More like this please. Fiction of 1885-1935. Horror, Romance, Adventure, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fairy Tale, Pulp, Sword and Sorcery, Sword and Sandal, Detective, Lost World, Jungle, Chivalry. Here's a quick primer:>1885 King Solomon's Mines, H Rider Haggard>1886 Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson>1887 She, H Rider Haggard>1890 Occurrence at Owl Creek Ridge, Ambrose Bierce>1894 the Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling >1895 the Time Machine, HG Wells>1895 Phra the Phoenician, Edwin L Arnold>1896 the Island of Dr Moreau, HG Wells>1897 Dracula, Bram Stoker>1897 the Invisible Man, HG Wells>1898 War of the Worlds, HG Wells.>1900 the Wizard of Oz, L Frank Baum>1901 Kim, Rudyard Kipling >1903 Call of the Wild, Jack London>1904 Peter Pan, JM Barrie>1905 Windsor McCay- Little Nemo in Slumberland >1905 Upton Sinclair - the Jungle>1905 Edwin L Arnold - Lt Gullivar Jones Vacation >1905 Baroness Orczy - Scarlet Pimpernel>1905 H Rider Haggard- Ayesha>1906 White Fang, Jack London>1906 Sir Nigel, Arthur Conan Doyle >1909 Phantom of the Opera, Gaston LeRoux>1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs- Princess of Mars>1912 Arthur Conan Doyle - the Lost World>1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs- Tarzan of the Apes>1913 Mystery of Fu Manchu, Sax Rohmer>1914 At the Earth's Core, Edgar Rice Burroughs>1917 Land that Time Forgot, Edgar Rice Burroughs>1919 Zorro, Johnston McCulley>Robert E Howard's Bran Mak Morn (1927), Solomon Kane (1928), Kull of Atlantis (1929), Conan the Cimmerian (1932)Not to mention Doc Savage and HP Lovecraft. I think Jules Verne, Victor Hugo, and Mary Shelley are a bit too early to count but I won't cause a fuss about it. What's your favourite?What am I desperately missing here?What are you trying to track down next? My top 5 authors are in order Haggard, Edwin L Arnold, Burroughs, Howard, and Wells but Kipling is very close. Looking forward to hunting for more. Also magazines count.
>>24942048Scaramouche
>>24942048Sorta sequel to King Solomon's Mines.The trio go back to African to hunt a mysterious lost civilization. When they find it it's ruled by two sisters, who both fall for the aristocrat chad of course. Civil war ensues.
I'm trying to get my hands on every HRH book so I've started cataloguing them. >Non FictionThe Last Boer War 1899>Allan Quatermain and Ayesha SeriesAllan & the Ice Gods 1927 AQ1 (Stone Age)Ancient Allan 1920 AQ2 (700BC)Wisdom's Daughter 1923 She1 (339BC Artaxerxes III) Marie 1912 AQ3 1830s (6th Xhosa War 1835)Allan's Wife 1889 AQ4d 1840sChild of Storm 1913 AQ5 1850s (2nd Zulu Civil War)Tale of Three Lions 1887 AQ4c 1858Maiwa's Revenge 1888 AQ6 1859Hunter Quatermain's Story 1885 AQ4a 1868Long Odds 1886 AQ4b 1869Holy Flower 1913 (Windsor) AQ7 1870Heu-heu (Rhodesia) 1924 AQ8 1871She and Allan 1923 AQ9 She2 1872Treasure of the Lake 1926 AQ10 1873 (East Africa)Ivory Child 1916 AQ11 1874Magepa the Buck (Pear's Annual) 1912 AQ12 1879Finished 1917 AQ13 1879 (Anglo Zulu War)King Solomon's Mines 1885 AQ14 1880 (Lubumbashi)She 1886 She3 1881Allan Quatermain 1887 AQ15 (1884 Maasai E Africa)Ayesha 1904 (Windsor) She4 (1899Tibet)>Historical Fantasy Fiction1889 Cleopatra (Pyolemaic Egypt)1890 The World's Desire (Odysseus 1200BC)1891 Eric Brighteyes (10thC Iceland)1893 Montezuma's Daughter (16thC Aztec, Cortes)1895 Heart of the World (Maya)1901 Lysbeth Tale of the Dutch (16thC William)1902 Pearl Maiden Fall of Jerusalem (70AD) (Pearson's Mag)1904 Brethren (1187 3rd Crusade, Saladin)1907 Fair Margaret (Henry VII late 15th in Spain)1909 Lady of Blossholme (1536 Pilgrimage of Grace)1910 Morning Star (Hyksos Egypt 12-15C BC)1911 Red Eve (1346 Edward III, Crecy)1914 Wanderer's Necklace (790AD Norse in Byzantium)1918 Moon of Israel (1200BC Amenmesse Exodus)1919 When the World Shook (Tahiti)1922 Virgin of the Sun (1380s Richard II, Eng to Inca)1925 Queen of the Dawn (Anc Egypt)1924 Belshazzar (6th BC Neo Babylon)>Modern African Adventure1892 Nada the Lily (1795 Chaka, Battle Italeni 1838)1894 People of the Mist (Tit-bits 1893)1896 The Wizard (South Central Africa)1896 Black Heart White Heart (Zulu)1899 Swallow Tale of the Great Trek (1836)1899 Elissa Doom of Zimbabwe 1906 Benita (Cassell's Mag 1905) (Transvaal)1908 Ghost Kings (1830s Zululand)1908 Yellow God Idol of Africa 1910 Queen Sheba's Ring (Central Africa)1929 Mary of Marion Isle
