Author:Talbot Mundy

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Talbot Mundy (1879–1940)

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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: much of his work was published in pulp magazines. 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.

WorksEdit

(partial list)

NovelsEdit

The Yasmini storiesEdit

• 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, (1921) in Adventure, March 3-May 3 1921 ^PG
• Caves of Terror AKA The Grey Mahatma, (1922) in Adventure, Nov 10 1922 ^PG

The Jimgrim/Ramsden/Ommony StoriesEdit

• Jimgrim and Allah's Peace (1921) ^PG
• Affair in Araby AKA Jimgrim and the Affair in Araby AKA The King in Check (1922) ^PG
• The Iblis at Ludd (1922)
• The Seventeen Thieves of El-Kalil (1922)
• 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 AKA Benefit of Doubt (1922)

Other novelsEdit

• Rung Ho!: A novel AKA For the Peace of India, (1914) in Adventure ^PG
• Hira Singh: When India Came to Fight in Flanders (1918) no scan
• The Ivory Trail AKA On the Trail of Tippoo Tib, Adventure May 1919 ^PG
• The Eye of Zeitoon (1920) AKA The Eye of Zeitun ^PG
• Told in the East (1920) ^PG
• Caesar Dies (1926) ^PG

Short stories and collectionsEdit

• "The Lady and the Lord"
• "Jimgrim, Moses, and Mrs. Aintree", 1922 (First book publication of magazine story, 2008)

^PG Ebooks at Project Gutenberg
A larger selection of his works is available at Project Gutenberg (Aus)

Works on Talbot MundyEdit

• 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