This seventh volume of the only international anthology devoted to paying homage to the world’s most fantastic heroes from popular literature spotlights the females of the species: beautiful, deadly, tragic, accursed, enticing… all gathered here for an amazing collection of new adventures…
Tremble as Christine Daae meets Herbert West the Reanimator and Dr. Loveless Nurse Ratched! Experience thrills as Milady tries to outwit Captain Blood and Lady Blakeney the Black Coats! Watch in awe as Becky Sharp foils the designs of Sâr Dubnotal and Amelia Peabody those of mad King Tut! Wonder as the Bride of Frankenstein challenges the power of Dr. Omega and the vampire countess Marcian Gregoryi that of Victor Frankenstein and the Illuminati! Also starring Carmilla! Catherine Levendeur! Rosa Klebb! Fah Lo Suee! And the Eyes Without A Face!
With a foreword by Xavier Mauméjean and a portfolio by Matt Haley.
(Originally posted on the Internet site ERB-Zine, Issue 1484 [http://www.erbzine.com/mag14/1484.html]; 2005)
To The Editors of ERB-Zine:
I read with great interest Den Valdron’s recent article entitled “H.G. WELLS’ BARSOOM!” which dealt with how certain writers have endeavored to make the Martian invaders of Wells’ classic novel compatible with Edgar Rice Burroughs’ epic tales of Barsoomian derring-do. Having been a fan of both Wells and ERB since the third grade, I found his article to be quite good in general, informative and for the most part entertaining.
However, there was one aspect of Mr. Valdron’s essay which, quite frankly, bothered me. I refer to the following paragraph that appears near the beginning of the article in question:
“Further, fans and theorists, including the Wold Newton people, have written extensively of the mixing and matching of the worlds. Personally, I tend to take the Wold Newton stuff with a grain of salt, those people have too strong a tendency to discard inconvenient facts and invent imaginary facts to make their theories fit.”
Before I respond, a word of explanation is in order. I have already stated that I have long been a fan of Burroughs and Wells; I readily admit to also being a fan for many years of Philip Jose Farmer’s works regarding what some have come to call the “Wold Newton Universe.” (I myself prefer the term “Wold Newton Mythos,” but that is a topic for another time.) I became introduced to Farmer’s concept at the age of 12 – some 30 years ago now, I am somewhat pained to suddenly realize – and was intrigued by the imaginative tapestry which Farmer had weaved; I rather liked the idea that so many of the literary characters to whom my parents had introduced me over the years might actually exist within a single unified mythology.
Of course this was not a concept that Farmer created; as he himself has acknowledged, Farmer was simply building upon ideas originally set forth by the likes of William S. Baring-Gould in his scholarly works concerning Sherlock Holmes and Nero Wolfe. In doing so Farmer no doubt introduced more than a few readers to characters and works they might otherwise have never even heard of, let alone sought out, and (like Wells, Burroughs and so many others before him) ignited a spark in the collective imagination of more than one genereation of fans – some of whom have endeavored to further build upon the foundation which Baring-Gould, Farmer and others have laid.
As a professional writer myself, I have had the opportunity to make my own (admittedly miniscule) contributions to the further expansion of Farmer’s concepts. It has been an enjoyable experience, one which I have come to treasure both at a professional and personal level. But for me it is a hobby, a diversion – a game I play every now and then to help relieve the tensions of my day-to-day routine. (I am by trade a newspaper reporter, which according to several studies I have come across ranks high upon the list of most stressful occupations – which may explain why so may reporters tend to become alcoholics. But where many reporters tend to drink a lot, I prefer to read and write about my favorite childhood heroes – it’s far less expensive in the long run, and not nearly so hard on my liver.)
And unlike, say, checkers or Twister, it is a game without any hard and fast rules; gather any 10 such Wold Newton devotees in a room together, and you’re likely to hear 10 different explanations of what characters and works should or should not be included in the Mythos and why. And each argument will be equally as valid as the others, when considered from each individual’s point of view.
That is part of what bothered me about Mr. Valdron’s statement: his indiscriminant painting of all devotees of the Wold Newton concept with such a broad brush. Labelling all fans of any fictional series or concept as “those people” brings to mind the unfortunate stereotypical image of the “fanboy” (to use the derogatory term originally coined to identify a certain type of comic book fan) or of “Trekkies,” labels which generally are used with derision and disdain by those who don’t happen to share these fans’ particular passion. Such labels and others like them are as inaccurate as they are unkind, as I’m sure a great many fans of both “Star Trek” and “Star Wars” will gladly attest.
(For the record, I am also a fan of both “Star Wars” and “Star Trek.” However, I have never attended a George Lucas film dressed as Luke Skywalker and brandishing a lightsaber. And I am certainly no “Trekkie,” or “Trekker,” or whatever term is currently in vogue among those whose behavior gave rise to such stereotypes in the first place; in fact, I was once asked to leave a convention hall full of some of the more rabid “Trek” fans because I dared to suggest publicly that the reason the Klingons from the original TV series looked different than those seen in the films and subsequent TV spin-offs was because the later productions had more money in their budgets for creative make-up appliances. If there is anything more disconcerting than to be regarded as being odd by a group of people wearing rubber Spock ears, it would have to be finding yourself being chased out of a room with those rubber Spock ears bouncing off your back.)
I have referred to my own interest in the Wold Newton Mythos as a game or diversion; this is not meant to belittle the Wold Newton concept in any way, and I hope that others do not read such intent into my comments. Indeed, I happen to share the view of a number of friends and colleagues who consider the study and expansion of Farmer’s concepts to be a legitimate field of literary scholarship; what separates me from such students of this field is not lesser interest on my part, but rather my comparative lack of adequate time or resources.
I mention this because it occurs to me that if attaching a label to all fans of a particular science fiction series due to the behavior of a relative few is unfair, then dismissing an entire field of study as something that “those people” do is equally ill-advised. It is an act akin to disavowing the entire field of biology simply because one does not agree with the theories set forth by Darwin, or showing contempt for all geneticists because of the controversy surrounding stem cell research.
Casting members of any group – biologists, geneticists, individuals of different religious or political persuasions, even the “Wold Newton people” (to use Valdron’s terminology) – as “those people” creates an unnecessarily adversarial, “Us vs. Them” dichotomy that is both counter-productive and, ultimately, intellectually dishonest..
Which brings me to the other aspect of Mr. Valdron’s statement that I found disturbing, as well as somewhat puzzling. After going out of his way to issue what amounts to a blanket condemnation of Wold Newton devotees, he then proceeds to engage in exactly the same manner of scholarly literary exercise which he has just so cavalierly dismissed. Mr. Valdron would no doubt dismiss this last observation of mine as inaccurate, yet a simple comparison of his essays with those produced by Wold Newton devotees clearly demonstrates otherwise.
Such comparison will also reveal to the open-minded reader that Mr. Valdron’s studies have in certain cases led to observations and conclusions that are identical or similar to those reached independently by other literary scholars who, as it happens, are devotees of the Wold Newton Mythos. Yet his view appears to be that his work is above reproach, while similar conclusions that have been arrived at by anyone who even professes interest in Wold Newton scholarship is somehow suspect. He is welcome to this opinion, of course, but his believing it does not automatically make it so.
Just as there are a number of variations of the game poker, so too are there more than one way to play the game which we are considering here. A college professor of mine referred to it as “literary archeology”; Mr. Valdron has similarly referred to it as the “Archeology of Unreality,” while certain devotees of Farmer’s concepts refer to it as Wold Newtonry. In my younger days I called it “Sleuthing in the Stacks” – a reference to a 1944 book of the same name by Professor Rudolph Altrocchi, a work referenced by Richard A. Lupoff in his excellent “Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master Of Adventure.”
But no matter what name we may individually apply to it, no matter how the rules may vary from one variation to the next, in the end we are all playing the same game; to suggest otherwise is, again, intellectually dishonest at best – and blatantly hypocritical at worst. Our perspectives and methodologies may differ, our conclusions may not always be compatible with one another’s, but in the end our goal is the same: “to try and get it all to fit in plausibly together,” as Mr. Valdron himself has stated.
There was more I had originally intended to say, but I believe I’ll conclude here. It is not my intent to engage in a war of words or dispute literary ideologies with Mr. Valdron (although one can’t help but get the impression from his work that Mr. Valdron, for reasons known only to him, might actually welcome such a fight); such debate would be a fruitless exercise, an unnecessary expenditure of time and energy unlikely to change anyone’s mind, and which would serve no real function other than to take away from the joy many of us with an interest in such things derive from this game in the first place.
And at the end of the day, isn’t that really what this is supposed to be all about? Aren’t we just trying to have fun?
“Six Degrees of Philip José Farmer” By Win Scott Eckert
Last column we discussed the great genealogist Philip José Farmer’s discovery of the “Wold Newton Family,” – highly influential people, many heroic, and some villainous, whose lives are chronicled in the guise of popular literature. While Farmer wrote critical essays and serious biographies in which he revealed his researches, he was also not above divulging more of his findings under the guise of popular fiction. A full survey of Farmer’s Wold Newton “fiction” is beyond the scope of this column, so I will focus here on a few key pieces which reveal that, beyond the Wold Newton Family (WNF) proper, there is indeed a whole “Wold Newton Universe” (WNU) ripe for exploration. In fact, if one follows the trail of connections through his fiction, one is lead to the most astonishing places.
For instance, after reading Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, one might not be surprised to find in Farmer’s novel The Adventure of the Peerless Peer that Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes, The Shadow (“Colonel Kentov”), and G-8 (“Wentworth”) shared an adventure together. One might not even be surprised that three other WNF members are mentioned: Leftenant John “Korak” Drummond, Lord John Roxton, and Allan Quatermain. But one might be taken aback to also see Dr. Gideon Fell and Henry Merrivale, two renowned detectives whose cases were recounted by John Dickson Carr. Farmer never mentioned them as Family members, but surely their appearance is indicative that sleuths in the larger WNU are not limited to WNF members.
