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June 24, 2007

"The Lady and the Lord"

This story, originally appearing in the June 1911 issue of All-Story Magazine, is quite different from the exotic action tales that Mundy wrote for Adventure and Argosy.

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"The Lady and the Lord"

by Talbot Mundy. This story, originally appearing in the June 1911 issue of All-Story Magazine, is quite different from the exotic action tales that Mundy wrote for Adventure and Argosy.

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June 20, 2007

Talbot Mundy Sues Standard Film Industries, Inc.

Georges Dodds provides this newspaper clipping about Adventure writer Mundy's bringing suit against a film company that had optioned rights for two of his stories, including King, of the Khyber Rifles.

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June 16, 2007

The Ice Sphinx: Verne’s Sequel to Poe’s Arthur Gordon Pym

by Brian Taves. This essay was written by Library of Congress researcher and Verne scholar Brian Taves as an introduction to The Ice Sphinx, published by Wildside Press.

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June 02, 2007

Talbot Mundy, Englishman, Beaten and Robbed

Georges Dodds provided the following newspaper stories about Talbot Mundy, which appeared soon after his arrival in New York. These columns of type provide a look at Mundy's life while he was still something of a rascal, before he settled down to being a popular author of adventure fiction.

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