Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Megalomaniac with a Mustache

My column this week for Kirkus Reviews looks at Titan Books’ ambitious plan to bring all 13 of Sax Rohmer’s classic Dr. Fu-Manchu novels (plus an anthology of Fu-Manchu short stories) back into print, in handsome trade paperback editions. You’ll find the piece here.

1 comment:

Les Blatt said...

I will confess to having a weakness for all the Fu Manchu books ever since my junior high school days (when they were, of course, painted on cave walls). Is the "yellow peril" nonsense embarrassing and anachronistic? Sure. Are the stories great thrillers? Yes. I have them all, I think, in multi-novel anthologies published in Britain in the late 1990s...but may have to indulge myself by getting these new editions. Sigh. This is going to be expensive, isn't it...