THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

 While glancing through issues of Eclipse's 1980s AIRBOY comics-- all of which I reviewed in 2019 -- I realized that I'd never seen ...

  Though I'm a fan of (and maybe an apologist for) Sax Rohmer's works, I'd never visited either of the two "Yellow Peril pu...

 Response designed for a forum-post, context implicit. ____________ Because you and another poster raised the spectre of influence between t...

 SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS I probably read THE GREEN EYES OF BAST some thirty or more years ago, thanks in large part to a series of Pyrami...

Before his passing, Cay Van Ash published this sequel to his Fu Manchu pastiche TEN YEARS BEYOND BAKER STREET . Van Ash began work on a seco...

  Over a decade after Cay Van Ash, former secretary to Sax Rohmer, completed the only book-length Rohmer biography , he published this work,...

 On THE TOM BREVOORT EXPERIENCE, the question was raised as to why Atlas Comics had published four issues of THE YELLOW CLAW in 1956, and wh...

  In  my review of DAUGHTER OF FU MANCHU , I quoted Wikipedia's "Sax Rohmer" essay, which alleged that Rohmer's novel THE ...

  At the end of my review of THE GOLDEN SCORPION , I idly wondered as to whether Sax Rohmer might have meant to do something else with Fu Ma...

  In my review of Rohmer's 1931 novel  DAUGHTER OF FU MANCHU , I quoted a Wikipedia article about the fourteen-year gap between that nov...

Though I've read two of the four Sax Rohmer detective novels starring Gaston Max, I'd never got round to the work in which he debute...

  It’s interesting to reflect on what factors might have led Robert E. Howard, fairly early in his writing-career, to pastiche the Fu Manc...

Given that this year I finished re-reading and reviewing all of Sax Rohmer’s “Fu Manchu” stories, I decided I might as wel...

In my reviews of the Fu Manchu series, I’ve largely avoided references to the life of Sax Rohmer. But it’s well night impossible not t...