Posted on 12/16/2011 4:32:57 PM PST by Perdogg
Three Sax Rohmer titles will return next year, plus a new novel by William Patrick Maynard "The Destiny of Fu Manchu". I guess 2012 can be called the year of the return of Fu Manchu.
ping
Nayland Smith Vs the Thuggees
Lotta man smoke...
but Fu Man Chu.....
Insrcuteable..............
Thought they might be regarded as too un-PC nowadays.
I’ve seen a couple of the early-talkie Fu Manchu films with Warner Oland, and the 1940 Republic serial, along with most of the 1960s British films. Yet I’ve never read any of the novels. I did once read a 1930s pulp reprint which featured a sort of Fu Manchu rip-off character, though. Can’t recall the name, but it was something like “Wu Sing.” Really grim, violent stuff, as I recall.
and Dr Petrie and the lovely Kâramanèh
The Mask of Fu Manchu with Boris Karloff as Fu Manchu borders on serious racism. But then again, it was 1932.
They will make him Gay, with a rice queen named Barney as his partner.
Can Mandrake the Magician be far behind?
You can get a bunch of them for FREE for your Kindle on Amazon:
yes, but will anyone ever reprint George Bronson-Howard’s Yorke Norroy spy novels?
Today GBH and his creation (Yorke Norroy) are forgotten. In his day, GBH was a REAL spy and diplomat who became a noted author, playwright and screewriter and director for silent films - before he committed suicide at age 38. What a damn shame.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0397313/
Still engrossing though.
No homosexuality in any of sax rohmer novels.
I agree.
You have forgotten about the gerbils.
Or you apparently havn’t read the entire tome.
They were rats and they did not enter Nayland Smith
Man, it will take me a week rummaging in my attic to refute you, so instead I defer.
I read a couple of them. Nayland would be better named Gayland. Too bad because ol’ Fu was a great villian. Pretty verbose writing, though. Edit down about 30% and butch up Nayland. Maybe Spielberg would be interested.
R.I.P Peter Sellers. You created the funniest scene in the history of film.
I have long imagined great potential in a return of Fu Manchu. In some ways he can be imagined as a near indestructible Dracula character, an immortal Vlad Tepis, with the descent of Nayland Smith as his Van Helsing clan opponents.
But a modern version of Fu Manchu, once again resurrected, can even be seen as a threat in the modern world. This is because while Fu Manchu is brilliant enough to grasp modern technology, he is contemptuous of it, because in his past he learned a thousand years of Imperial knowledge, forgotten to the rest of the world. He sees modern science and technology other than military weapons as just amusements of little value.
He despises modern China, and sees the Chinese as little more than expendable slaves, and he could very well restore Imperial China, in the blood of hundreds of millions, with himself as the Emperor, over a mind controlled nation of slaves, kowtowing before him.
This is a monster who uses horrible tortures like the Chinese water torture, and the Death of the Thousand Cuts, and whose drug addled followers worship as a god. They invade and kidnap entire cities to carry out his commands, and they are completely expendable.
But though he sees China as the world, he sees the rest of the world as worthy only of annihilation. And only the Smith family and the treachery of his own family stand in the way of his schemes.
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