>>24942054>ScaramoucheHell yeah wonderful suggestion. The 1920s film is a treat, haven't read the book.
>>24942048<Pic attached> is just one Arthur retelling of course.>Upton Sinclair - The JungleThis isn't at all a rollicking adventure in the jungle. Nothing like the other titles.
>>24942048>>24942054>ScaramoucheIf you want that sort of thing then Captain Blood is another one (or pretty much anything by Sabatini).Or in a similar vein, <pic attached>. It's set about the turn of the century so you get swords but guns as well.Not strictly fantasy, but it is pretty mainstream swashbuckling adventure + chivalry.
>>24942072>Nothing like the other titles.That is true, but it's such an iconic book. I have also read Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt twice even though it's not an adventure tale it still has that pre-WW2 post-Victorian vibe. I suppose the Jungle is hardly even fiction so that would warrant it's exclusion, fair enough. >ZendaThank you for the rec. I will dig for it. Exactly what I'm looking for.
>>24942048https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_InvadedMaybe this? It's a collection of short stories from that period. I haven't read it personally so it may not be what you want.
>>24942062I'm this board's resident haggard fan and have read most of his books. Heavily reccomend red eve if you haven't read it already which IMO is his greatest work
>>24942048I read She on the recommendation of Jung, who averred that it contained the most accurate portrait of the Anima in fiction. But what struck me most was how funny it was, almost like a Carry On movie at times.
>she
>>24942071Book is even better. Great stuff
What's the best Hidden Continent yarn, /lit/
>>24942121Thank you for the rec that looks outstanding. There is also a similar "Before Armageddon" collected by Moorcock with short stories from the 1870s to 1900 as well it appears. Must hunt!
>>24942593Are they all worth reading? Or do they go downhill after a bit like the John Carter novels? I've read King Solomon's Mines and a bit of She but nothing else.
Riddle of the SandsBulldog DrummondThe Thirty-Nine Steps
There is also The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs which is a historical novel set in 13th-century England.
Salambô by Guy Flaubert1880s English translation by J.S. ChartresSword and Sandal.
>>24943288I remember enjoying Gulliver's Travels for this trope.
>>24943552Picked this up a couple weeks ago. One of the best standalone ERBs
The Ship of Ishtar by A. Merritt was always a favorite as well.
>>24943514The sequels to KSM and She, Allan Quartermain and Ayesha respectively, are worthy enough and definitely worth your time to read, with Ayesha respectively elaborating on the estoeric themes that she only hinted at. The rest of the Allan Quartermain books are good page-turners although you can tell they were written for money.Haggard's other Lost world Adventure stories are more of the same. Good page turners but lack the originality which made KSM and She really good although there are some ones that stand out like the Peopleof the mist.His historical stories are where he really shines though, and out of them Montezuma's daughter, Red Eve, Eric Brighteyes and the Brethren are probably my favourites. Red Eve in particular has a hellish supernatural weird fiction aspect that puts it one level above the others, his Viking novel eric brighteyes has some of it too.>>24943646DMR books published the definitive version of ship of ishtar last year and have recently done the same for the dwellers in the mirage with Meritt's original ending.
