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Reviews of the books and stories by Sax Rohmer and Cay Van Ash.



"Imagine a person tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull and long magnetic eyes of the true cat-green.


"Invest him with all the cunning of an entire Eastern race accumulated in one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present. Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr Fu Manchu" - Classic prose poetry from Sir Denis Nayland Smith.

ALSO - The great 1940 Republic serial DRUMS OF FU MANCHU, reviewed over on our CLIFFHANGERS page

CONTENTS

Page One
THE INSIDIOUS DR FU MANCHU (1913)
THE RETURN OF DR FU MANCHU (1916)
THE YELLOW CLAW (1916)
THE HAND OF FU MANCHU (1917)
Page Two
DAUGHTER OF FU MANCHU (1931)
THE MASK OF FU MANCHU (1932)
THE BRIDE OF FU MANCHU (1933)
THE TRAIL OF FU MANCHU (1934)
PRESIDENT FU MANCHU (1936)
Page Three
THE DRUMS OF FU MANCHU (1939)
THE ISLAND OF FU MANCHU (1940)
THE SHADOW OF FU MANCHU (1948)
THE WRATH OF FU MANCHU (1952)
Page Four
RE-ENTER FU MANCHU (1957)
"The Eyes of Fu Manchu" (1958)
"The Word of Fu Manchu" (1957)
"The Mind of Fu Manchu" (1959)
EMPEROR FU MANCHU (1959)
Cay Van Ash
TEN YEARS BEYOND BAKER STREET (1984)
THE FIRES OF FU MANCHU (1988)
Sumuru
NUDE IN MINK (1950)
SUMURU (1951)
THE FIRE GODDESS (1952)
RETURN OF SUMURU (1954)
SINISTER MADONNA (1956)

SPECIAL ADDED TREAT
(if you want to call it that....)

Mummy of Seti I (ewww...)

After reading so many times how Fu Manchu reminded Petrie or Nayland Smith of the mummified head of the Pharaoh Seti I in the British Museum, I think it's time we check it out.

Actually, Seti would not be a bad choice to model a portrait of Fu Manchu on. The strong chin, the high cheekbones, the prominent nose... but if the mummy opens its lids and has long, burning eyes of the true cat-like green.... I'm going through the door without opening it!

Reviews only © 2001 - 2009 by Dr Hermes [Edward Felipe]. Photo illustrations © their respective holders, and no infringement of copyright is intended or should be inferred. Photos are from MGM's 1932 MASK OF FU MANCHU, Republic's 1940 serial DRUMS OF FU MANCHU and one or two from Hammer's 1965 FACE OF FU MANCHU. Hurry, Petrie! Pray God we are not too late!