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  Sax Rohmer
Sax Rohmer was born Arthur Henry Ward in Birmingham of Irish parents.
Rohmer adopted the name Sarsfield at the age of 18, impressed by his mother's alcoholic claims being descended from a famous 17th-century Irish general Patrick Sarsfield.
Rohmer's supernatural stories include Brood of the Witch Queen (1918), in which an Egyptian mummy is revived to practice ancient sorcery in the modern world, and Grey Face (1924), in which a supposed reincarnation of Cagliostro causes much havoc.
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 LitWeb.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Young Sax Rohmer received no formal schooling until he was nine or ten years old, but his father taught his son to read.
Rose believed she was psychic and Rohmer himself seemed to attract metaphysical phenomena - according to one story he and his wife consulted a ouija board asking it the best method whereby Rhomer might make a successful living.
Sax Rohmer died from a combination of pneumonia and a stroke on June 1, 1959.
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 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Agent provocateur
Rohmer is a devout Catholic and the film's moral, should one be inclined to find anything so reductive in an Eric Rohmer film, is that self-restraint is the path to salvation.
Rohmer says many of his films consist of a "story that deals less with what people do than with what is going on in their heads while they are doing it".
Rohmer's scenario for Triple Agent was inspired by an enigmatic story he found in a historical journal about the abduction by the Soviets of a White Russian general called General Miller, the president of the Russian War Veterans.
www.guardian.co.uk /g2/story/0,3604,1335850,00.html   (1318 words)

  
 Alibris: Sax Rohmer
Rohmer, born Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward, who wrote also as Michael Furey, was a prolific English mystery writer, best known for the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu and his opponents Denis Nayland Smith, Dr. Petrie, named after the Egyptologist Flinders Petrie, and the beautiful Karamaneh, the source of Petrie's daydreams.
Hot on the trail are two of Sax Rohmer's greatest detectives, Gaston Max and Inspector Dunbar, as they undertake a case that threatens to destroy the cream of...
Rohmer (Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward) was a prolific English mystery writer, best known for the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu and his opponents Denis Nayland Smith, Dr. Petrie, named after the Egyptologist Flinders Petrie, and the beautiful Karamaneh, the source of Petrie's daydreams.
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 Sax Rohmer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (February 15, 1883 - June 1, 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist.
The Fu Manchu stories, together with those featuring Gaston Max or Morris Klaw, made Rohmer one of the most successful and well-paid writers in of the 1920s and 1930s.
But Rohmer was very poor at handling his wealth.
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 Fictionwise eBooks: Sax Rohmer
Bio: Sax Rohmer (1883-1959) is best known as the creator of Dr. Fu Manchu, the super-villain who typified the "yellow menace" as popularized at the turn of the 19th century into the 1930s.
Rohmer is also noted for such early fantasy novels as "The Quest of the Sacred Slipper" and such occult detective novels as "The Dream Detective." His influence on fantasy, horror, and mystery are still felt today.
Follow the trail with Sax Rohmer's famous detectives Gaston Max and Inspector Dunbar as they chase the international gang of hoodlums and their leader, the evil Dr. King.
www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/SaxRohmereBooks.htm   (939 words)

