In the 1920s and 1930s, due to the influence of the two most popular adventure writers of the era, T
In the 1920s and 1930s, due to the influence of the two most popular adventure writers of the era, Talbot Mundy and Harold Lamb (both published in Adventure, the greatest magazine of the age behind the Argosy), a genre of pulp mag emerged known as the Oriental Adventure, focused on the Arabian Nights, the East, China, and the Silk Road. The two magazines behind it were Magic Carpet and Oriental Stories, which were nearly all Weird Tales people: Hugh B. Cave, Seabury Quinn (not well known today, but maybe the biggest name at the time), Robert E. Howard (who was transitioning away from horror/fantasy), and of course, Otis Adelbert Kline, Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Sword & Planet rival, Gobots to Burroughs’s Transformers. The most memorable thing about these pulps today are the covers by Margaret Brundage. Part of the reason the genre was so popular is that it was a way to have sex in stories. -- source link
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