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Scathach80		#21	[-]
Mar 29 11 7:00 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Buck Rogers (Armageddon 2149 A.D.)
Scathach80		#22	[-]
Apr 7 11 5:40 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	http://monsterkidclassich...rum.yuku.com/topic/37105 Big Book of Adventure Stories coming soon They reprinted a Simon Templar story in an earlier collection, as well as a Race Williams tale.
Scathach80		#23	[-]
Jun 15 11 5:37 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	http://www.amazon.com/Gre...ony-Thomas/dp/B000VZVY9K pertinent book The Mark of Zorro (1920) Don Juan (1926) The General (1926) Wings (1927) Treasure Island (1934) The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) Tarzan and His Mate (1934) The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) The Call of the Wild (1935) The Crusades (1935) The Last of the Mohicans (1936) Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) Gunga Din (1939) The Four Feathers (1939) Beau Geste (1939) Northwest Passage (1940) The Sea Hawk (1940) 49th Parallel (1941) The Jungle Book (1942) Henry V (1944) Scott of the Antarctic (1948) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Captain from Castile (1947) The Flame and the Arrow (1950) King Solomon's Mines (1950) Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951) The African Queen (1951) Ivanhoe (1952) Scaramouche (1952) The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1954) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) The Court Jester (1956) Around the World in 80 Days (1956) War and Peace (1956) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) The Magnificent Seven (1960) Swiss Family Robinson (1960) The Sundowners (1960) Ride the High Country (1961) El Cid (1961) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) The Great Escape (1963) Zulu (1964) The Naked Prey (1966) The Professionals (1966) The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
Scathach80		#24	[-]
Sep 29 11 7:13 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Some of Maurice LeBlanc's Lupin novels and anthologies might count. As with Sherlock Holmes, some of the Lupin stories fit as/much more into the adventure genre.
Scathach80		#25	[-]
Oct 16 11 3:11 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I decided to draw up a list of neo-classic adventure novels. For neo-classic adventure novels, they will have come out roughly mid-1938. Why after about 1938? This serves as a dividing line in that Superman and Zatara debuted in Action Comics#1 in 1938. Superman prefigures how extraterrestrials would increasingly figure as protagonists in media franchises in later decades, while Zatara (an imitation of Mandrake, of course) prefigures Harry Potter. Jason Bourne by Robert Ludlum (1980) Steve Austin by Martin Caidin (c. 1972) John Shaft (1970) Matt Helm by Donald Hamilton (1960) Joe Leland by Roderick Thorp (1966) Paul Benjamin by Brian Garfield (Death Wish) (1972) Jack Ryan by Tom Clancy (1984) Virgil Tibbs Coffin Ed and the Gravedigger These two came out a tad recently, so I will set them aside. The 1990's and the turn of the century preceding the 2010's will not have the feel of halcyon days for too many of us. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling (1996) Dexter Morgan by Jeff Lyndsey (2004) Some of these do not quite go beyond urban thriller, of course. The same would apply to some of Spillane's work. Exclusions for now: Regarding Rambo, Rambo actually started as horror in the 1972 novel First Blood. Appropriately enough for a horror novel, the title featured the word "Blood" in it. I remain hesitant to include Anita Blake or Necroscope by Brian Lumley or Elric or Nightwatch. Perhaps book sales might persuade me. David Morrell's book The 100 Must Read Thrillers may have other suggestions. Last Edited By: Scathach80 Oct 16 11 3:31 PM. Edited 6 times.
Scathach80		#26	[-]
Oct 23 11 10:41 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Some Karl May novels might count. To broaden matters beyond the Occident, Wuxia novels might have some classic status.
Scathach80		#27	[-]
Oct 23 11 11:26 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I suppose Rocambole and Biggles might merit some mention, as well William Colt MacDonald's Three Mesquiteers and the Duc de Richlieu by Dennis Wheatley. Last Edited By: Scathach80 Oct 23 11 11:30 AM. Edited 1 times.
Scathach80		#28	[-]
Oct 27 11 6:23 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Perhaps Albert Campion (note that many of his adventures do not have much of a puzzle).
bipolarber		#29	[-]
Nov 1 11 3:25 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	"Good greif! They've skipped over Tom Swift!" he said, forgetfully. "[The audiance] will populate the darkness with more horrors than all the horror writers in Hollywood could think of. If you make the screen dark enough, the mind's eye will read anything into it you want! We're great ones for the dark patches." -VAL LEWTON
ryanbrennan		#30	[-]
Apr 14 12 9:10 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Regarding Rambo, Rambo actually started as horror in the 1972 novel First Blood. Appropriately enough for a horror novel, the title featured the word "Blood" in it. I remain hesitant to include Anita Blake or Necroscope by Brian Lumley or Elric or Nightwatch. Perhaps book sales might persuade me. I'd like to hear your rationale behind labelling First Blood as a horror novel. His novel The Totem has more horror elements.
Scathach80		#31	[-]
Apr 14 12 10:46 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	ryanbrennan wrote: Regarding Rambo, Rambo actually started as horror in the 1972 novel First Blood. Appropriately enough for a horror novel, the title featured the word "Blood" in it. I remain hesitant to include Anita Blake or Necroscope by Brian Lumley or Elric or Nightwatch. Perhaps book sales might persuade me. I'd like to hear your rationale behind labelling First Blood as a horror novel. His novel The Totem has more horror elements. Simple, he goes on a rampage, attacks innocent people and slays many of them, the authors of Horror 100 Best Books listed it on an appendix.....
bipolarber		#32	[-]
Jun 10 12 5:16 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Doc Savage The Shadow The Avenger G-8 and His Battle Aces The Land That Time Forgot At the Earth's Core Gunga Din Horatio Hornblower The Time Machine First Men In the Moon "[The audiance] will populate the darkness with more horrors than all the horror writers in Hollywood could think of. If you make the screen dark enough, the mind's eye will read anything into it you want! We're great ones for the dark patches." -VAL LEWTON
Scathach80		#33	[-]
Jun 14 12 7:16 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	bipolarber wrote: Doc Savage The Shadow The Avenger G-8 and His Battle Aces The Land That Time Forgot At the Earth's Core Gunga Din Horatio Hornblower The Time Machine First Men In the Moon Some of these already listed upthread.
Scathach80		#34	[-]
Sep 25 12 7:23 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I feel tempted to note Narnia, but that plays into the prominence of juvenile and adolescent properties I have noted elsewhere.
gene phillips		#35	[-]
Sep 26 12 3:48 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Scathach80 wrote: I feel tempted to note Narnia, but that plays into the prominence of juvenile and adolescent properties I have noted elsewhere. "Elsewhere" in this thread? I couldn't find it here. I think a lot of pulp adventures like Doc Savage were aimed at adolescents, though it's been argued that the Spider was aimed at an older audience. NATURALISTIC! UNCANNY! MARVELOUS!
Scathach80		#36	[-]
Sep 26 12 7:09 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The Shadow as well may have had an older audience, with more complex plots.
bipolarber		#37	[-]
Oct 10 12 8:55 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The OP didn't say ANYTHING about it being "adult" adventure stories only... Which reminds me.. a lot of Heinlien's "juvies" would classify, "Tunnel in the Sky" and "Time For the Stars" especially... and Asimov's "Lucky Starr" stories... Del Rey's "Runaway Robot" and "Attack From Atlantis... "[The audiance] will populate the darkness with more horrors than all the horror writers in Hollywood could think of. If you make the screen dark enough, the mind's eye will read anything into it you want! We're great ones for the dark patches." -VAL LEWTON

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