High Adventure #140 H BedfordJones Murray Leinster Chester Saxby John P Gunnison 9781597985215 Books
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Two Book Detective Magazine Special The Man Who Could Not Die - H. Bedford-Jones "What was the terrible secret that drove men to murder and women to commit suicide?" The Black Stone of Agharti - Murray Leinster "Thieving the most famous gem of the Far East from a Mongolian monastery is quite a job for an army—let alone a single white man." 7x10 110 pages ISBN 1-59798-521-X ISBN-13 978-1-59798-521-5
High Adventure #140 H BedfordJones Murray Leinster Chester Saxby John P Gunnison 9781597985215 Books
And so we are here, at the one hundred and fortieth issue of the print-on-demand magazine "High Adventure", a magazine dedicated to the glory and preservation of the pulps and the fiction that they published.********And this issue starts off with the long-lost novella 'The Man Who Could Not Die' by one of the pulps most popular authors, H. Bedford-Jones (Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones: 1887-1949). Here the young, and struggling, doctor Jim Bonner and his fiancée/secretary Bess are visited one Friday morning by Joseph Balsamon. Balsamon is a fellow medical practitioner who has cut his hand on some broken glass in an automobile accident. Balsamon claims to have an ability to heal, wounds, disease, etc., in a miraculous manner, and to be the sixteenth century healer/magician Cagliastro. Balsamon will then cure a visiting tubercle woman of her tuberculous who is a patient of Bonner's in front of Bonner, Bess, and Paul Garrett, who is Bess' younger brother.
The next day Bonner and Garrett are offered the chance to work for Balsamon at a fantastic salary, and to learn great things. However, meanwhile Bonner is drawn into a strange case in which there have been a series of suicides off of Suicide Bridge, forty-one so far, and this time it is of a once vital person, who has now been reduced to a badly scarred, emaciated, and nude woman. Why did she commit suicide, why is she nude, and where did she come from? Mysteries that need to be solved.
Balsamon continues to make increasingly insistent offers for Bonner to work for him, and the mysterious deaths continue, as another body shows up, and Bonner's policeman friend is killed. But another detective, Ferguson, takes his place, and the investigation intensifies as Paul starts working for Balsamon. Taking some time off, Bess and Bonner will get married, go on a honeymoon, and upon returning home, Bess will be kidnapped and then just as mysteriously returned by Balsamon. And what do a bunch of demented, deformed dwarves have to do with all of this?
And the bodies continue to show up!
Truly a bit of weird pulp detective fiction that one rarely sees published anymore. Fast-paced, improbably plotted, and filled with super-science, and a lot of cliffhangers and last minute escapes. And within its pages you will find a mad scientist, mind control, telepathy, reanimation, grave stealing, killer dwarves, murder, suicide, kidnapping, immortality, medical miracles, and explosions. Enough stuff here for a full-length novel.
This short, sixty-five page novella also has a great illustration by Harry Lemon Parkhurst (1876-1962) that doesn't seem to actually illustrate anything in the story. The cover by an unknown artist is reprinted from the "Two Book Detective Magazine" pulp from which this story is reprinted from, doesn't really illustrated anything in this story either, but it DOES sport a great portrait of Bela Logosi.
********Up next is 'The Black Stone Of Agharti' by prolific pulp contributor Murray Leinster (William Fitzgerald Jenkins: 1896-1975), who is better known today for his science fiction. This story is part of Leinster's "Collins" series, who was a supreme thief who only stole for a good cause. In this case Collins is asked by the Bogdo Khan to steal the famed Black Stone from the current Living Buddha. Or re-steal it, as it was originally stolen from the Bogdo Khan's tribe about a hundred years ago. A pretty straightforward adventure crime story, very well told, and filled with Leinster's typically meticulous plotting and attention to detail. If you like Leinster's science fiction, you'll probably like this story. I found it fun, and it seems to have a droll sense of humor to it.
********'The Great Joke Of Lope Da Gamma' by Murray Leinster is his second story reprinted here. This time the story is narrated by an unnamed visitor to the Hungry Country, which is the isolated sugar cane plantations of Portuguese West Africa, and it is here that the story of the downfall of the pretentious pig Lope Da Gamma is told. Da Gamma, who while drunk one night goes just too far in abusing the natives in his attempt to "civilize" the native blacks into the white civilized world.
Of course, after a week of drunkenness, Da Gamma is drunk beyond reason, and his attempts, through brutality, humiliation, slavery, rape, and attempted rape will cause his downfall. Told in a world-weary, almost cynical manner, the story at first sounds insulting patronisticaly racist, but eventually the narrator's attitudes become clear as the story ends up being a scathing indictment of such racist feelings, and whose contempt for slavery, slavers, and white superiority, probably went right over the heads of the readers of the pulp that this story was originally published in. However, most modern readers will catch on as the unnamed narrator's attitudes will become clear.
Again, another story that shows why Leinster was one of the top-notch authors of his day, regardless of whatever genre he wrote in.