Farmer also wrote two novels of pre-history, Hadon of Ancient Opar and Flight to Opar. In these, he discovered connections between the lost city of Opar from Burroughs’ Tarzan novels, and the novels of H. Rider Haggard. In a later interview, Farmer revealed that Hadon’s son emigrated south and founded the city of Kôr, from Haggard’s She. He carried with him a huge axe made of meteorite iron, which was eventually passed down to Umslopogass, the great Zulu warrior, who shattered it in the city of Zu-Vendis (Haggard’s Allan Quatermain). In this way, Farmer revealed that the WNU has a rich history beyond the WNF.
In Farmer’s translation of J. H. Rosny’s Ironcastle, he adds references to several WNF members, including Phileas Fogg, Sherlock Holmes (through a reference to the Diogenes Club from the Holmes stories), Joseph Jorkens, Doc Savage (although the reference in Ironcastle is really to Doc’s father, Dr. Clark Savage, Sr.1), and Professor Challenger (through a reference to the South American expedition from Doyle’s The Lost World). Sir George Curtis also appears; he is the nephew of Sir Henry Curtis from H. Rider Haggard’s Allan Quatermain novels. Farmer states that Hareton Ironcastle is related to Professor Porter, Jane’s father from the Tarzan books.
An interesting new element that Farmer adds with this crossover is the Baltimore Gun Club. This means that some version of Jules Verne’s novels, From the Earth to the Moon and The Purchase of the North Pole (aka Topsy Turvy), take place in the WNU. Since Verne’s works are also interconnected, this means that other Verne novels such as Hector Servadac, The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, and The School for Robinsons (aka The School for Crusoes) occur within Wold Newton continuity.
Farmer’s novel of young Doc Savage’s first adventure, Escape from Loki, added many other elements to the WNU, as seen from this excerpt from my Wold Newton Universe Crossover Chronology:
ESCAPE FROM LOKI Clark “Doc” Savage, Jr., meets his friends and associates Ham Brooks, Monk Mayfair, Renny Renwick, Long Tom Roberts and Johnny Littlejohn in the German prison camp Loki. There is mention of a “worm unknown to science,” which can be demonstrated to be a direct link to the Cthulhu Mythos. Doc’s tutor in mountain climbing, yoga, and self-defense, Dekka Lan Shan, is the grandfather of Peter the Brazen. A character named Benedict Murdstone also appears. Savage & Co. meet Abraham Cohen, who would go on to membership in Jimmie Cordies’ band of mercenaries, and an Allied prisoner named O’Brien, a soldier of Irish extraction. It is also mentioned that Doc Savage was trained by an aborigine, Writjitandel of the Wantella tribe. And Doc’s Persian Sufi tutor is named Hajji Abdu el-Yezdi.
Escape from Loki is a novel by Philip José Farmer, Bantam Books, 1991. The “worm unknown to science” was first referred to in Watson’s / Doyle’s “The Problem of Thor Bridge,” and was followed-up on in Harry “Bunny” Manders’ Raffles tale (edited by Philip José Farmer), “The Problem of the Sore Bridge – Among Others.” Peter the Brazen, aka Peter Moore, was an adventurer in pulp stories written by George Worts. Of Peter the Brazen, Wold Newton scholar Rick Lai adds, “One of Worts’ Gillian Hazeltine stories mentions a ship, The King of Asia, which also appears in the Peter the Brazen stories. Worts’ Singapore Sammy story, “South of Sulu,” mentions that Sammy was friendly with a jewel trader, De Sylva. This may be the same character as the jewel merchant, Dan de Sylva, who appears in a later Peter the Brazen story, “The Octopus of Hongkong.”
Murdstone is related to the family which appears in Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield. The Jimmie Cordie adventures by William Wirt are a series of twentyone stories about a group of mercenaries in the Far East after the Great War. Rick Lai adds: “O’Brien is probably Jem O’Brien, ex-jockey, exconvict, decorated soldier in the American army during World War I, and special assistant to the Scarlet Fox. Created by Eustace Hale Ball, the Scarlet Fox was a pulp hero who appeared in seven stories in Black Mask during 1923-24. The first six stories were published as a novel, The Scarlet Fox, in 1927.”
In Arthur Upfield’s novel about the Australian detective, Inspector Napoleon “Bony” Bonaparte, No Footprints in the Bush (1940), a major character is Writjitandil (Farmer changed an “i” to an “e”) of the Wantella tribe. Rick Lai writes again: “In an introduction to an edition of an Upfield novel which does not feature Bonaparte, The House of Cain (Dennis McMillan, 1983), Philip José Farmer speculated that Bonaparte was the illegitimate son of E. W. Hornung’s A.J. Raffles. In Upfield’s novels, Bonaparte is illegitimate son of an unnamed white man and an aborigine woman. Upfield’s early novels suggest that Bonaparte was born in the late 1880s. Raffles was in Australia about that time according to Hornung’s ‘Le Premier Pas.’”
Chris Carey points out that “Sir Richard Francis Burton (the real-life protagonist of Farmer’s Riverworld series) wrote a curious book entitled The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî. At the time the volume was first published, Burton claimed to be merely the translator of the wise Sufi’s work. However, the truth finally came out that Burton wrote it. While Haji Abdu El-Yezdi may be a fictional character in our world, we may only assume that he existed in flesh and blood in Farmer’s Wold Newton Universe.”
One never knows when additional information from Farmer’s researches will come to light. His tale “After King Kong Fell” clearly takes place in the WNU because WNF members Doc Savage and The Shadow arrive on the scene in the aftermath of the giant ape’s plummet from Doc’s headquarters, the Empire State Building. That King Kong exists in the WNU may be old news to some.
Imagine, then, the glee with which a “Farmerphile,” who thinks that there are no new Wold Newton connections to be revealed in Farmer’s work, learns that he is wrong. The young protagonist who is visiting New York during the 1931 events of “After King Kong Fell” is one Tim Howller of Peoria, Illinois, age thirteen. A newly discovered Farmer short story, “The Face that Launched a Thousand Eggs” (published for the first time in Farmerphile No. 1, July 2005), features nineteen-year-old Tim Howller. The story takes place in 1937. It undoubtedly features the same Tim Howller from “After King Kong Fell,” and what’s more, “The Face that Launched a Thousand Eggs” is semi-autobiographical.
The inescapable conclusion is that Philip José Farmer himself witnessed Kong’s plunge from the Empire State Building. And if that doesn’t enhance our understanding of the inter-tangled history behind the Wold Newton Universe, then I don’t know what does.
Additional Sources: Carey, Christopher Paul. “Farmer’s Escape from Loki: A Closer Look.” The Official Philip José Farmer Home Page. <http://www.pjfarmer.com/fan/chris1.htm>.
1 To be perfectly accurate, the real name of Doc Savage’s father, as Farmer demonstrated in Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, is Dr. James Clarke Wildman, Sr.
(Originally published in the program for FarmerCon IV [a.k.a. The Philip José Farmer Memorial Gathering], held in Peoria, Illinois, on June 6, 2009)
…Phil let out a long, relaxed sigh, held his arms up over his head and stretched, as if waking up from an afternoon nap. He opened his eyes and quickly shut them again, blinded by a bright summer sun like the ones he remembered from his childhood so many years before.
Holding up a hand to block the sunlight, he slowly opened his eyes again and waited for his vision to adjust itself to his surroundings. After a moment he rose from the waist up, put his arms behind him to prop himself up, and looked around. He was lying in the middle of a vast meadow, the unshorn grass and bright yellow and purple flowers swaying to the caress of a warm, gentle breeze. The sky was cloudless, a great azure sea that seemed to stretch out forever.
“Now how the hell did I get here?” he asked aloud. “Come to think of it, where is here?” The sound of his own voice took him by surprise; there was a renewed strength and youthful resonance it had not earlier possessed.
And then he noticed something else – that warm, gentle breeze that caressed the grass and flowers was also caressing his body in a fashion he had not felt for more years than he remembered. Glancing down at himself, he realized with a start that he was as naked as the day he was born. No, he was more than simply naked; he was transformed. Where before he would have seen the frail, wizened shell of a man in his 90s, there now sat a strapping, robust, much younger fellow whom he could not remember ever having been.
He leapt to his feet with a vigor that almost scared him. He held his hands and arms before his eyes, amazed at the power and vitality they now seemed to possess. He rubbed his palms over his face and realized that the wrinkles that had once lined his visage had disappeared. Hell, he even had a full head of hair!
He tried to think of something to say, but for one of the few times he could remember words failed him. The first thing that came to mind – “Holy shit!” – just didn’t seem appropriate somehow. So instead he just laughed and danced around like a child on Christmas morning, marveling at this unexpectedly gracious gift the universe had seen fit to bestow and wondering just what he might have done to deserve it.
He was still dancing about when he thought he caught a glimpse of another man there in the distance, running in his direction with a look of determination etched upon his features. As the stranger drew closer Phil had the feeling that he had seen him somewhere before, but he could not be certain; certainly there was something familiar about him, but it was the kind of vague familiarity that one sometimes feels about someone they only think they might have encountered at some point.
Carrying a broadsword, clad only in a loincloth with a huge battle axe strapped across his back, the stranger sprinted gracefully across the grass and at first did not seem to notice Phil’s presence. In fact, Phil thought at first that he might pass by without seeing him at all. After a moment, however, the stranger slowed and changed direction ever so slightly, approaching Phil with an amused expression. Phil thought that expression may have stemmed from the sight of his own nudity; suddenly self-conscious, he glanced about in hopes of finding some kind of shrub to step behind. There were none.
“Hello, there,” the stranger called out as he came closer. “Are you friend or foe?”
When Phil didn’t answer immediately the stranger cocked his head slightly to one side, his expression darkening slightly. “Well? Which is it?”
