Sax Rohmer - Further Reading

Further Reading

  • Briney, Robert E."Chronological Bibliography of the Works of Sax Rohmer". In Francis M. Nevins (ed), The Mystery Writer's Art, London: Tom Stacey 1971, as an appendix to "Sax Rohmer: An Informal Survey" by Briney. A slightly altered bversion of the checklist appear in Master of Villainy - see Van Ash and Rohmer below.
  • Colombo, John Robert. "Sax Rohmer and His Yellow Shadows," The Tamarack Review journal (Autumn 1960), No. 17, 43-57. This essay discusses the man and his accomplishment the year following his death.
  • Day, Bradford M. Sax Rohmer: A Bibliography Denver, NY: Science Fiction and Fantasy Publications, 1963. Includes information ob book editions and magazine appeararances. Reprinted within Bradford M. Day,Bibliography of Adventure NY: Arno Press, 1978. (The reprint is slightly revised but is not updated beyond 1963). Both versions have some inaccuracies but are useful for the listings on Rohmer's magazine appearances.
  • Enright, D.J. "Introduction" to The Mystery of Dr Fu Manchu. London: Everyman, 1985. Overview of the Fu Manchu work.
  • Huang, Yunte. Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. Chapter 15 ("Fu Manchu"), 136-44, considers the Yellow Menace. Chapter 28 ("The Fu Manchurian Candidate"), 268-77, traces the influence of Rohmer's President Fu Manchu on Richard Condon's influential novel The Manchurian Candidate.
  • Lane, Andrew. "The Crimes of Fu Manchu". Million magazine (May-June 1991), 41-44. Overview, with a useful "Fu Manchu Chronology".
  • Scapperotti, Dan Memories of Fu Manchu. Starlog (Jan 1987), 60-64. Article about Henry Brandon, the actor who played Fu Manchu in the Republic Pictures serial Drums of Fu Manchu.
  • Cay Van Ash and Elizabeth Sax Rohmer. Master of Villainy, London: Tom Stacey, 1972. The only full-length biography. Originally intended as a collaboration by Rohmer and his wife, the book draws on a series of articles titled "Pipe Dreams" written by Rohmer as early as 1918, as well anecdotes and memories of Rohmer's wife. Robert E. Briney annotated the text. Includes Robert E. Briney, "Chronological Bibliography of the Books of Sax Rohmer" (see pp 299-305), which supersedes that of Day in Bibliography of Adventure (1970)

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