The Best of Thrilling Adventures
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"One of the most neglected of the straight adventure pulp magazines of the 1930s was Standard Magazines' Thrilling Adventures." --from the introduction by Will Murray
This collection assembles--for the first time--the best adventure stories from the pages of this classic pulp fiction title. Over 600 pages in length and covering adventure, mystery, science fiction, and Foreign Legion stories. Plus: get every story of pulp adventure hero Larry Weston: a forgotten series from the pages of Thrilling Adventures. With an introduction by pulp historian Will Murray.
The Best of Thrilling Adventures contains the following stories:
- "Riley of the Bengal Lancers" by Lieut. Scott Morgan
- "Valley of Giants" by Jackson Cole
- "Brother of the Tong" by Lieut. Scott Morgan
- "Guerrilla Brand" by Jackson Cole
- "The Devil Fish" by Capt. Kerry McRoberts
- "Red Silver" by Jackson Cole
- "The Avenger of Lo Chang" by Lieut. Scott Morgan
- "Danger Trails" by Capt. Kerry McRoberts
- "Pyramid of Gold" by George Allan Moffatt
- "The Pearl of Death" by Lieut. Scott Morgan
- "The Terror of Siberia" by Lieut. Scott Morgan
- "Dogs of Shallajai" by Lieut. Scott Morgan
- "The Sultan of Hell" by Capt. Kerry McRoberts
- "Orchid of Doom" by Lieut. Scott Morgan
- "Lost Treasures of Eden" by Capt. John Powers
- "The Lagoon of Monsters" by Johnston McCulley
- "World of Doom" by Ray Cummings
- "The Web of the Green Spider" by Capt. Kerry McRoberts
- "Sublevel Sixteen" by Paul Ernst
- "The Curse of the Shining God" by A. Leslie
- "Hell's Oasis" by Arthur J. Burks
Paul Ernst
Paul Frederick Ernst (November 7, 1899 - September 21, 1985) was a pulp fiction writer from the United States. He is best known as the author of the first 24 "Avenger" novels, which were published by Street & Smith under the pen name Kenneth Robeson. Paul Ernst was born in the city of Akron, Ohio. reportedly "[took] up fiction writing in his early twenties". His writings, described as "a prolific manufacturer of potboilers-made-to-order," appeared in a number of early Science fiction and fantasy periodicals. His work appeared in Astounding Stories, Strange Tales, and Amazing, and he wrote the Doctor Satan series (8 stories in total) that ran in Weird Tales from 1935 to 1936. Between 1939 and 1942, he was most known for authoring the original 24 The Avenger stories for the namesake pulp magazine. When the work at pulp magazines dried up, Ernst "was able to make a painless transition into the more prestigious "slick" magazines, where his word skill earned him higher financial rewards." In 1971, he was "still active as a writer," having written "Blackout" for the July 1971 issue of Good Housekeeping magazine. In September 1985, he died in Pinellas County, Florida, at the age of 85.
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