“I… well, I don’t know,” Phil finally replied. “That depends on you, I guess. I hope a friend. I can’t imagine that I have any quarrel with someone I’ve just met for the first time.”
The stranger grunted softly in response. “Fair enough,” he said. “Where are you headed?”
Phil looked around again. “That’s a good question,” he said. “I don’t know where I am, or how I got here.” He paused for a moment and wrinkled his forehead in consternation. “To tell the truth, all of a sudden I’m not even sure who I am. I remember lying in my bed at home, feeling very tired and light headed, and I guess I must have drifted off to sleep… then I wake up a few minutes ago stark naked in the middle of nowhere, looking 70 years younger and feeling better than I remember feeling in a good many years. It’s all very… strange.”
A flicker of recognition flashed in the stranger’s eyes, and he grinned. “Yes,” he said softly. “I remember that feeling…”
Something about the stranger’s expression tickled Phil’s memory, and he once again found himself wondering why. After a moment he shrugged and surveyed is surroundings once more. After a moment he mused, “I’m guessing this isn’t Riverworld then, is it?”
“No,” the stranger told him. “It’s not Barsoom, either.”
Then his grin turned into a full-fledged smile and he added, “It’s better.”
Phil whirled round to face the stranger again. “Did you say Barsoom?” The stranger only nodded in response, and then it was Phil’s turn to grin in recognition.
After a moment’s silence the stranger reached out and placed a hand on Phil’s shoulder as a gesture of fellowship. “Stay well then, friend. I hope your voyage is a pleasant one.” With that he turned and started to jog away in the direction he had been going when Phil first spied him.
At first Phil just stood and watched his departure, but before the stranger had gone very far he heard Phil calling after him. “Hey!” Phil cried as he sprinted to catch up. As the stranger stopped and turned to face him, Phil added, “Please, wait just a minute. There’s so much I don’t understand, and something tells me you’re the one who can answer my questions. So if you don’t mind the company, I’d like to come with you.”
The stranger gave the request just a few seconds’ thought. “All right,” he answered. “Here, take this.” He handed his sword to Phil and reached behind him, taking the battle axe in hand. “You’ll need it where we’re headed.”
Phil looked upon the sword and smiled, admiring the way it felt in his hands as he used the weapon to cut a swath through the air in front of him. Then he looked up at his new friend. “Thank you,” he said with a mixture of awe and respect. “By the way, my name’s Phil.”
The stranger smiled again as he reached out to shake Phil’s hand. “I’m Ed,” he answered. “Now let’s be off. There’s a princess to be rescued, and not a moment to waste.”
He took a single step forward before stopping and turning to face Phil again. “But first, let’s see if we can’t find you something to wear.”
Phil returned his smile as the two of them set out across the grassy terrain, toward whatever adventure might lie ahead….
(Lovingly dedicated to the memories of Philip José Farmer and Edgar Rice Burroughs)
With special thanks to Rick Lai for his work on the Leviathan/Yig Cult and advice since the writing of this article.
The television show Dark Shadows presented to viewers a fictionalized account of a family steeped in the world of the occult and the mystical. A more detailed examination of the root cause of the Collins family of Collinsport, Maine presents far deeper connections to the mystic world that often intersects with the Wold Newton Universe.
The Collins family moved to the lands later known as Collinsport in 1690. Isaac Collins moved to an unoccupied area known as Frenchman’s Bay and claimed the area, later starting a fishing fleet that formed the basis for the Collins family fortune. His brother, Amadeus Collins, arrived a short time later and became involved in local politics, centering in the Bedford community. Amadeus sat as one of three judges, trying and condemning a warlock named Judah Zachery. This would be the root cause for the Collins family’s becoming one of the foremost family’s in the world of the occult. Judah Zachery was a powerful and feared warlock who was the leader of a hidden coven that secretly worshipped the legendary beings known as the Old Ones. Under the guise of Satanic worship, Zachery created a false coven with the intention of using these followers as sacrifices to the Old Ones. But the true coven was smaller and far more dedicated to the true goals.
Who were these followers? Research has revealed Judah Zachery’s circle consisted of himself and three other men known as Joseph Curwen, Simon Orne and Edward Hutchinson. Each of these men were unique and powerful practitioners of magic, able to return from death, live without aging and control the minds of others. With the execution of Zachery, Curwen, a handsome and wealthy merchant, assumed control of the coven.
Before we continue on, let us examine each of these men briefly so we understand their connections as they emerge throughout the Collins family history:
Joseph Curwen was a wealthy merchant with connections throughout the world that he would utilize in his life as a servant of the Old Ones. A seductive and good-looking man, he earned much suspicion while residing in Providence, Rhode Island after seducing and marrying a local beauty. His greatest power was the ability to return from the grave after multiple deaths.
Edward Hutchinson was a learned man who may have been the source of the hysteria surrounding the Salem Witch trials. Ageless, his greatest desire was to become an Old World aristocrat. He is known to have been taught necromancy by the infamous Baron Janos Ferenczy. While residing in Ferenczy Castle, he took to calling himself Lord Ferenczy and Count Petofi and earned the enmity of the Romano Gypsy clan.
Simon Orne was the most learned of this coven, a powerful sorcerer who was also a renowned chemist. His collection of books was legendary and he was one of the founders and first lecturers of the college later known as Miskatonic University. The library still exists as the basis of the rare books collection of the school to this day(1).
Judah Zachery cursed his executioners before his death and a short time later Amadeus Collins and his family died. His fellow coven members then began to observe the growing power of Amadeus Collins brother, Isaac Collins. Realizing this family’s wealth and position could be useful in the future, the coven kept an eye on the Collins from that time on. However the Collins family was just going to be a tool for the future, their real work was to open the way for the being known as Yog-Sothoth and his kin.
The first steps came from Orne and Hutchinson. Orne was secretly the father of a daughter named Laura with a woman named Murdoch. An expert on lost cults, Simon Orne discovered that the Old One known as Cthugha was better known as the Egyptian Sun God Ra. Cthugha’s high priest/priestess was known as the Phoenix and the Old One granted their representative the powers of fire control and to be reborn like their namesake the Phoenix(2).
Hutchinson also fathered a daughter known as Miranda DuVal, though he barely acknowledged her existence. Miranda was one of the many duped into the false coven of Judah Zachery and later testified against him in his trial before Amadeus Collins. With the death of Zachery, Hutchinson forced DuVal to become a servant of the coven, never acknowledging her as his daughter.
Curwen worked with his compatriots as well but also began to establish connections to the Collinsport community. In 1762 he seduced the most beautiful woman in the vicinity, Naomi Bennett, and used his mystic powers to cause a 13-year-old Joshua Collins to fall madly in love with the 16 year old Bennett. In 1763 Curwen, who gave her some jewels that were later known as the Collins family jewels, impregnated Bennett. Abandoning Bennett, she accepted Joshua Collins suit and later gave birth to Joseph Curwen’s son, Barnabas. Curwen would be burnt to death by the townspeople of Providence in 1771, pushing back the coven’s plans for a time(3).
In 1784 Laura Murdoch the Phoenix married Jeremiah Collins, the younger brother of Joshua Collins. Though she was close to Barnabas, she died a short time later of a flu epidemic that struck the area. This would not be her first marriage to the Collins family. In 1791 Joshua Collins was in correspondence with the DuPres family of Martinique. The DuPres’s owned several plantations and required a shipping partner to increase their fortune. An ancient noble family, the DuPres clan had foreseen the fall of the monarchy and were well out of the country by the time of the French Revolution.
Hutchinson sailed to the island at that time and he used magic to place the spirit of his deceased daughter Miranda in the household as servant to the daughter and heir to the family, Josette DuPres. Miranda, now known as Angelique Bouchard, was ordered to seduce Barnabas Collins and bear him and heir. In 1792 Barnabas arrived in Martinique and fell madly in love with Josette DuPres, all the while conducting a secret affair with Angelique. Angelique did become pregnant, but used her witchcraft to prevent anyone from remembering the birth of a child.
Why did he choose to place the spirit of Miranda into the body of Angelique? Two reasons. The first, Angelique had some acquaintance with witchcraft by the time Hutchinson examined the DuPres family. Her mother was a slave in Martinique while her father was Josette DuPres’s own father, with only Angelique and Josette’s aunt Countess DuPres knowing they were actually half-sisters. The second reason was far simpler, Angelique resembled Miranda in a remarkable way(4).
Barnabas Collins was an interesting man by that time. Wealthy and quick to fall in love with beautiful women, he was a person with a true dual nature. Kind to servants like Ben Stokes, he also had a dangerous and vicious streak that appeared whenever he was enraged. Barnabas believed himself to be a romantic figure, but even his loyal servant Ben Stokes once revealed that he wasn’t a good person even prior to becoming cursed as a vampire.
In 1795 Josette DuPres and her “servant” Angelique arrived in Collinsport where Josette was intending to marry Barnabas. Angelique attempted to re-ignite her affair with Barnabas, but he spurned her in favor of the virginal Josette. Angelique, enraged that the father of her secret child chose another, performed a love spell on Josette and Jeremiah Collins. Josette and Jeremiah eloped and Jeremiah was later killed in a duel with Barnabas. Barnabas, destroyed by Josette’s betrayal, married Angelique but planned on leaving her once Josette admitted she still loved him. In a rage, Angelique threatened Josette’s life, so Barnabas shot her.
Believing herself to be dying, Angelique cursed him and caused a rift to open between Transylvania. Dracula Prime, the real and rarely seen Lord of Vampires, arrived and transformed Barnabas into a soul clone. However the transformation was not complete, the Curwen lineage was too strong to make Barnabas into another lesser form of Dracula. Barnabas was trapped in his coffin by his father in 1796, but would exit it twice thanks to time travel.
