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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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