The Big Book of Adventure Stories ed. Otto Penzler (Vintage, 2011, 978-0-307-47450-6, $25.00, 874pp, tp, an)
Reprints forty-seven classic adventure stories.
- xi · Foreword · Douglas Preston · fw (r)
- xiii · Introduction · Otto Penzler · in (r)
- · Sword and Sorcery
- 3 · The Golden Snare [Lady Fulvia of Rocca Forte] · Farnham Bishop & Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur · ss Adventure mid April 1918
- 15 · The Devil in Iron [Conan] · Robert E. Howard · nv Weird Tales August 1934
- 34 · The Mighty Manslayer [Khlit the Cossack] · Harold Lamb · nv Adventure mid October 1918
- 73 · The Seven Black Priests [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] · Fritz Leiber · nv Other Worlds May 1953
- · Megalomania Rules
- 91 · The Master Magician [Peter the Brazen] · Loring Brent · nv Argosy February 25 1933
- 126 · The Most Dangerous Game · Richard Connell · nv Collier’s January 19 1924
- 136 · The Man Who Would Be King · Rudyard Kipling · nv The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling, Wheeler, 1888
- 158 · The Wings of Kali [Richard Wentworth (The Spider)] · Grant Stockbridge (by Norvell W. Page) · ss The Spider May 1942
- · Man vs. Nature
- 167 · The White Silence [The Malemute Kid] · Jack London · ss Overland Monthly February 1899
- 174 · Sredni Vashtar · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette May 28 1910
- 178 · The Seed from the Sepulcher · Clark Ashton Smith · ss Weird Tales October 1933
- 186 · Leiningen Versus the Ants · Carl Stephenson · nv Esquire December 1938
translated from the German (“Leiningens Kampf mit den Ameisen”, 1937).
- 200 · The Sea Raiders · H. G. Wells · ss The Weekly Sun Literary Supplement December 6 1896
- · Island Paradise
- 209 · Hell Cay · Lester Dent · ss (r)
- 228 · Off the Mangrove Coast · Louis L’Amour · ss Off the Mangrove Coast by Louis L'Amour, Bantam, 2000
- 238 · The Golden Anaconda · Elmer Brown Mason · nv The Popular Magazine February 20 1916
- 256 · Shanghai Jim · Frank L. Packard · nv Cosmopolitan October 1926
- 279 · The Python Pit [Singapore Sammy] · George F. Worts · na Argosy May 6 1933 (+2)
- · Sand and Sun
- 327 · The Soul of a Turk · Achmed Abdullah · ss (r)
- 335 · Peace Waits at Marokee · H. Bedford-Jones · ss Adventure November 1940
- 348 · Nor Idolatry Blind the Eye · Gabriel Hunt · nv (r)
- 371 · The Soul of a Regiment · Talbot Mundy · ss Adventure February 1912
- 380 · Snake-Head [Thibaut Corday] · Theodore Roscoe · nv Argosy January 7 1939
- 399 · Suicide Patrol · Georges Surdez · na Adventure August 1934
- 431 · A Gentleman of Color [Foreign Legion: The Geste Brothers] · P. C. Wren · ss Cosmopolitan February 1929, as “Geisha Girl”
- · Something Feels Funny
- 445 · After King Kong Fell [Wold Newton] · Philip José Farmer · nv Omega ed. Roger Elwood, Walker US, 1973
- 455 · Moonlight Sonata · Alexander Woollcott · ts The New Yorker October 3 1931
- · Go West, Young Man
- 461 · The Caballero’s Way [The Cisco Kid] · O. Henry · ss Everybody’s Magazine July 1907
- 469 · Zorro Deals with Treason [Zorro] · Johnston McCulley · nv Argosy August 18 1934
- 487 · Hopalong’s Hop [Hopalong Cassidy] · Clarence E. Mulford · ss Pearson’s Magazine (US) November 1912
- · Future Shock
- 497 · The Girl in the Golden Atom [The Scientific Club] · Ray Cummings · na All-Story Weekly March 15 1919
- 528 · To Serve Man · Damon Knight · ss Galaxy Science Fiction November 1950
- 534 · Armageddon—2419 A.D. [Anthony “Buck” Rogers] · Philip Francis Nowlan · na Amazing Stories August 1928
- · I Spy
- 581 · Woman in Love · Geoffrey Household · ss This Week 1952
- 588 · MacHinery and the Cauliflowers · Alistair MacLean · ss The Lonely Sea by Alistair MacLean, Collins, 1985
- 595 · Wheels Within Wheels [Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond] · H. C. McNeile · ss The Strand Magazine November 1937, as by Sapper
- 606 · A Question of Passports [Sir Percy Blakeney (Scarlet Pimpernel)] · Baroness Orczy · ss The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy, Cassell, 1919
- 613 · Intelligence · Rafael Sabatini · ss The Grand Magazine January 1918
- · Yellow Peril
- 625 · The Copper Bowl · George Fielding Eliot · ss Weird Tales December 1928
- 633 · The Hand of the Mandarin Quong · Sax Rohmer · ss Munsey’s Magazine February 1922, as “The Mystery of the Shriveled Hand”
revised from “Hand of the White Sheikh”, Cassell’s Magazine December, 1920.
- · In Darkest Africa
- 647 · The Green Wildebeest [Richard Hannay; The Runagates Club] · John Buchan · nv Pall Mall Magazine September 1927
- 659 · The Slave Brand of Sleman Bin Ali [Sheena] · James Anson Buck · nv Stories of Sheena—Queen of the Jungle Spring 1951
- 685 · Fire [Aubrey St. John Major] · L. Patrick Greene · nv Short Stories June 10 1930
- 704 · Hunter Quatermain’s Story [Allan Quatermain] · H. Rider Haggard · ss In a Good Cause, Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co., 1885
- 715 · Bosambo of Monrovia [Sanders of the River] · Edgar Wallace · ss The Weekly Tale-Teller #46, March 19 1910
- 723 · Black Cargo · Cornell Woolrich · nv Argosy July 31 1937
- 741 · Tarzan the Terrible [Tarzan] · Edgar Rice Burroughs · n. McClurg, 1921
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