In 1797 Joseph Curwen was reborn and took the name Obadiah Marsh as he moved to Innsmouth, Massachusetts(5). Marsh/Curwen was serving Dagon, who was supposedly a servant of the Old One known as Cthulhu, and established a Deep Ones colony in Devil’s Reef off Innsmouth. In the 1840’s, pretending to be in own son, Curwen took the name Captain Obed Marsh and established the Esoteric Order of Dagon and converted most of the town through hypnosis or violence. Using the Order, Curwen began mating the Innsmouth community with the Deep Ones, causing the rise of hybrid race that flourished until Navy Intelligence destroyed the town and reef in 1928(6).
Amusingly enough the leader of the Order and town at the time of Innsmouth’s destruction was Curwen/Marsh’s grandson, Barnabas Marsh(7). Apparently Curwen liked the name and used it for his second son. He died in 1878, murdered by one of his children who wished to control the town and Order. He would later return as Evan Hanley, a lawyer employed by the Collins family.
Harriet Bouchard was raised in Europe by Simon Orne, becoming a powerful witch in her own right. In 1809 she moved to Collinsport and married Daniel Collins, a cousin of Joshua who was raised in Collinsport. She gave birth to two sons, Quentin and Gabriel, and taught Quentin witchcraft. Gabriel did not possess the family talent, but was considered a terrifying and harsh individual. In 1830 Daniel Collins discovered his wife was a witch and strangled her, throwing her body off Widow’s Hill.
However the family would soon see the return of their first enemy, Judah Zachery. Zachery’s head, hidden in the Far East since his execution, was brought back to Collinsport. Using a mystical item called the “Mask of Ba’al”, he controlled people in an attempt to reunite his head and body and return to life. The Mask of Ba’al appears to be a Dagonic priest’s mask that enabled Zachery to focus his power through servants.
Barnabas, traveling through time, arrived in 1840 and rescued Quentin Collins and assists in destroying Judah Zachery a very short time after he was returned to life. Quentin Collins would leave Collinsport with Daphne Harriage and change their name to Barrington. One of his ancestors, Catherine Madison, would follow the family tradition of witchcraft and come into conflict with the current slayer, Buffy Summers. Quentin’s son, Tad Collins, would form a family on the West Coast of what later became California. One of his ancestors would move to the Far East and father a son named Malay Collins. Malay Collins would become an adventurer in his own right(8).
Gabriel Collins would inherit the family wealth after murdering his father Daniel and his oldest son, Edward would marry Laura Murdoch aka Laura Orne in 1883. In 1886 she gave birth to Jamison Collins, but ran away with Edward’s younger brother, Quentin Collins in 1896. Quentin Collins was the closest to his family heritage, a lesser practitioner of witchcraft, he seduced and married one Jenny Romano, a gypsy of the Romano clan.
The Romano clan is best known for its conflicts with Edward Hutchinson in Europe. Hutchinson, who usurped the lesser title of the Ferenczy family, was known as Count Petofi, practiced the art of necromancy and undertook human experiments. This weakened Hutchinson’s power and his years were spent searching for his missing hand and a means of revenge on the Romano clan.
Jenny Collins gave birth to twin children after Quentin abandoned her for Laura Collins. Jenny went mad and was helped by her sister, Magda Rakosi. The children were raised by another family from that time on. While in Alexandria, Quentin Collins witnessed Laura Collins death as a sacrifice to Ra and would claim she abandoned him during their travels. Sadly Jenny Collins would attack Quentin’s lover Beth Chavez and be killed by Quentin. Magda, in her grief, cursed Quentin into becoming a werewolf.
Prior to this time, Barnabas Collins traveled to 1897 from the 1960’s using the I Ching. The reason for the time travel was because the ghosts of Quentin Collins and his lover Beth Chavez, were haunting Collinswood and possessing the children that lived in the home, David Collins and Amy Haskell. Angelique returns in 1897 and blackmails Barnabas Collins into marrying her once again. She would assist Barnabas through this period but was unable to assist Quentin in preventing his transformation into a werewolf. Angelique did save the Collins family from Laura the Phoenix in a battle of magic that destroyed part of the home.
Magda, discovering she had a niece and nephew, obtained the hand of Count Petofi, knowing it was a powerful magical item. It proved impossible to control and soon was reunited with its owner Count Petofi aka Edward Hutchinson. Petofi/Hutchinson had, in 1797 been cursed by the Romano gypsy clan with lycanthropy. This was a particularly vicious curse to a follower of the Old Ones since it is later revealed in Dark Shadows that werewolves are the natural enemies of creatures like the half-breeds known as Leviathan. In exchange for his hand, the Romano clan cured Petofi, but the loss of the hand severely weakened his power.
Hutchinson helped Quentin by having a painting done of him by Charles Delaware Tate. Tate was able to imbue the painting of Quentin Collins with a connection to its subject, making Quentin effectively immortal. The reason for Hutchinson’s actions was to create an immortal body he could possess and allow the Romano clan to cease seeking his destruction. He nearly succeeded but was killed by fire at Tate’s studio.
Quentin, now immortal, would travel the world and lose his memory until 1968 and call himself Grant Douglas. Curwen under the name Hanley, was planning on manipulating the family further was strangled to death by one Garth Blackwood. He would briefly return through the body of his ancestor, Charles Dexter Ward, but was destroyed once again. He returned a short time later under the name Nicholas Blair.
Simon Orne, posing as a butler named Hanscomb, was the next to encounter the Collins family. A young Elizabeth Collins, daughter of Jamison Collins (who’s mother was Laura the Phoenix) was seduced by Orne and gave the child up for adoption in New York. This child later was known as Victoria Winters and would meet the Collins family in 1966 when Elizabeth forced her brother Roger to hire her unacknowledged daughter as a governess for Roger’s son David. Elizabeth would later marry Paul Stoddard, who was a distant relative of the famous British sea Captain, Lucky Jack Aubrey(9). On the day he was running away from his family he promised a stranger, who was secretly Nicholas Blair/Joseph Curwen, anything in return for wealth. Stoddard, who had just had a violent altercation with Elizabeth, believed he had nothing at the time. Not thinking clearly, Paul Stoddard didn’t consider that he had a young daughter, Carolyn, at the time of this promise.
Laura the Phoenix returned at this time and would marry Roger Collins, giving birth to their son David. Yes, Roger Collins married and had a son with his own grandmother. Laura was killed by Roger, but also returned, intending on burning David to death and making him one of the fire vampires who serve Cthugha but failed again.
In 1966 Barnabas Collins was reawaken by Willie Loomis, who was intending to steal the Collins family jewels. At that time he made an ally in Dr. Julia Hoffman, who would devote her life to curing his curse of vampirism. She briefly cured the disease, but her serum ultimately failed in the end. She would remain his ally until she passed away of natural causes in 1985.
It was then that Nicholas Blair/Joseph Curwen’s latest plan came to fruition. Using an ancestor of Dr. Henry Frankenstein, Dr. Eric Lang, Blair had Lang use Barnabas as the catalyst to bring to life Lang’s creation, Adam(10). Adam, like the original Frankenstein monster, began as a crazed savage who later learned culture and reasoning. Blair’s plan was to create an army of these creatures and went so far as to supply an evil spirit for Eve in the hopes of mating her with Adam. This army would assist in the cult he’d formed since returning to life, the Leviathans. Sadly the plan failed in part because, like many similar brides, Adam repulsed Eve.
The Leviathan cult was a secret coven created by Blair, worshipping the Great Old One known as Yig. Yig often appeared to its worshippers as a serpent or a serpent man, had followers throughout the world(11). One of Blair’s earliest converts was Sky Rumson, a millionaire who married Angelique unaware she was a witch.
Curwen had also decided to start another family, picking waitress Maggie Evans to be his latest bride. Angelique, whose powers were removed and was turned into a vampire by Curwen, contacted one Diablos about Curwen’s latest interest. Diablos, who was viewed as a man with no visible face in black robes, was the messenger of the Old Ones known as Nyarlthoptep(12). Nyarlthoptep ordered Curwen to sacrifice Maggie Evans and once failed, was punished by the Old Ones.
Curwen later returned to herald the greatest act of the Leviathan cult, bringing a child of Leviathan into the world. This plan succeeded and child, who grew up to adult age in mere weeks, was known as Jeb Hawkes. Hawkes would later marry Carolyn Stoddard but before he could father a child would be killed by Sky Rumson. Rumson threw Hawkes off Widow Hill before he truly came into his power, another failure for Curwen/Blair and their coven.
The final act of Nicholas Blair to date regarding the Collins family was to seduce and marry Victoria Winters. Though it was reported that Victoria Winters was transported back in time and jumped off Widow’s Hill, the details of this transportation to the past and death were confused reports from a vengeful spirit. In truth they were merely a device used by Blair to hide that Victoria was alive and well and married to him in the current century. Fathering twins named Daimon and Susanna, the children would later change their names to Daimon and Satana Hellstrom and are currently devoting their lives to fighting their father’s plans. Satana is currently working with a team called “The Witches” while Daimon was last seen in New Orleans fighting a demonic cult(13).
Footnotes: 1. For more on Joseph Curwen, Simon Orne and Edward Hutchinson please see “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward” by HP Lovecraft and Deadspeak by Brian Lumley
2. Cthugha first appeared in “The Dweller in Darkness” by August Derleth
3. “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward” by HP Lovecraft
4. Please see “Angelique’s Descent” by Lara Parker for more information regarding Angelique’s origins. Miranda DuVal was not referenced until the 1840’s storyline and while some have attempted to reconcile this conflict through reincarnation, little evidence exists to support this supposition. Angelique spirit was shown to be controlled by Nicholas Blair, who was able to return her to life as a vampire with apparent ease. Therefore it is likely that after Miranda’s death, she was placed in the body of Angelique Bouchard, half-sister of Josette DuPres.
5. Obadiah Marsh appeared in “The Seal of R’lyeh” by August Derelth
6. Obed Marsh was referenced as the founder of the Esoteric Order of Dagon and leader of the community of Innsmouth in “The Shadow over Innsmouth”
7. Barnabas Marsh was referenced as the leader of the community of Innsmouth in “The Shadow over Innsmouth”
8. Malay Collins the “master thief of the east” first appeared in “The Eye of Black A’Wang” by Murray Leinster
9. For more information of Captain Jack “Lucky Jack” Aubrey please see the Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian.
