulhu mythos.
- Plato
- Augustus Le Plongeon
- Zecharia Sitchin
- Samael Aun Weor
- J. R. R. Tolkien, (Middle-earth)
- Jack Vance describing the Elder Isles in his Lyonesse Trilogy
- Jules Verne used the idea of a partially hollow Earth in his 1864 novel, A Journey to the Center of the Earth.
- Lost lands figured prominently in the philosophy of the Nazi Thule society in regards to researchers of the occult and Nazi mysticism such as Karl Maria Wiligut, Heinrich Himmler and Otto Rahn.
- A lost land (possibly the Garden of Eden) found at the center of the Earth is the site of the climatic battle between Godzilla and Biollante in the novel Godzilla at World's End by Marc Cerasini.
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