********'Blue Heaven' by Chester L. Saxby (1891-1969) story has Leskell, a man who is down on his luck even though he has a million dollar contract with the Japanese government to harvest camphor from Formosa's camphor trees. Unfortunately, the dense jungles are inhabited by the murderous, and headhunting, Chinhwan who put a stop to anybody going into their jungles. And then Sanson, an old friend of Leskell's, drifts into his orbit, and Sanson is in equally bad straits, having destroyed a love affair between him and a much younger woman. Sensing a new purpose to his life, Sanson begins to learn Chinhwanesse in an attempt to communicate with the natives and get the camphor harvesting back on track. Despite the brutality of the sacrifice that Sanson has to go through to succeed, and the sad sense of cynicism that saturates this tale, it is ultimately a character study about the lengths of sacrifice that somebody will go through to succeed. It is also well written, and so worth reading and rediscovering.
********Up next is 'Bared Fangs' by William Byron Mowrey and this is another character study, this time the character is Borus, a dog whose master is murdered by an interloper. This story is short, and deals with the dog's survival after his owner is murdered, and how through events beyond his control, he brings justice to the murder of his beloved master. Slick, rich in irony, and clearly influence by Jack London, this story could have easily appeared in an issue of "The Saturday Evening Post" instead of the obscure pulp "Rapid Fire Action Stories" in 1932. Sad, but read it now. An easy five star story for animal story buffs.
********Rounding out the stories is 'A Modern Mexican Adventure' which is a three-quarter page filler in which the uncredited author details how a man is kidnapped by a bunch of banditos, and who then proceeds to get them drunk through some smuggled alcohol and his escape. Robert Howard would have turned this uncredited story into a real blood and thunder action tale, but this anecdote is still pretty good as it is.
All-in-all, this is another great issue of this print-on-demand magazine that constantly reprints some really obscure winners from some of the long lost, and often rare, pulp magazines of America's past.
For pulp fiction fans, this is an issue worth buying and reading as soon as one can.
For this site I have reviewed these other adventure-type pulp material:
Blood 'n' Thunder: Winter/Spring 2013 edited by Ed Hulse.
Bull's-Eye Detective - Fall/38: Adventure House Presents: edited by Malcolm Reiss.
G-8 and His Battle Aces #18: The Death Monsters by Robert J. Hogan.
G-8 and His Battle Aces #28: The Patrol Of The Dead by Robert J. Hogan.
G-8 and His Battle Aces #29: Skeletons Of The Black Cross by Robert J. Hogan.
G-8 and His Battle Aces #45: Flight From The Grave by Robert J. Hogan.
Miracle Science and Fantasy Stories - 06-07/31 edited by Elliot Dold.
Pulp Review #13 edited by John P. Gunnison.
Variety Novels Magazine - 09/38: Adventure House Presents: edited by Anonymous.
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And so we are here, at the one hundred and fortieth issue of the print-on-demand magazine "High Adventure", a magazine dedicated to the glory and preservation of the pulps and the fiction that they published.
********And this issue starts off with the long-lost novella 'The Man Who Could Not Die' by one of the pulps most popular authors, H. Bedford-Jones (Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones 1887-1949). Here the young, and struggling, doctor Jim Bonner and his fiancée/secretary Bess are visited one Friday morning by Joseph Balsamon. Balsamon is a fellow medical practitioner who has cut his hand on some broken glass in an automobile accident. Balsamon claims to have an ability to heal, wounds, disease, etc., in a miraculous manner, and to be the sixteenth century healer/magician Cagliastro. Balsamon will then cure a visiting tubercle woman of her tuberculous who is a patient of Bonner's in front of Bonner, Bess, and Paul Garrett, who is Bess' younger brother.
The next day Bonner and Garrett are offered the chance to work for Balsamon at a fantastic salary, and to learn great things. However, meanwhile Bonner is drawn into a strange case in which there have been a series of suicides off of Suicide Bridge, forty-one so far, and this time it is of a once vital person, who has now been reduced to a badly scarred, emaciated, and nude woman. Why did she commit suicide, why is she nude, and where did she come from? Mysteries that need to be solved.
Balsamon continues to make increasingly insistent offers for Bonner to work for him, and the mysterious deaths continue, as another body shows up, and Bonner's policeman friend is killed. But another detective, Ferguson, takes his place, and the investigation intensifies as Paul starts working for Balsamon. Taking some time off, Bess and Bonner will get married, go on a honeymoon, and upon returning home, Bess will be kidnapped and then just as mysteriously returned by Balsamon. And what do a bunch of demented, deformed dwarves have to do with all of this?
And the bodies continue to show up!
Truly a bit of weird pulp detective fiction that one rarely sees published anymore. Fast-paced, improbably plotted, and filled with super-science, and a lot of cliffhangers and last minute escapes. And within its pages you will find a mad scientist, mind control, telepathy, reanimation, grave stealing, killer dwarves, murder, suicide, kidnapping, immortality, medical miracles, and explosions. Enough stuff here for a full-length novel.