10. Dr. Henry Frankenstein first appeared in the movie “Frankenstein” and returned in “The Bride of Frankenstein”
11. Yig first appeared in “The Curse of Yig” by HP Lovecraft
12. Nyarlthoptep first appeared in “Nyarlthoptep” by HP Lovecraft
13. For more information of Daimon and Satana Hellstrom please see Marvel Comics “Son of Satan”, “Ghost Rider”, “Vampire Tales”, “Witches”, “Hellstorm” “Dr. Strange”, “The Defenders” and “Hellstorm:Son of Satan.”
Philip José Farmer’s fascination with the characters of Tarzan and Doc Savage are well known. He had after all written biographies of both characters and fulfilled his life long dream of writing both an authorized Doc Savage novel, Escape from Loki, and an authorized Tarzan novel, Dark Heart of Time. AdditionallyTarzan and Doc Savage turned up in many of Farmer’s works, although often in disguise. What does not get as much attention however is Farmer’s fascination with another pulp figure, The Shadow, who also appeared in various guises in some of his works.
I believe that Farmer’s first Tarzan pastiche was also his first attempt at a “fictional author” piece. Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod was the story of Tarzan as it had been written by William S. Burroughs rather than Edgar Rice Burroughs.
The most obvious example is his pastiche, A Feast Unknown in which he fulfilled a fan’s dream of not only having Tarzan and Doc Savage meet but fight. Of course the novel was much more than just an extended piece of fan fiction. He used these two archetypes of pulp fiction to examine the connection between sex and violence, not simply because they were pulp conventions because of their pervasiveness
Farmer followed A Feast Unknown with Lord of the Trees and The Mad Goblin. These were separate adventures of Lord Grandrith, (Farmer’s Tarzan based character) and Doc Caliban, (Farmer’s Doc Savage based character). However these were more along the lines of pure pastiche and while entertaining did not have the visceral impact of A Feast Unknown.
While A Feast Unknown dealt in part with the reality of the Tarzan character, demonstrating in a few effective passages how literally inhuman and “uncivilized” a man raised by apes in primitive Africa would be, that was not the main focus of the novel. It was however the focus of Lord Tyger which was published in 1970 the same year as Lord of the Tree/Mad Goblin. The novel is the story of Ras Tyger a boy raised by apes in primitive Africa and is told from his point of view although not in first person form. Farmer effectively demonstrates both the emotional and mental processes of a true feral man as Ras Tyger grows to manhood. While Lord Tyger is a tribute to the Tarzan epic of Edgar Rice Burroughs it also dissects Burroughs version of the Tarzan mythos for its plausibility. As is often the case when a myth is so closely examined, it falls apart. In Lord Tyger Philip José Farmer proves that Tarzan as written by Edgar Rice Burroughs could not have existed, and if the correct conditions to raise a feral child were created, the child would not be Tarzan. Ras Tyger has many of the same attributes as Tarzan, but he was not Tarzan.
Having proven that Tarzan could not have existed did not deter Philip José Farmer from writing Tarzan Alive, his biography of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan. Tarzan Alive has been called a hoax biography of Tarzan, since it posited that Tarzan was a living person. Inspired by other fictional biographies such as W.S Baring-Gould’s Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street or C. Northcote Parkinson’s The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower, Farmer wanted to do something along the same lines for Tarzan. He wanted to create a biography that would be realistic enough to convey plausibility. This meant arguing that Burroughs’ Tarzan biographies were not literal truth but exaggerated fiction based on true events. In Lord Tyger Farmer demonstrated why it would be nearly impossible for a feral child like Tarzan to exist. In Tarzan Alive Farmer used the same sort of logic but with the intent to make Burroughs as true as possible yet still seem plausible enough to be believable. Tarzan Alive would also be a vehicle by which he could disseminate the concept of an extended family consisting primarily of fictitious characters.
Concurrent with Tarzan Alivecame another novel, Time’s Last Gift, which had a Tarzan like character in it. In this novel a group of scientists travel to 12,000 B.C. in the first time travel expedition.The team’s medical doctor was named John Gribardsun. It is gradually revealed in the book that this man was Tarzan. When the H. G. Wells returned to the future, Gribardsun, who was immortal, stayed behind to experience the past. Some fans believe that the initials of Times Last Gift, TLG, actually refer to Tarzan, Lord Greystoke. Time’s Last Gift may have been written as a stand alone piece written around the same time as Tarzan Alive. The dates of Gribardsun’s birth and his back-story are different enough from those in of Tarzan in Tarzan Alive so that they may have been meant to two entirely separate works. Or it may have been that Farmer was just being canny enough to make the characters dissimilar enough to avoid of the ire of the Jungle Lord for having revealed his most deeply held secret.
Building on the concepts that he created in Tarzan Alive, Philip José Farmer’s next use of Tarzan was in another fictional author story. The Adventure of the Peerless Peer, wherein Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson met Tarzan. Although this was not an official Tarzan novel, Farmer had gotten permission from the Burroughs estate to use the name of Greystoke. When this permission was withdrawn later he rewrote the story as The Adventure of the Three Madmen and substituted Mowgli for Tarzan.
Also appearing in that 1974 was Hadon of Opar, the first of Philip José Farmer projected series of Opar books. He planned to tell the history of Opar, the ruined city which plays so prominent a role in Burroughs’ Tarzan novels. Farmer additionally and unofficially planned to also tell the story of the lost African cities from H. Rider Haggard’s Quatermain and She series by creating writing the history of Khokarsa, a lost civilization that existed in Neolithic Africa. Tarzan also makes an appearance in Hadon of Opar, although entirely in the background. He is known as a god to the Khokarsans named Sahhindar. As explained in a previous article, Sahhindar is derived from Zantar, which was Burroughs first version of the Tarzan name. In the chronological appendix to Hadon of Opar specifically stated that the Tarzan like character from Time’s Last Gift was indeed Tarzan which is how Tarzan got to be in Hadon’s epoch. There was one further novel in the Opar series Flight to Opar before a variety of factors led to the series being discontinued.
Farmer wrote one more piece centering on Tarzan that came out in 1974 called Extracts from the Memoirs of “Lord Greystoke” This piece seems to have been an update of information previously discussed in Tarzan Alive but modified to coincide with “new information” posed by Time’s Last Gift and the Hadon series.
This was Tarzan’s last appearance in Farmer’s work until The Dark Heart of Time, which was an actual authorized Tarzan novel.
Philip José Farmer’s second favorite pulp character was Doc Savage. He appeared as Doc Caliban in Farmer’s A Feast Unknown and The Mad Goblin. However Farmer did not use Doc Savage to the same extent as he did Tarzan. Most of Doc’s appearances in Farmer’s work were limited to cameo roles rather than as central characters.
In 1973 Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life was published; this was Farmer’s biography of Doc Savage. While Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life continued with the conceits that Farmer had begun in Tarzan Alive, that Doc was a true living person and was part of a larger family tree of supposedly fictional people, the book was not as detailed in its approach. Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life seems a bit cursory when compared to Tarzan Alive but the fault lies more with the source material than with Philip José Farmer. The Tarzan saga consists of 26 volumes; Doc Savage’s consists of 181. If Farmer had truly attempted a definitive biography based on all 181 sagas, it would have taken his entire life.
Doc Savage made a cameo in his short story After King Kong Fell which was also published in 1973.
His next appearance in a published work was a parody cameo in “Great Heart Silver in Showdown at Shootout” in Weird Heroes Volume 1. 1975. Doc Savage with his two aides Monk and Ham as very old men were among those who participated in the pulp/adventure hero armageddon that took place in Shootout. Every conceivable character from the pulps and adventure fiction under parodied names fought a giant showdown that left them all dead.
An allusion to Doc Savage was made in Farmer’s translation of J. H. Rosny’s Ironcastle when it was mentioned that Clark Savage senior had designed some guns for Ironcastle.
Doc Savage appeared in two more of Farmer’s published works in disguise. In The Savage Shadow Doc and his cohorts appear as the alcoholic inmates of a sanitarium; what we would call a rehab clinic today. Author Kenneth Robeson is the main character of the story. The story is one of Farmer’s fictional author series, this one purportedly written by Maxwell Grant, the writer of The Shadow series. The story is meant to be Grant’s joking version of how Robeson came up with the idea for Doc Savage and his fabulous five. Other stories were planned by which Robeson and Grant would use version of each others characters in a variety of ways. However this was the only one published.
A disguised version of Doc Savage appeared in Philip José Farmer’s A Barnstormer in Oz in which one of the diminutive inhabitants of Oz named Sharts the Shirtless was a physical look a like of Doc Savage. The same size as Dorothy’s son Hank Stover, Sharts was a physical giant compared to the rest of Oz. Like Doc, Sharts was also a genius although he did not possess Doc Savage’s sense of morality. Sharts earned his name because he could not wear the clothing that would fit most inhabitants of Oz. It was also a tribute to the Bama covers of the Bantam Doc Savage series wherein Doc Savage was shown with a ripped shirt. Sharts’ constant companion was Blogo the Rare Beast, an apish humanoid that seemed to be this Oz’ version of Monk Mayfair.
Why Doc Savage did not make more appearances in Farmer’s work I cannot say for certain. It may be that Farmer was saving Doc for some of his major works which unfortunately remained either unpublished or unfinished. He wrote Doc Savage and the Cult of the Blue God, a screenplay for the second Doc Savage film which never came to fruition since the first one had bombed. He also began Monster On Hold which was to be another Doc Caliban novel. Another Doc Savage inspired property which Farmer unfinished, but which was completed in collaboration with Win Scott Eckert was The Evil of Pemberley House and published in 2009. This novel is about Doc Savage’s daughter, or at least the one postulated in Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life.
