Category: Adventure

  This is a collection of six stories (including one serial) published by Black Dog Books. The stories were originally written by Gordon MacCreagh for Argosy magazine from 1919-1920. It also has a comprehensive 31 page biography of the author by Tom Roberts, with 10 photos of the author and other illustrations. Tom Roberts makes… Continue reading Review: The Adventures of Jehannum Smith by Gordon MacCreagh

I spent some time putting Adventure’s series characters on a map so that you could pick an adventure of an area you choose, and I think I did a reasonable job of it. If you have additional characters I could include, drop a line in the comments section.  

Many days ago, Tom Johnson had observed in the comments on this post that there are very few adventurers left today. The BBC just posted an article on the adventures that remain and the people who are tackling those. Thought you might enjoy it.

This is an off-trail recommendation; I don’t normally post about science fiction or fantasy here, but this is too good an offer to pass up. Barry Hughart’s excellent Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox are now available in an omnibus for three dollars. The first novel – “Bridge of Birds” – is alone… Continue reading Fantasy Adventure book – The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox – Great bargain

I see that Altus Press have made the first volume of Theodore Roscoe‘s Thibaud Corday stories available. Go grab it from Amazon or get the limited edition hardcover from Lulu.