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born William Lancaster Gribbon; also wrote under the pseudonym of Walter Galt: a British pulp writer of oriental adventures. Best known as the author of King—of the Khyber Rifles and the Jimgrim series. His work was often compared with that of his more commercially successful contemporaries, H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling, although unlike their work his adopted an anti-colonialist stance and expressed a positive interest in Asian religion and philosophy. — Excerpted from Talbot Mundy on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Works
(partial list)
Novels
The Yasmini stories
- A Soldier and a Gentleman, (1914; in Adventure Jan 1914)
- The Winds of the World, (1915) no scan
- King—of the Khyber Rifles (1916) no scan
- Guns of the Gods: A Story of Yasmini's Youth, (1924; in Adventure March 3-May 3 1921 PG
- Caves of Terror a.k.a The Gray Mahatma, (1924 book; 1922 Adventure Magazine) PG
The Jimgrim, Ramsden, Ommony Stories
- Jimgrim and Allah's Peace (1921) PG
- Affair in Araby a.k.a Jimgrim and the Affair in Araby (1922 PG
- as The King in Check ) (1922 July 10, Adventure magazine
- The Iblis at Ludd (1922)
- The Seventeen Thieves of El-Kalil (1922 Adventure Magazine; 1935 book)
- The Lion of Petra (1922) PG
- The Woman Ayisha (1922)
- The Lost Trooper (1922)
- A Secret Society (1922)
- Moses and Mrs. Aintree (1922)
- The Mystery of Khufu's Tomb (1922)
- Jungle Jest a.k.a. Benefit of Doubt (1922)
- The Nine Unknown (1923 Adventure Magazine; 1924 book)
- The Marriage of Meldrum Strange (1923 Adventure Magazine)
- Mohammed's Tooth (1923, in Adventure; 1930 book, as The Hundred Days)
- Om—The Secret of Ahbor Valley (1924) (as Om, a 6-part serial in Adventure 1924)
Tros Of Samothrace
(Adventure Magazine 1925–26)
- Tros of Samothrace (February 10, 1925)
- The Enemy of Rome (April 10, 1925)
- Prisoners of War (June 10, 1925)
- Hostages to Luck (August 20, 1925
- Admiral of Caesar's Fleet (October 10, 1925)
- The Dancing Girl of Gades (December 10, 1925)
- Messenger Of Destiny, (3-part, February 10–28, 1926)
Other novels
- Rung Ho!: A novel a.k.a. For the Peace of India, (1914, in Adventure) PG
- Hira Singh: When India Came to Fight in Flanders (1918) no scan
- The Ivory Trail a.k.a. On the Trail of Tippoo Tib, (1919, Adventure Magazine9) PG
- The Eye of Zeitoon (1920) a.k.a. The Eye of ZeitunPG
- Told in the East (1920) PG
- Caesar Dies (1926) PG
- The Falling Star (1926 Oct 23, Adventure)
Works from magazines
- The Thrilling Adventures of Dick Anthony of Arran (published as The Sword of Iskander—The Adventures of Dick Anthony of Arran.)
- "The Sword of Iskander," (Adventure Magazine, Aug 1914)
- "Foul of the Czar, (Adventure Magazine, Sep 1914)
- "Go, Tell the Czar!," (Adventure Magazine, Oct 1914)
- "King Dick," (Adventure Magazine, Nov 1914)
- "Lancing The Whale," (Adventure Magazine, Dec 1914)
- "Disowned!," (Adventure Magazine, Jan 1915)
- "No Name," (Adventure Magazine, Feb 1915)
- "On Terms," (Adventure Magazine, Mar 1915)
- "The Lady and the Lord" (All-Story Magazine, Jun 1911)
- "The Chaplain of the Mullingars" (1912 June, Pall Mall) (ss)
- "The Goner" (1912 Aug, Pall Mall) (ss)
- "The Pillar of Light" (1912 Dec, Everybody's) (ss)
- "Climate and Conditions" (1913 Apr, Pall Mall) (ss)
- "'From Hell, Hull, and Halifax'" (1913 Aug, Everybody's) (ss)
- "The King in Check" (1922 July 10, Adventure magazine; in book form as "Affair in Araby," 1922) (novel) [Jimgrim]
- Non-fiction
- "Elephant Hunting for a Living" (1913 Feb, Pall Mall) (ar)
- "Blighty," (1918, Adventure Magazine) filler
- "Patriotism and the Plow-Tail" (1918 June, Everybody's) (essay)
Works on Talbot Mundy
- Talbot Mundy Biblio: Materials Toward a Bibliography of the Works of Talbot Mundy, by Bradford M. Day (Editor) Project Gutenberg
- Last Adventurer: The Life of Talbot Mundy, 1984, by Peter Berresford Ellis
- Talbot Mundy, Philosopher of Adventure: A Critical Biography, 2005, by Brian Taves
External links
PG Ebooks at Project Gutenberg
A larger selection of his works is available at Project Gutenberg (Aus)
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1927.
The author died in 1940, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.