The last member of Philip José Farmer’s pulp trinity was The Shadow. Like Doc Savage the Shadow’s appearances were for the most part actual cameos or disguised appearances. Farmer made the Shadow, or rather Kent Allard a member of the Wold Newton Family that included Tarzan and Doc Savage. However he at first claimed that the Shadow, The Spider and G-8 were all one person with a multiple personality disorder. Farmer altered that theory for Doc Savage His Apocalyptic Life so that these three individuals were brothers rather than the same man.
The first cameo appearance by the Shadow appears to have been in “After King Kong Fell”. Margo Lane and Kent Allard are among those who viewed the carcass of King Kong.
He makes a more substantial cameo in The Adventure of the Peerless Peer. As a WW I aviator he encountered and saved the lives of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. In the revised version of the novel, The Adventure of the Three Madmen, he is one of the madmen in question.
The Shadow makes a disguised appearance in “Greatheart Silver in Showdown at Shootout” as Phwombly an old detective who teaches Greatheart Silver. He is among those who travel to and perish at Shootout. The character of Phwombly also appears in The New York Review of Bird, a story written by Harlan Ellison which was in the same issue of Weird Heroes as “Greatheart Silver in Showdown at Shootout” This story bears mentioning because as Ellison explains in his after word to the story, Philip José Farmer had a lot of influence on story since Ellison based much of the back story on Farmer’s genealogies in Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life. Ellison’s version of Phwombly however had different version of the relationship between Margo and Kent Allard.
Although The Savage Shadow does not have a cameo by The Shadow, it was certainly influenced by him. Although it is a story about Kenneth Robeson as written by Maxwell Grant there is also a reference to the Shadow series with the female lead Burke being related to the Shadow’s agent Clyde Burke.
The last actual appearance of the Shadow in Farmer’s works was in a cameo in “The Long Wet Dream of Rip Van Winkle”. Van Winkle wakes up in the 1930’s and encounters Margo Lane.
The Shadow’s influence on Philip José Farmer was also evident by Farmer’s story “Skinburn”.This introduced the private detective Kent Lane. Kent Lane was the son of Kent Allard, the Shadow and Margo Lane. Farmer intended to write a novel about Kent Lane entitled, Why Everybody Hates Me.This, and the unwritten biographies of Sir William Clayton, Allan Quatermain and Fu Manchu, are among those works his fans most regret never came to fruition.
The Pulp Trinity Chronology of appearances
1968 “The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod” 1968 (Tarzan)
1969 A Feast Unknown(Doc Savage, Tarzan)
1970 Lord Tyger(Tarzan)
1970 Lord of the Trees/Mad Goblin (Tarzan Doc Savage)
1972Tarzan Alive (Tarzan, Doc Savage, Shadow)
1972 Times Last Gift (Tarzan )
1972 “Skinburn” (Shadow)
1973 Doc Savage His Apocalyptic Life (Tarzan, Doc Savage, Shadow)
1973 “After King Kong Fell” (Doc Savage) Shadow and Margo Lane
1974Adventure of the Peerless Peer (Tarzan, Shadow)
1974 Hadon of Ancient Opar (Tarzan)
1974 “Extracts from the Memoirs of “Lord Greystoke”
1975 Greatheart Silver (Shadow) (Doc Savage sort of)
1975 Ironcastle (Doc Savage, Shadow)
1976 Flight to Opar (Tarzan)
1977 “Savage Shadow” (Doc Savage) (Shadow”
1981 “Long Wet Dream of Rip Van Winkle” (Shadow)
1982 A Barnstormer in Oz(Doc Savage and Monk)
1984 “Adventure of the Three Madmen”(Shadow)
1991 Escape From Loki (Doc Savage – Tarzan reference)
Fans of NCIS actress Pauley Perrette will welcome the opportunity to see more of her in the forthcoming film The Girl from Mars.
The Girl from Mars tells the story of a lonely geek whose life is transformed when he meets the girl of his dreams (Perrette) who claims to be a visitor from another planet.
The film is written and directed by DIY auteur James Felix McKenney, whose previous features include the retro sci-fi flick, Automatons and the upcoming Hypothermia from Dark Sky films starring Michael Rooker (The Walking Dead).
McKenney will be sharing producing chores with Lisa Wisely and Chase Tyler of Brooklyn, NY based The Work Room Productions.
The Director of Photography will be Eric Branco, who lensed both McKenney’s Hypothermia and Satan Hates You for New York-based production company Glass Eye Pix.
Says the director about working with Perrette, “We’ve wanted to do something with Pauley in the lead for quite a while now. She has such a powerful presence with so much energy and compassion, it’s infectious. Writing this part was all about trying to capture that combination of kindness and enthusiasm that makes Pauley so special as a person and distill it all into a character that audiences will really respond to.”
Syndication in the US and the international success of NCIS make Ms. Perrette a recognizable and beloved actress around the globe.
Production is scheduled to begin in Los Angeles in May 2011.
In 1972, Philip José Farmer created the Wold Newton Family with the publication of Tarzan Alive, where he postulated that many great heroes and villains of adventure fiction were all related.
This concept, that many different series were connected, has inspired writers like Howard Waldrop, Kim Newman, Alan Moore and Win Eckert. But one of the first to be influenced by Farmer was British Western writer J.T. Edson.
In many regards, Edson and Farmer have much in common. Both wrote primarily in genre fiction influenced by their formative reading. In the interview Philip Jose Farmer His Apocalyptic Life, Farmer refers to being “imprinted by certain heroes of my earlier reading, like Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, the Oz books in general. I was just 15 when I read the first Doc Savage,” page 23. Edson began his “acquaintance with the work of truly great escapist writers such as – in alphabetical order – Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert McCaig, Nelson C. Nye and Edgar Wallace. I also sat through hours of John Wayne, Randolph Scott, Errol Flynn and later, my all time favourite, Audie Murphy” J.T.’s Hundredth, page 19.
Farmer always wanted to write “a Tarzan, a Doc Savage novel, an Oz Novel and a Phineas [sic] Fogg novel” Farmer, HAL, page 22. Edson was given permission by Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc to publish the Bunduki novels as a spinoff of the Tarzan series and also by Penelope Wallace to use her father’s characters in his Company Z novels. J.T. Edson was born in 1928 and in 1946 joined the British Army, Royal Veterinary Corps as a dog trainer, where he served in Germany, Kenya, Malaya and Hong Kong. Edson started writing story notes in longhand in notebooks. A win at Tombola (bingo) whilst in Hong Kong provided the funds to purchase a typewriter. Upon his return to England, Edson took a writing course and heard about Brown Watson’s writing contest, where his Floating Outfit novel TrailBoss took second place and earnt him a book contract. TrailBoss was published in 1961 and Edson wrote a further forty-five books for Brown Watson before his contract was taken over by Corgi books in 1968. Whilst Edson had been trying to branch out from traditional westerns at Brown Watson, it was Corgi that allowed him the creative freedom he needed to fully explore the idea of an interconnected family of adventurers in a wider range of stories and genres.
EDSON’S SERIES The Floating Outfit Series – 65 books first published in 1961 The Floating Outfit series centres on the adventures of Dusty Fog, Mark Counter and Loncey Dalton Ysabel (The Ysabel Kid), who act as troubleshooters throughout the West. The trio are joined at various times by other members, such as Red Blaze, Waco and Doc Leroy, but the core of the Outfit is Dusty, Mark and The Ysabel Kid.
The Waco series– 7 Books first published 1963 Edson’s first spinoff series, where former Floating Outfit member, Waco joins the Arizona Rangers, and his adventures in later books where Waco becomes a U.S. Marshall
The Calamity Jane series – 12 books first published in 1965 Calamity Jane had appeared in a few of the Floating Outfit books and Edson felt that he could tell her adventures better than Hollywood and began to write a series of based on and inspired by the historical Calamity Jane.
The Civil War Series – 13 books first published in 1966 Throughout the Floating Outfit series Edson had referred to the Civil War service of Dusty Fog, and with this series he expanded and explored that time of Dusty’s life. The Rockabye County series – 11 books first published 1968 The first series started by Corgi books, but several characters had appeared earlier in a series of short stories in Victor magazine. Set in contemporary times, this series tells of the adventures of the Sheriff’s Office in a border county of Texas. The main characters of the series became Alice Fayde and her partner, Bradford Counter – the great grandson of Mark Counter of the Floating Outfit.
The Waxahachie Smith series – 3 books starting in 1971 A very young Waxahachie Smith had appeared in the Floating Outfit series and Edson had the character grow into a Texas Ranger who had his trigger fingers removed to stop him from hunting a criminal. Later books in the series guest starred a middle-aged Floating Outfit.
Bunduki series – 4 Books starting in 1975 Starting life as a new adventure of Tarzan and Jane, Edson was refused permission by Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc to write the novel. Upon reading Farmer’s Tarzan Alive, Edson devised a way to resurrect his plot featuring James Allenvale “Bunduki” Gunn, Tarzan’s adopted son and Dawn Drummond-Clayton, the granddaughter of Korak. Bunduki is the great grandson of Mark Counter and cousin to Bradford Counter. The series is set on the planet of Zillikan, where Bunduki and Dawn are brought to act as game keepers.
Ole Devil Hardin series– 5 Books starting in 1975 Ole Devil had previously appeared in both the Civil War and Floating Outfit series. This series gives Ole Devil a starring role, describing his involvement in the Texas War of Independence
Company Z series – 6 Books starting in 1977 The Company Z series featured the grandsons of the original Floating Outfit in an extra-legal company of Texas Rangers. Edson also used the series to reference the works of Edgar Wallace and three of the books serve as continuance of the Mr J.G. Reeder series.