  
 Newport Vintage Books - Mystery Dustjackets - Sax Rohmer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Fu Manchu, that fascinating arch villain whose machinations have lead thousands of breathless readers through the maazes of Sax Rohmer's thrilling tales of Limehouse, has a daughter who is as alluring and evil as her sire.
Sax Rohmer paints an unforgettable picture of this life in his story -- "Dope" which is based upon actual conditions as they existed in London.
Never has Sax Rohmer written a mystery novel that is more spine chilling than this tale of an ancient power of evil that lived today.
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 Sax Rohmer
Rohmer wrote comedy sketches for entertainers, and continued to produce stories and serials for the newspaper and magazine markets.
Rohmer's supernatural stories include BROOD OF THE WITCH QUEEN (1918), in which an Egyptian mummy is revived to practise ancient sorcery in the modern world, and GREY FACE (1924), in which a supposed reincarnation of Cagliostro causes much havoc.
Sax Rohmer's work received in the 1920s mixed reviews: Fu-Manchu, kauhujen mies (The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu, 1923): "Horror story, written quite skilfully." Kuolleista noussut tri Fu-Mnchu (The Devil Doctor, 1925): "Adventure stories about the strange Dr. Fu-Manchu have been translated into Finnish before.
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 Golden Scorpion, The at Audiobooks Online - Cassette, CD, MP3 audio books
Follow the adventures of Sax Rohmer's famous detectives Gaston Max and Inspector Dunbar on the trail of the Golden Scorpion.
Sax Rohmer was born in 1883 as Arthur Henry Ward in Birmingham, England of Irish parents.
Rohmer, impressed by his mother's claims that he was a descendent of the famous 17th-century Irish general Patrick Sarsfield, adopted the name Sarsfield.
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 Fire-Tongue - Sax Rohmer - Mobipocket eBooks
Rohmer decided to describe a seemingly impossible murder and then solve it as he continued to write.
Sax travelled to New York and holed up in a hotel to try and find a solution.
Unbelievably, he was visited by Harry Houdini who had underlined one sentence and told Rohmer how to explain the murder.
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 Weird Menace Pulps and Supernatural Detection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sax Rohmer's The Dream-Detective was published in book form in 1920, but the stories apparently started appearing in magazines in 1913.
Rohmer's detective Morris Klaw is an aged psychic; he is assisted by his beautiful and fascinating daughter, Isis.
The limiting factor in Rohmer's tales is the lack of real mystery, any sort of ingenuity that would puzzle readers.
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 Catalog: Rohmer & Orientalia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This was the first Bookfinger title, inaugurating the Sax Rohmer Society active through the '70s.
Massively cynical occult mystery, one of Elizabeth Rohmer's favorites among her husband's books; she said he wrote it strictly from artistic devotion to the story, rather than for market.
Hard to find in the UK edition because it was published during a slump in Rohmer's popularity & few copies made it into the world.
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 Sax Rohmer
Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward, better known as Sax Rohmer, used this feeling of unease melded with the idea of a mysterious overlord in the creation of Fu Manchu.
A megalomania, Fu Manchu's ultimate aim was to conquer the world in the name of China.
Sax Rohmer was born in 1883 to a hard-working father and an alcoholic mother.
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 Sax Rohmer - TheBestLinks.com - February 15, Fu Manchu, June 1, Novelist, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sax Rohmer - TheBestLinks.com - February 15, Fu Manchu, June 1, Novelist,...
Sax Rohmer, February 15, Fu Manchu, June 1, Novelist, Project Gutenberg, World...
It was a immediate success with its pacy and racist story of Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie facing the worldwide conspiracy of the 'Yellow Peril'.
www.thebestlinks.com /Sax_Rohmer.html   (359 words)

  
 Arts Literature Authors R Rohmer, Sax   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Fu Manchu - Sax Rohmer - Some scans of book covers, movie posters and stills, and excerpts.
Sax Rohmer - Biography, further reading, selected works.
Sax Rohmer (1883-1959) - Profile, works, e-texts, background.
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 Amazon.com: Books: The Fu-Manchu Omnibus: The Mystery of Dr Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor, the Si-Fan Mysteries (Fu ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Fu Manchu Omnibus, Volume 5 (Fu Manchu Omnibus) by Sax Rohmer
Sax Rohmer wrote the Fu Manchu stories between 1912 and the late 1950s.
From a chronological standpoint, then, but also thematically, Rohmer serves as a literary bridge between Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories and Ian Fleming's James Bond.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0749002719?v=glance   (586 words)

  
 A Guide to Magic, Witchcraft, and the Paranormal; The Romance of Sorcery; Sax Rohmer
Widely known as the author of the popular Fu Manchu books, he was also a dedicated scholar of the occult and an adept in the mystic arts.
Rohmer aims to bridge the gulf that has opened as a result of modernity between revealed religion and the ancient truths that need to be sought anew.
The late Sax Rohmer was the author of the popular Fu Manchu books, many of which were made into films.
www.columbia.edu /cu/cup/catalog/data/071030/0710307349.HTM   (239 words)

