Talbot Mundy

And so there's that kind of, like, happening in the background that people are vaguely aware of.

And then there's a guy named Talbot Mundy that publishes a novel about nine men in India secretly guarding s- secretly guarding dangerous ancient knowledge and then also influencing human civilization.

Why they're in India, I can't say, but that's where they're at.

It's...

Unlike any of the other forms of science fantasy, human nature and philosophy form a companion for its marvelous happenings.

Foremost of its few contributors is the prolific Talbot Mundy, the best of whose writing reaches a classic level.

mundy's heroes are phenomenal they have the energy of youth and the dignity and experience of older men their knowledge of man and man's troubles fits them to combat the dark wizards king of the khyber rifles and the devil's guard are fine science fantasy novels but best of all is Cotswold Omni, disguised as an Indian holy, falls in with the most remarkable pair of Tibetans imaginable.

The book leaves nothing to be desired.

They include tales such as Sax Roemer's She Who Sleeps, a novel in which an Egyptian mummy is miraculously restored to life until a hoax is explained in the final chapter.

Robert W. Chambers' The Hidden Children is primarily a historical novel, but there are certain small supernatural events contained that have opened it up to the field.

The historical trilogy built on the fabulous character of Tros of Semothrace by Talbot Mundy falls in the same category.

They are sprinkled with tiny supernatural events without apparent effect upon the story.