THE WOLD NEWTON FAMILY AND THE HARDIN, BLAZE, FOG CLAN AND THE COUNTER FAMILY
As can be seen above, prior to 1975, Edson primarily took characters who had guest starred in his Floating Outfit series and spun them off into their own series, but the Rockabye County series hints that Edson was already starting to consider the possibility of utilising the concept of an adventurous family to expand the scope and range of stories he could tell.
After the 1972 publication of Tarzan Alive, all of Edson’s new series were about extended members of the Hardin, Blaze & Fog clan and the Counter Family, and increasingly, the new books in the existing series utilised these connections and referenced these new family members and their expanded background. For example, the Rockabye County novel The Sheriff of Rockabye County makes reference to Bunduki and his adopted father; Bunduki and Dawn received a visit from Sheriff Tragg and his wife in the short story ‘Accident or Murder’ in MoreJ. T.’s Ladies. The first Waxahachie Smith novel, SlipGun had no connections aside from an earlier guest appearance in the a Floating Outfit novel, but the later novels had guest appearance by various members of the Floating Outfit.
As Edson said [I have]“become hooked on the fictionalist genealogy style of writing perfected by Philip José Farmer. This allows me to tie in various of my Western characters with the protagonists of the ‘Bunduki’ series of books.” J. T. Edson, quoted in ContemporaryAuthorsOnline, 2001, The Gale Group. By 1979, Edson had expanded the Hardin, Blaze and Fog Families to the point that he was able to include a family tree in the front of J. T.’s Hundredth. Edson also features a number of other families throughout his series. Several members of the Tragg and Turtle family have appeared, or been referenced throughout; The Ole Devil Hardin, The Floating Outfit, Company Z and Rockabye County series as members of law enforcement and leaders of the criminal element respectively.
Also appearing throughout the various series have been members of the British Besgrove, Woodstole, and Houghton-Rand families, most notably Lady Winifred Besgrove-Woodstole who married Dusty Fog in the Floating Outfit series.
REFERENCES TO FARMER AND HIS SPECULATIONS
After 1975, Edson appeared to consult with Farmer over various genealogical questions and a number of footnotes began to reference this.
Bunduki (1975) opens with the author’s note: “I would also like to thank Philip José Farmer, whose book Tarzan Alive supplied much useful information and details of the Greystoke family’s lineage.” On page 15, Edson references The Greystoke Lineage, Appendix 3, Tarzan Alive.Page 38 references Korak’s relationship to Tarzan as revealed in Tarzan Alive. Bunduki and Dawn(1976) opens with the same author’s note.
Pages 53 to 54 reference Farmer’s Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life Doc’s analysis of the Kavuru tablets.
Page 142 “Ever since the fictional genealogist, Philip José Farmer, whom she [Dawn] had met whilst visiting the Counter family ranch in Texas, had told Dawn that Lady [Jane] Greystoke was related to the legendary Confederate State’s Secret Service agent, Belle Boyd, she had taken an interest in Savate.”
Sacrifice to the Quagga God (1976), the third Bunduki novel, is dedicated “To Philip Jose Farmer, the world’s foremost fictionist, genealogist,” and contains the same author’s note as Bunduki.
Set-A-Foot (1977) a Floating Outfit novel On page 180, the footnote mentions, “Neither the author nor fictionist genealogist Philip José Farmer with whom he consulted have been able to trace Waco’s family background beyond his adoption.”
The Remittance Kid (1978) a Calamity Jane novel On page 37, the footnote mentions that the researches of Philip José Farmer have established that Captain Patrick Reeder was the uncle of the famous detective, Mr Jerimiah Golden Reeder. Page 44 states that the researches of Farmer suggest that Lt Ed Ballinger’s grandson, Frank, held a similar position in the Chicago Police Department at a later date and his exploits formed the basis of the 1957 TV series M Squad.
On page 187, the footnote elaborates that, according to Famer’s researches, Belle Boyd was the grand-aunt of Jane, Lady Greystoke (this footnote appeared in all subsequent books where Belle Boyd appeared most recently in Mississippi Raider, 1996).
J. T.’s Hundredth (1979) On pages 335 to 337, Edson discusses the origin of the Bunduki series and the importance of TarzanAlive to the process. He also mention that Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc had revoked permission to make reference to Tarzan in future volumes.
Fearless Master of the Jungle (1980) the fourth Bunduki novel
Author’s note: “I would like to thank Philip José Farmer for the permission he has granted allowing me to make use of his characters, Lady Hazel and Sir Armond John Drummond-Clayton.” The Justice of Company Z(1980) The page 76 footnote indicates that Farmer’s researches show that Wilfred Plant was descended from the illegitimate daughter of a scullery maid and Uriah Heep from Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield.
The Return of Rapido Clint and Mr J.G. Reeder (1984) a Company Z novel The page 144 footnote refers to the fact neither Edson or Farmer were unable to find a connection between a gangster named Robin Hood and the earlier bearer of the name.
Diamonds, Emeralds, Cards and Colts (1986) A Floating Outfit novel The footnote on pages 198 and 199 explains that Farmer’s researches have shown that there are two lady outlaws known as Belle Starr. The Counter family have asked that Edson and Farmer keep the true identity of the woman who appears in Edson’s novels a secret (this footnote also appeared in later works were Belle Starr appeared).
Decision for Dusty Fog (1986) A Floating Outfit Novel
On page 166, the researches of Farmer have identified that the character referred to as ‘Matt’ and ‘the Big D’ was Marshall Matt Dillon from Gunsmoke. The Code of Dusty Fog(1988) A Floating Outfit Novel Pages 48 to 49 show that, despite the fact Edmund Fagin does not resemble the Fagin who appeared in Oliver Twist, Farmer’s research has shown Edmund was his grandson. Mark Counter’s Kin (1990) On page 145, Farmer’s researches have established that Jessica Front de Boeuf and her son, Trudeau are descended from Sir Reginald Front de Boeuf, who appeared in Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott. REFERENCES IN FARMER TO EDSON In Philip José Farmer’s The Lavalite World (1977) “My thanks to J.T. Edson, author of the Dusty Fog sagas, for his kind permission to integrate the Texas Fogs with the British Foggs. — Philip José Farmer.” dedication to TheLavaliteWorld.
On page 68, when Paul Janus ‘Kickaha’ Finnegan is reviewing his family tree, Roxana Fogg “also met some of the relatives there, including the famous Confederate war hero and Western gunfighter, Dustine ‘Dusty’ Edward Marsden Fog. She was introduced to Hardin Blaze Fog, several years younger than herself. They fell in love.”
CONCLUSION In 1972, Philip José Farmer published Tarzan Alive, where he postulated that many pulp and adventure heroes like Tarzan, Doc Savage, Sherlock Holmes, The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Shadow were all part of the same family that Farmer referred to as the Wold Newton Family. This concept of a family of adventurers and an interconnected series of exploits was very influential.
In 1975, J.T. Edson built on Farmer’s theories for his Bunduki series and expanded his own Hardin Blaze and Fog clan and Counter families with several new series Bunduki, Ole Devil Hardin and Company Z series, increasing the interconnections between all of his series. Edson also began to reference Farmer’s genealogical research in his novels. Farmer acknowledged this in one of his novels by referencing one of Edson’s characters Dusty Fog and making him a distant relative of the Wold Newton Family.
REFERENCES Edson, J.T. J.T.’s HundredthCorgi Books 1979 Farmer, Philip José The Lavalite World Ballentine Books 1977 “J.T. Edson”Contemporary Authors Gale Group 2001 Murray, Will ‘Philip José Farmer His Apocalyptic Life’ in Starlog June 1990
Expanding the Wold Newton Concept: J.T. Edson By Brad Mengel In 1972, Philip José Farmer created the Wold Newton Family with the publication of Tarzan Alive, where he postulated that many great heroes and villains of adventure fiction were all related. This concept, that many different series were connected, has inspired writers like Howard Waldrop, Kim Newman, Alan Moore and Win Eckert. But one of the first to be influenced by Farmer was British Western writer J.T. Edson. In many regards, Edson and Farmer have much in common. Both wrote primarily in genre fiction influenced by their formative reading. In the interview Philip Jose Farmer His Apocalyptic Life, Farmer refers to being Farmer always wanted to write J.T. Edson was born in 1928 and in 1946 joined the British Army, Royal Veterinary Corps as a dog trainer, where he served in Germany, Kenya, Malaya and Hong Kong. Edson started writing story notes in longhand in notebooks. A win at Tombola (bingo) whilst in Hong Kong provided the funds to purchase a typewriter. Upon his return to England, Edson took a writing course and heard about Brown Watson EDSONThe Floating Outfit Series The Floating Outfit series centres on the adventures of Dusty Fog, Mark Counter and Loncey Dalton Ysabel (The Ysabel Kid), who act as troubleshooters throughout the West. The trio are joined at various times by other members, such as Red Blaze, Waco and Doc Leroy, but the core of the Outfit is Dusty, Mark and The Ysabel Kid.
The Waco series Edson The Calamity Jane series Calamity Jane had appeared in a few of the Floating Outfit books and Edson felt that he could tell her adventures better than Hollywood and began to write a series of based on and inspired by the historical Calamity Jane. The Civil War Series Throughout the Floating Outfit series Edson had referred to the Civil War service of Dusty Fog, and with this series he expanded and explored that time of Dusty The Rockabye County series – 11 books first published 1968 The first series started by Corgi books, but several characters had appeared earlier in a series of short stories in Victor magazine. Set in contemporary times, this series tells of the adventures of the Sheriff The Waxahachie Smith series A very young Waxahachie Smith had appeared in the Floating Outfit series and Edson had the character grow into a Texas Ranger who had his trigger fingers removed to stop him from hunting a criminal. Later books in the series guest starred a middle-aged Floating Outfit. Bunduki series Starting life as a new adventure of Tarzan and Jane, Edson was refused permission by Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc to write the novel. Upon reading Farmer The series is set on the planet of Zillikan, where Bunduki and Dawn are brought to act as game keepers.
