The Masters of Adventure anthology: GW Thomas reprints the great writers of old
Saturday, April 17, 2010
posted by Miguel Martins
Friend of The Cimmerian G.W. Thomas is publishing Masters of Adventure, a public domain anthology. It is fully illustrated by M. D. Jackson and the multi-talented Mr. Thomas himself.
The title isn’t exaggerated since the line-up is simply incredible, as you can see for yourselves in the table of contents. I think that ‘Grandmasters of Adventure’ would not have been a too strong a superlative.
“Ms. Found in a Bottle” by Edgar Allan Poe
“Smith and the Pharaohs” by H. Rider Haggard
“The Brazilian Cat” by A. Conan Doyle
“The Grove of Astaroth” by John Buchan
“Tarzan Rescues the Moon” by Edgar Rice Burroughs
“A Thousand Deaths” by Jack London
“A Tropical Horror” by William Hope Hodgson
“The Breath of Allah” by Sax Rohmer
“The People of the Pit” by A. Merritt
“Wings in the Night” by Robert E. Howard
This anthology was announced in November 2008 by Mr Thomas. It is a true pleasure to finally see its release.
The Robert E. Howard tale contained in the anthology is “Wings in the Night,” one of his Solomon Kane yarns recounting the gory fight of the iron-willed Puritan from Devonshire against the horrible, bat-winged akaanas.
*The wraparound cover featured at the top of this blog entry is by M. D. Jackson, while the following illo for an A. Merrit’s story was done by G. W. Thomas.