  
 The Orbital White House Curiosa Shop - Sax Rohmer
Sax Rohmer, aka British journalist Arthur Sarsfield Ward, invented literature's most devillish arch-fiend when he introduced the deliciously sinister Dr.
What's more, when nearing the age of 70 he even exposed our unsuspecting world to a female counterpart of the devil doctor.
BTW - There does exist a singularily good web site for all things Rohmer and Fu-Manchu.
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 eBay - sax rohmer, Antiquarian Collectible, Fiction Books items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Daughter of Fu Manchu Sax Rohmer 1931 HC VF+ 
2 Sax Rohmer - Hangover House / Sumuru 1951 
VINTAGE 1942 SAX ROHMER THE ISLAND OF FU MANCHU HB 
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One of the seminal and main practitioners of the venerable Evil-Genius-Attempts-to-Conquer-the-Planet school of escapist fiction was Sax Rohmer, a.k.a.
In this case, the villain is the misshapen dwarf known as Anubis, who plots to wipe out most of the earth's population with a sonic radio wave generator and establish a Utopian society with his cult of devoted death-worshippers after the devastation is inflicted (the fiend!).
Although Rohmer's writing is perpetually hampered by a narrow stylistic range and wooden characterizations, he nevertheless possesses a certain skill for devising grotesque super-scientific wonders.
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 The Fu Manchu Omnibus:Rohmer, Sax:0749002220:eCampus.com
Since 1913, Sax Rohmer's tales of the sinister Dr Fu Manchu and his arch enemy Nayland Smith have delighted readers and cinema-goers alike.
Now available for the first time as a complete set, the Fu Manchu mysteries are timeless classics with Rohmer's characteristic blend of adventure, mystery and exoticism.
If you've not yet encountered the Yellow Peril, or if your memory needs refreshing, now is the time to fall under his spell...
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 Sax_rohmer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
FINAL AND FUN FOOTNOTES OF FU : "The Wrath of Fu Manchu" is the 14th and final book in Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu series.
I refer here to the original DAW publication of 1976, which included four short stories dealing with the good doctor, as well as some other Sax Rohmer stories not related to the series but interesting in their own right...
One way to gauge a story is by the force of antagonism raised against the hero...
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 TomFolio.com: The Green Eyes of Bast by Sax   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Rohmer, Sax Green Eyes of Bast Publisher: A. Burt Co. New York 1920.
Rohmer, Sax THE GREEN EYES OF BAST Publisher: New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1920.
Rohmer, Sax Green Eyes Of Bast Publisher: Pyramid Books 1971.
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 Sax Rohmer (1886-1959)
His early success with short stories led to his writing The sins of Severac Babylon, a serial that appeared in Cassell’s Magazine in 1912 under his new pseudonym, Sax Rohmer.
Although his writing shows imagination, the simple colourful style, the rather repetitive plots and the stylized characters led to his work being dismissed as second-rate.
Project Gutenburg has a selection of complete Sax Rohmer novels available for download in plain text format, including The yellow claw and The return of Dr. Fu-Manchu.
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 Hypnosis in Media: The Fu Manchu series by Sax Rohmer (Fiction)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hypnosis in Media: the Fu Manchu series by Sax Rohmer (Fiction)
The Fu Manchu novels: the former Chinese mandarin, Fu Manchu, was part of (and possibly master of) a secretive Oriental organization dedicated to conquering the world, supported by a host of nefarious Middle Eastern and Oriental criminal organizations.
Also check out The Page of Fu Manchu by Lawrence Knapp, a worthwhile and professional accounting of the malign Mandarin's appearances.
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 Master of Villainy: A Biography of Sax Rohmer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Master of Villainy was an entertaining biography of Sax Rohmer, the serial author whose most famous creation is the fictional crime lord Fu Manchu.
Van Ash began his writing career under the tutilage of Sax Rohmer, who coached him in tweaking his stories and submitting them.
This puts Van Ash in a unique perspective to write a biograhy of Rohmer.
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 The Yellow Claw by Sax Rohmer, ISBN 1400150051 And The Last Rainbow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Yellow Claw by Sax Rohmer, ISBN 1400150051 And The Last Rainbow

Follow the trail with Sax Rohmer's famous detectives Gaston Max and Inspector Dunbar as they chase the international gang of hoodlums and their leader, the evil Dr. King.
Starved for the light, those who survive seek shelter in solitude and hallucinate conspiracy theories as the days meld into one another.
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 Amazon.com: Books: The Hand of Fu-Manchu: Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Evil Doctor (New ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu (New Millennium Library) by Sax Rohmer
The Fu-Manchu Omnibus: The Mystery of Dr Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor, the Si-Fan Mysteries (Fu Manchu Omnibus) by Sax Rohmer
stories by English writer Sax Rohmer, aka Henry Sarsfield Ward (1883-1959), begins with the villain already dead.
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 Amazon.com: sedeni zShop / Books / Sax Rohmer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Shadow of Fu Manchu [Hardcover] by Rohmer, Sax -- Used - Acceptable $17.50
Sax Rohmer: Sand and Satin (Sumuru story) HB/No DJ 1978 Lim...
Sax Rohmer: Wulfheim HB/No DJ Bookfinger 1972 -- Price: $19.50
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