This short, sixty-five page novella also has a great illustration by Harry Lemon Parkhurst (1876-1962) that doesn't seem to actually illustrate anything in the story. The cover by an unknown artist is reprinted from the "Two Book Detective Magazine" pulp from which this story is reprinted from, doesn't really illustrated anything in this story either, but it DOES sport a great portrait of Bela Logosi.
********Up next is 'The Black Stone Of Agharti' by prolific pulp contributor Murray Leinster (William Fitzgerald Jenkins 1896-1975), who is better known today for his science fiction. This story is part of Leinster's "Collins" series, who was a supreme thief who only stole for a good cause. In this case Collins is asked by the Bogdo Khan to steal the famed Black Stone from the current Living Buddha. Or re-steal it, as it was originally stolen from the Bogdo Khan's tribe about a hundred years ago. A pretty straightforward adventure crime story, very well told, and filled with Leinster's typically meticulous plotting and attention to detail. If you like Leinster's science fiction, you'll probably like this story. I found it fun, and it seems to have a droll sense of humor to it.
********'The Great Joke Of Lope Da Gamma' by Murray Leinster is his second story reprinted here. This time the story is narrated by an unnamed visitor to the Hungry Country, which is the isolated sugar cane plantations of Portuguese West Africa, and it is here that the story of the downfall of the pretentious pig Lope Da Gamma is told. Da Gamma, who while drunk one night goes just too far in abusing the natives in his attempt to "civilize" the native blacks into the white civilized world.
Of course, after a week of drunkenness, Da Gamma is drunk beyond reason, and his attempts, through brutality, humiliation, slavery, rape, and attempted rape will cause his downfall. Told in a world-weary, almost cynical manner, the story at first sounds insulting patronisticaly racist, but eventually the narrator's attitudes become clear as the story ends up being a scathing indictment of such racist feelings, and whose contempt for slavery, slavers, and white superiority, probably went right over the heads of the readers of the pulp that this story was originally published in. However, most modern readers will catch on as the unnamed narrator's attitudes will become clear.
Again, another story that shows why Leinster was one of the top-notch authors of his day, regardless of whatever genre he wrote in.
********'Blue Heaven' by Chester L. Saxby (1891-1969) story has Leskell, a man who is down on his luck even though he has a million dollar contract with the Japanese government to harvest camphor from Formosa's camphor trees. Unfortunately, the dense jungles are inhabited by the murderous, and headhunting, Chinhwan who put a stop to anybody going into their jungles. And then Sanson, an old friend of Leskell's, drifts into his orbit, and Sanson is in equally bad straits, having destroyed a love affair between him and a much younger woman. Sensing a new purpose to his life, Sanson begins to learn Chinhwanesse in an attempt to communicate with the natives and get the camphor harvesting back on track. Despite the brutality of the sacrifice that Sanson has to go through to succeed, and the sad sense of cynicism that saturates this tale, it is ultimately a character study about the lengths of sacrifice that somebody will go through to succeed. It is also well written, and so worth reading and rediscovering.
********Up next is 'Bared Fangs' by William Byron Mowrey and this is another character study, this time the character is Borus, a dog whose master is murdered by an interloper. This story is short, and deals with the dog's survival after his owner is murdered, and how through events beyond his control, he brings justice to the murder of his beloved master. Slick, rich in irony, and clearly influence by Jack London, this story could have easily appeared in an issue of "The Saturday Evening Post" instead of the obscure pulp "Rapid Fire Action Stories" in 1932. Sad, but read it now. An easy five star story for animal story buffs.
********Rounding out the stories is 'A Modern Mexican Adventure' which is a three-quarter page filler in which the uncredited author details how a man is kidnapped by a bunch of banditos, and who then proceeds to get them drunk through some smuggled alcohol and his escape. Robert Howard would have turned this uncredited story into a real blood and thunder action tale, but this anecdote is still pretty good as it is.
All-in-all, this is another great issue of this print-on-demand magazine that constantly reprints some really obscure winners from some of the long lost, and often rare, pulp magazines of America's past.
For pulp fiction fans, this is an issue worth buying and reading as soon as one can.
For this site I have reviewed these other adventure-type pulp material
Blood 'n' Thunder Winter/Spring 2013 edited by Ed Hulse.
Bull's-Eye Detective - Fall/38 Adventure House Presents edited by Malcolm Reiss.
G-8 and His Battle Aces #18 The Death Monsters by Robert J. Hogan.
G-8 and His Battle Aces #28 The Patrol Of The Dead by Robert J. Hogan.
G-8 and His Battle Aces #29 Skeletons Of The Black Cross by Robert J. Hogan.
G-8 and His Battle Aces #45 Flight From The Grave by Robert J. Hogan.
Miracle Science and Fantasy Stories - 06-07/31 edited by Elliot Dold.
Pulp Review #13 edited by John P. Gunnison.
Variety Novels Magazine - 09/38 Adventure House Presents edited by Anonymous.
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