John Carter returns to Barsoom, battling the deadly false religion of the Therns and racing to rescue his princess Dejah Thoris.
Books mentioned in The Gods of Mars (1)
Inferno by Dante Alighieri: “As they lay sprawled about the floor, sometimes overlapping one another, again in heaps of several bodies, they suggested instantly to me the grotesque illustrations that I had seen in copies of Dante's INFERNO, and what more fitting comparison?”