Talbot Mundy

Talbot Mundy was an English-born American writer of adventure fiction. Based for most of his life in the United States, he also wrote under the pseudonym of Walter Galt. During Mundy's career his work was often compared with that of his more commercially successful contemporaries, H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling, although unlike their work his adopted an anti-colonialist stance and expressed a positive interest in Asian religion and philosophy. His work has been cited as an influence on a variety of later science-fiction and fantasy writers.

Stories Included

This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories:

The Soul Of A Regiment

The Pillar Of Light

The Lady and the Lord

Kitty Bruns Her Fingers

The Mystic India Speaks

The Real Red Root

The Hermit and the Tiger