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The Official Harold Lamb Site

Later Magazine Work

While some of this work was written by Lamb while he was still contributing to Adventure, the majority of it falls after that period of his life.

From the 1930s onward Lamb concentrated heavily on screenplays and his history books, but still published steadily in magazines, including Collier's, The Saturday Evening Post, National Geographic, and a handful of others.

All of the historical material from this period is being collected in the Bison anthologies.

Lamb's Collier's Writing

Lamb's work for Collier's is similar to his fiction for Adventure in that there are the exotic settings, the treachery, and even the action. The length, though, is shorter, perforce making the stories less involved. The biggest difference is that all of Lamb's Collier's tales involve romance. They are short pieces wherein valiant hero and maid come together despite their differences, as in "Wolf Meat" or escape a sultan's clutches, as in "Azadi's Jest." Taken one at a time I found the stories enjoyable, but they began to feel repetitious, something Lamb's Adventure fiction doesn't suffer.

Lamb strives to present different circumstances and situations for his hero and heroine to find each other, and even succeeds, but there is a sameness despite the differences.

Lamb's Work for The Saturday Evening Post

Between 1944 and 1957 Lamb published almost 30 pieces within The Saturday Evening Post. A number of these were articles. Others were short stories set in the contemporary east. A few were historical fiction, though unfortunately you have to wade through an awkward framing story to get to them. Despite this, one of them, Secret of Victory, is an exciting tale of Attila the Hun's incursion into Europe, two rival leaders who opposed him, and the Roman consul that had to keep them from killing each other instead of Attila.


Collier's

The Saturday Evening Post

1928

 

 

1944

 

Rec Cock Crows

June 9

 

Can the Arabs Unite?

July 1

1929

 

 

How Lebanon won its flag and Freedom

Aug. 5

Protection

Aug. 24

 

1945

 

1931

 

 

Middle East Explodes

Aug. 18

Night Bird Flies

July 25

 

1946

 

Home From Bethlehem

Dec. 19

 

Lowdown on Jonah

May 25

1932

 

 

Oracle by Hafiz

May 25

Wolf Meat

June 25

 

Snowbound Interlude

July 6

Rogue's Girl

Oct. 29

 

Major Meets an Enchantress

Sept. 21

Eighth Wife

Dec. 31

 

Witch Woman

Oct. 5

1933

 

 

1947

 

Where Love Comes First

April 15

 

Devil's Visit

Nov. 29

Way of the Girl

Aug. 12

 

1948

 

Azadi's Jest

Nov. 11

 

Biographical Sketch

March 6

1934

 

 

Lost City

April 17

Vampire of Khor

Jan. 6

 

Mysterious Knife

Oct. 16

Bear's Head

March 17

 

1949

 

Longsword

April 14

 

Live Target

March 26

At Alexander's Palace

April 21

 

1950

 

Behind the Veil

June 2

 

Onslaught of Terror

Jan. 28

Golden Empress

Oct. 6

 

Gallant Gesture

March 18

Watcher

Dec. 22

 

Lady and the Pirate

April 29

1936

 

 

1951

 

Hour of the Ghosts

Oct. 10

 

Admiral Declares War

Feb. 24

1937

 

 

Biographical Sketch

March 17

Devil's Song

April 10

 

Thief Trap

July 21

Wizard's Eye

May 1

 

1952

 

Money Changer

June 5

 

Amateur Spy

Jan. 12

Sleeping Lion

Nov. 27

 

Queen of the Mountains

Dec. 13

1938

 

 

1953

 

Devil's Current

July 30

 

Among the Missing

Feb. 7

Near Baghdad

August 13

 

Secret of Victory

March 14

1939

 

 

Mystery of the Middle East

March 21

Tiger, Tiger

April 22

 

1957

 

Singing Girl

June 24

 

Iron Curtain Incident

July 6

1941

 

 

Panic on Flight Nine

March 14

Knights with Wings

May 10

 

 

 

Empress' Yankee

Aug. 2

 

National Geographic

 

Bells of the Mountain

Sept. 13

 

 

 

Berserk

Dec. 13

 

Road of the Crusaders

Dec. '33

1942

 

 

Mountain Tribes of Iran and Iraq

March '46

Cossack Wolf

Feb. 28

 

Crusader Lands Revisited

Dec. '54

Stone Woman

Sept. 26

 

 

 

Elf Woman

Nov. 21

 

Blue Book

 

1943

 

 

 

 

City Under the Sea

Jan. 2

 

The Three Witnesses

Jan. '45

Black Road

Jan. 23

 

Lost River

June '49

St. Olaf's Day

Feb. 6

 

The Drub-Devil March

Dec. '49

Bolshaya, Room Three

March 20

 

 

 

Detour to Persepolis

May 8

 

Pictorial Review

 

Passage to Cathay

June 26

 

 

 

1944

 

 

Corsair's Raid

July '32

Two Swords of Genghis Khan

Feb. 5

 

Flower Girl

July '33

1946

 

 

 

 

Over the Hill to Cathay

Dec. 7

 

The Big Magazine

 

1949

 

 

 

 

Stolen Countess

April 16

 

Red Hands

March '35

Lionheart

March 28

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sat R Lit

 

Argosy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Portrait

May 4 '40

The Phantom Caravan

Jan. '44

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Women's H C

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anna Maria-Mary Ann

April '40

 

 

 


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