The Table of Contents
Pipe Dreams Series
1. The Birth of Fu Manchu
2. I Planned to Kill Hindenburg!
3. Dancing Girl of Egypt ... The Green Eyes of Bâst
4. The Phantom Hound of Holm Peel
5. Mysteries of Egypt
6. The Voodoo Shepherd
7. When Little Tich Walked Off
8. "Breaking the Bank" at Monte Carlo
9. Were Houdini’s Feats Supernatural?
10. Eager Old Lady of the Atlantic
11. Nelson Keys and Captain Kettle
12. On the Red Road to Aleppo
Supplement: "Live Instruments of Villainy"
Lloyd’s Magazine Series
Dark Forces in Statecraft
Phryné in Pharaoh-Land
The Magic of the Nile
The City of a Hundred Gates
The Unwrapped Mummy
The Pearl of the Nile
The Halls of Mystery
My Impression of the Great Pyramid
The Occult East
The Music of Magic
Satan
Sorcery and Science
Preface to Apollogia Alchymiae
Anecdotes of a Writer
The Mystery of the Locked Room
The Birth of Fu Manchu
Meet Dr. Fu Manchu
A Journey in Space
Foreword to Tribute to the King
Death of the Jade Bride
Here and There
The Curse of a Hundred Kings
How Fu Manchu Was Born
The Birth of Fu Manchu
Appendix
Two Stories from Pause!
Interview
The Doctor’s Blade
The Polyglot Mr. Rohmer
When you think of Sax Rohmer, you also think about his literary creation, the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, the super-villain who in over one dozen, fast-paced novels seeks to dominate the world. But there is another Sax Rohmer, the British author of over seventy novels and collections of fiction, many of them set in the Middle East. Now add to his lively achievement the first-ever collection of the writer’s non-fiction. Pipe Dreams consists of thirty-five occasional articles and sketches, many of them memoirs, which between the 1910s and the 1950s appeared in newspapers and magazines in England and the United States. In these works Rohmer shares his insights into sorcery, occultism, astral travel, musical-hall personalities, Great War experiences, friendship with Harry Houdini, views on crime prevention, and the inspiration behind the creation of Fu Manchu. These works have been collected for the first time by John Robert Colombo. The foreword has been contributed by noted Rohmer expert Lawrence Knapp.
Sax Rohmer (1883-1959), one of the world’s most successful writers of popular fiction writers during the interwar years, published more than seventy works of exotic, oriental, mystery, detective, and thriller fiction.
John Robert Colombo, author and anthologist, compiled Rohmer’s The Sumuru Omnibus, co-wrote Rohmer’s Tears of Our Lady, and co-edited Rohmer’s The Crime Magnet.
Lawrence Knapp is a professor of English who founded and maintains The Page of Fu Manchu, the comprehensive site on the Internet for readers intrigued with Rohmeriana.
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