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Talbot Mundy (born William Lancaster Gribbon) (April 23, 1879 — August 5, 1940) was an English writer. He also wrote under the pseudonym Walter Galt.
Born in London, at age 16 he ran away from home and began an odyssey in India, Africa, and other parts of the Near and Far East. By age 29, he had begun using the name Talbot Mundy, and a year later arrived in the United States, starting his writing career in 1911.
His first published work was the short story "Pig-Sticking in India", which describes a popular, though now outlawed, sport practiced by British forces. Mundy went on to become a regular contributor to the pulp magazines, especially Adventure and Argosy.
Many of his novels, including his first novel Rung Ho!, and his most famous work King of the Khyber Rifles, are set in India under British Occupation in which the loyal British officers encounter ancient Indian mysticism. The novels portray the citizens of Imperial India as enigmatic, romantic and powerful. His British characters have many encounters with the mysterious Thugee Cults. The long buildup to the introduction of his Indian Princess Yasmini and the scenes among the outlaws in the Khinjan Caves clearly influenced fantasy writers Robert E. Howard and Leigh Brackett. Other science-fiction and fantasy writers who cited Mundy as an influence included Robert A. Heinlein, E. Hoffmann Price, Fritz Leiber, Andre Norton, H. Warner Munn, Marion Zimmer Bradley andDaniel Easterman. James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon was partly inspired by Mundy's work.
His related Jim Grim series, which has mystical overtones and part of which is available over the web from theosophical sites, ran in Adventure magazine before book publication. Mundy was associated with Theosophy's movement, a friend of Katherine Tingley.
Beginning in the late 1920s Mundy wrote a number of stories about Tros of Samothrace, a Greek freedom fighter who aided Britons and Druids in their fight against Julius Caesar.
- Donald M. Grant (compiler), Messenger of Destiny (Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc., 1983)
- Brian Taves, Talbot Mundy, Philosopher of Adventure (McFarland, 2005)
- Brian Taves (editor) Talbot Mundy, Winds From the East (Ariel Press, 2006) (an anthology of Mundy short stories and articles)
Jimgrim/Ramsden
- Guns of the Gods (1921)
- The Winds of the World (1917)
- Hira Singh's Tale (1918)
- King of the Khyber Rifles (1916)
- Jimgrim and Allah's Peace (1936)
- The Seventeen Thieves of El-Kalil (1935)
- The Lion of Petra (1932)
- The Woman Ayisha (1924)
- The Lost Trooper
- The King in Check (variant title Affair in Araby,1933)
- The Mystery of Khufu's Tomb (1935)
- The Caves of Terror (variant title The Gray Mahatma, 1924)
- Jungle Jest (1932)
- The Marriage of Meldrum Strange
- Om: The Secret of Ahbor Valley (1924)
- The Hundred Days (1931)
- The Nine Unknown (1923)
- The Devil's Guard (variant title Ramsden, 1926)
- Jimgrim (1931)
- The Gunga Sahib (1934)
- C.I.D. (1932)
- The Red Flame of Erinpura (1934)
- Jimgrim, Moses, and Mrs. Aintree (first book publication of 1922 magazine story, 2008)
Tros
- Tros of Samothrace (1925)
- Queen Cleopatra (1929)
- Purple Pirate (1935)
Lobsang Pun
- The Thunder Dragon Gate (1937)
- Old Ugly Face (1940)
Non-series
- Rung Ho! (1914)
- The Ivory Trail (1917)
- The Eye of Zeitoon (1920)
- Told in the East (Short Stories, 1920)
- Her Reputation (1923)
- The Soul of a Regiment (Chapbook Reprint of Short story, 1924)
- Cock o' the North (1929) (variant title Gup Bahadur, 1929, UK)
- Black Light (1930)
- W. H.: A portion of the record of Sir William Halifax (1931) (variant title The Queen's Warrant, 1953, US)
- When Trails Were New (1932)
- Caesar Dies (1934)
- All Four Winds: Four Novels of India (omnibus, 1932)
- Full Moon (variant title, There Was a Door, 1935)
- Romances of India (omnibus, 1936)
- East and West (variant title Diamonds See in the Dark, 1935)
- The Valiant View (Short Stories, 1939)
- Winds from the East:A Talbot Mundy Reader (Fiction,Poems and Non-Fiction,2006)
