The Big Book of Adventure Stories

A hair-raising collection of adventure stories that's so big and enthralling if you open it you may never be seen again: enter at your own risk. Everyone loves adventure, and Otto Penzler has collected the best adventure stories of all time into one mammoth volume. With stories by Jack London, O. Henry, H. Rider Haggard, Alastair MacLean, Talbot Mundy, Cornell Woolrich, and many others, this wide-reaching and fascinating volume contains some of the best characters from the most thrilling adventure tales, including The Cisco Kid; Sheena, Queen of the Jungle; Bulldog Drummond; Tarzan; The Scarlet Pimpernel; Conan the Barbarian; Hopalong Cassidy; King Kong; Zorro; and The Spider. Divided into sections that embody the greatest themes of the genre-Sword & Sorcery, Megalomania Rules, Man vs. Nature, Island Paradise, Sand and Sun, Something Feels Funny, Go West Young Man, Future Shock, I Spy, Yellow Peril, In Darkest Africa-it is destined to be the greatest collection of adventure stories ever compiled. Featuring: Lawless open seas Ferocious army ants Deadeyed gunmen Exotic desert islands Feverish jungle adventures Including: The story that introduced The Cisco Kid The complete novel of Tarzan the Terrible

Edited with an Introduction by Otto Penzler

SWORD AND SORCERY The Golden Snare Farnham Bishop and Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur The Devil in Iron Robert E. Howard The Mighty Manslayer Harold Lamb The Seven Black Priests Fritz Leiber   MEGALOMANIA RULES The Master Magician Loring Brent The Most Dangerous Game Richard Connell The Man Who Would be King Rudyard Kipling The Wings of Kali Grant Stockbridge   MAN VS. NATURE The White Silence Jack London Sredni Vashtar Saki The Seed from the Sepulcher Clark Ashton Smith Leiningen versus the Ants Carl Stephenson The Sea Raiders H. G. Wells   ISLAND PARADISE Hell Cay Lester Dent Off the Mangrove Coast Louis L’Amour The Golden Anaconda Elmer Brown Mason Shanghai Jim Frank L. Packard The Python Pit George F. Worts   SAND AND SUN The Soul of a Turk Achmed Abdullah Peace Waits at Marokee H. Bedford-Jones Nor Idolatry Blind the Eye Gabriel Hunt The Soul of a Regiment Talbot Mundy Snake-Head Theodore Roscoe Suicide Patrol Georges Surdez A Gentleman of Color P. C. Wren   SOMETHING FEELS FUNNY After King Kong Fell Philip Jose Farmer Moonlight Sonata Alexander Woollcott   GO WEST, YOUNG MAN The Caballero’s Way O. Henry Zorro Deals with Treason Johnston McCulley Hopalong’s Hop Clarence E. Mulford   FUTURE SHOCK The Girl in the Golden Atom Ray Cummings To Serve Man Damon Knight Armageddon—2419 A. D. Philip Francis Nowlan   I SPY Woman in Love Geoffrey Household MacHinery and the Cauliflowers Alistair MacLean Wheels Within Wheels H. C. McNeile A Question of Passports Baroness Orczy Intelligence Rafael Sabatini   YELLOW PERIL The Copper Bowl George Fielding Eliot The Hand of the Mandarin Quong Sax Rohmer   IN DARKEST AFRICA The Green Wildebeest John Buchan The Slave Brand of Slegman Bin Ali James Anson Buck Fire L. Patrick Greene Hunter Quatermain’s Story H. Rider Haggard Bosambo of Monrovia Edgar Wallace Black Cargo Cornell Woolrich Tarzan the Terrible Edgar Rice Burroughs