Ole Devil Hardin series Ole Devil had previously appeared in both the Civil War and Floating Outfit series. This series gives Ole Devil a starring role, describing his involvement in the Texas War of Independence Company Z series The Company Z series featured the grandsons of the original Floating Outfit in an extra-legal company of Texas Rangers. Edson also used the series to reference the works of Edgar Wallace and three of the books serve as continuance of the Mr J.G. Reeder series. THE WOLD NEWTON FAMILY AND THE HARDIN, BLAZE, FOG CLAN AND THE COUNTER FAMILYAs can be seen above, prior to 1975, Edson primarily took characters who had guest starred in his Floating Outfit series and spun them off into their own series, but the Rockabye County series hints that Edson was already starting to consider the possibility of utilising the concept of an adventurous family to expand the scope and range of stories he could tell. After the 1972 publication of Tarzan Alive, all of Edson As Edson said [I have] By 1979, Edson had expanded the Hardin, Blaze and Fog Families to the point that he was able to include a family tree in the front of J. T.Edson also features a number of other families throughout his series. Several members of the Tragg and Turtle family have appeared, or been referenced throughout, The Ole Devil Hardin, The Floating Outfit, Company Z and Rockabye County series as members of law enforcement and leaders of the criminal element respectively. Also appearing throughout the various series have been members of the British Besgrove, Woodstole, and Houghton-Rand families, most notably Lady Winifred Besgrove-Woodstole who married Dusty Fog in the Floating Outfit series. REFERENCES TO FARMER AND HIS SPECULATIONSAfter 1975, Edson appeared to consult with Farmer over various genealogical questions and a number of footnotes began to reference this. Bunduki (1975) opens with the author“imprinted by certain heroes of my earlier reading, like Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, the Oz books in general. I was just 15 when I read the first Doc Savage,” page 23. Edson began his “acquaintance with the work of truly great escapist writers such as – in alphabetical order – Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert McCaig, Nelson C. Nye and Edgar Wallace. I also sat through hours of John Wayne, Randolph Scott, Errol Flynn and later, my all time favourite, Audie Murphy” J.T.’s Hundredth, “a Tarzan, a Doc Savage novel, an Oz Novel and a Phineas [sic] Fogg novel” Farmer, HAL, page 22. Edson was given permission by Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc to publish the Bunduki novels as a spinoff of the Tarzan series and also by Penelope Wallace to use her father’s characters in his Company Z novels.’s writing contest, where his Floating Outfit novel TrailBoss took second place and earnt him a book contract. TrailBoss was published in 1961 and Edson wrote a further forty-five books for Brown Watson before his contract was taken over by Corgi books in 1968. Whilst Edson had been trying to branch out from traditional westerns at Brown Watson, it was Corgi that allowed him the creative freedom he needed to fully explore the idea of an interconnected family of adventurers in a wider range of stories and genres.’S SERIES– 65 books first published in 1961– 7 Books first published 1963’s first spinoff series, where former Floating Outfit member, Waco joins the Arizona Rangers, and his adventures in later books where Waco becomes a U.S. Marshall.– 12 books first published in 1965– 13 books first published in 1966’s life.’s Office in a border county of Texas. The main characters of the series became Alice Fayde and her partner, Bradford Counter – the great grandson of Mark Counter of the Floating Outfit.– 3 books starting in 1971– 4 Books starting in 1975’s Tarzan Alive, Edson devised a way to resurrect his plot featuring James Allenvale “Bunduki” Gunn, Tarzan’s adopted son and Dawn Drummond-Clayton, the granddaughter of Korak. Bunduki is the great grandson of Mark Counter and cousin to Bradford Counter.– 5 Books starting in 1975– 6 Books starting in 1977’s new series were about extended members of the Hardin, Blaze & Fog clan and the Counter Family, and increasingly, the new books in the existing series utilised these connections and referenced these new family members and their expanded background. For example, the Rockabye County novel The Sheriff of Rockabye County makes reference to Bunduki and his adopted father; Bunduki and Dawn received a visit from Sheriff Tragg and his wife in the short story ‘Accident or Murder’ in MoreJ. T.. The first Waxahachie Smith novel, SlipGun had no connections aside from an earlier guest appearance in the a Floating Outfit novel, but the later novels had guest appearance by various members of the Floating Outfit.’s Ladies“become hooked on the fictionalist genealogy style of writing perfected by Philip José Farmer. This allows me to tie in various of my Western characters with the protagonists of the ‘Bunduki’ series of books.” J. T. Edson, quoted in ContemporaryAuthorsOnline, 2001, The Gale Group.’s Hundredth.’s note: “I would also like to thank Philip José Farmer, whose book TarzanAlive supplied much useful information and details of the Greystoke family’s lineage.”On page 15, Edson references The Greystoke Lineage, Appendix 3, Tarzan Alive. Page 38 references Korak Bunduki and Dawn Pages 53 to 54 reference Farmer Page 142 (1976) opens with the same author’s relationship to Tarzan as revealed in Tarzan Alive.’s note.’s Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life Doc’s analysis of the Kavuru tablets.“Ever since the fictional genealogist, Philip José Farmer, whom she [Dawn] had met whilst visiting the Counter family’s ranch in Texas, had told Dawn that Lady [Jane] Greystoke was related to the legendary Confederate State’s Secret Service agent, Belle Boyd, she had taken an interest in Savate.”Sacrifice to the Quagga God Set-A-Foot On page 180, the footnote mentions, (1977) a Floating Outfit novel“To Philip Jose Farmer, the world’s foremost fictionist, genealogist,” and contains the same author’s note as Bunduki.“Neither the author nor fictionist genealogist Philip José Farmer with whom he consulted have been able to trace Waco’s family background beyond his adoption.”The Remittance Kid On page 37, the footnote mentions that the researches of Philip José Farmer have established that Captain Patrick Reeder was the uncle of the famous detective, Mr Jerimiah Golden Reeder. Page 44 states that the researches of Farmer suggest that Lt Ed Ballinger On page 187, the footnote elaborates that, according to Famer J. T. On pages 335 to 337, Edson discusses the origin of the Bunduki series and the importance of TarzanAlive to the process. He also mention that Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc had revoked permission to make reference to Tarzan in future volumes. Fearless Master of the Jungle Author(1980) the fourth Bunduki novel(1979)’s grandson, Frank, held a similar position in the Chicago Police Department at a later date and his exploits formed the basis of the 1957 TV series M Squad.’s researches, Belle Boyd was the grand-aunt of Jane, Lady Greystoke (this footnote appeared in all subsequent books where Belle Boyd appeared most recently in Mississippi Raider, 1996).’s Hundredth ’s note: “I would like to thank Philip José Farmer for the permission he has granted allowing me to make use of his characters, Lady Hazel and Sir Armond John Drummond-Clayton.”The Justice of Company Z The page 76 footnote indicates that Farmer Charles Dickens The Return of Rapido Clint and Mr J.G. Reeder The page 144 footnote refers to the fact neither Edson or Farmer were unable to find a connection between a gangster named Robin Hood and the earlier bearer of the name. Diamonds, Emeralds, Cards and Colts The footnote on pages 198 and 199 explains that Farmer Decision for Dusty Fog On page 166, the researches of Farmer have identified that the character referred to as The Code of Dusty Fog Pages 48 to 49 show that, despite the fact Edmund Fagin does not resemble the Fagin who appeared in Oliver Twist, Farmer Mark Counter On page 145, Farmer
REFERENCES IN FARMER TO EDSONIn Philip José Farmer(1990)(1986) A Floating Outfit Novel (1986) A Floating Outfit novel(1984) a Company Z novel’s researches show that Wilfred Plant was descended from the illegitimate daughter of a scullery maid and Uriah Heep from ’David Copperfield.’s researches have shown that there are two lady outlaws known as Belle Starr. The Counter family have asked that Edson and Farmer keep the true identity of the woman who appears in Edson’s novels a secret (this footnote also appeared in later works were Belle Starr appeared).‘Matt’ and ‘the Big D’ was Marshall Matt Dillon from Gunsmoke.(1988) A Floating Outfit Novel’s research has shown Edmund was his grandson.’s Kin ’s researches have established that Jessica Front de Boeuf and her son, Trudeau are descended from Sir Reginald Front de Boeuf, who appeared in Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott.’s The Lavalite World (1977) “My thanks to J.T. Edson, author of the Dusty Fog sagas, for his kind permission to integrate the Texas Fogs with the British Foggs. — Philip José Farmer.” dedication to TheLavaliteWorld.On page 68, when Paul Janus ‘Kickaha’ Finnegan is reviewing his family tree, Roxana Fogg “also met some of the relatives there, including the famous Confederate war hero and Western gunfighter, Dustine ‘Dusty’ Edward Marsden Fog. She was introduced to Hardin Blaze Fog, several years younger than herself. They fell in love.”CONCLUSIONIn 1972, Philip José Farmer published Tarzan Alive, where he postulated that many pulp and adventure heroes like Tarzan, Doc Savage, Sherlock Holmes, The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Shadow were all part of the same family that Farmer referred to as the Wold Newton Family. This concept of a family of adventurers and an interconnected series of exploits was very influential. In 1975, J.T. Edson built on Farmer REFERENCESEdson, J.T. J.T.Corgi Books 1979 Farmer, Philip José The Lavalite World Ballentine Books 1977’s theories for his Bunduki series and expanded his own Hardin Blaze and Fog clan and Counter families with several new series Bunduki, Ole Devil Hardin and Company Z series, increasing the interconnections between all of his series. Edson also began to reference Farmer’s genealogical research in his novels. Farmer acknowledged this in one of his novels by referencing one of Edson’s characters Dusty Fog and making him a distant relative of the Wold Newton Family.’s Hundredth “ Murray, Will J.T. Edson”Contemporary Authors Gale Group 2001‘Philip José Farmer His Apocalyptic Life’ in Starlog June 1990(1980)(1978) a Calamity Jane novel(1976), the third Bunduki novel, is dedicated page 19.
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