"Imagine a person, tall, lean, and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan...". London, 1933—the era of World War II and global chaos. A time of shadows, secret societies, and dens filled with opium addicts. Into this world comes the most fantastic emissary of evil society has ever known... Fu-Manchu. A mysterious epidemic appears on the French Riviera. When the French authorities call upon Dr. Petrie, his discoveries cause him to summon Sir Denis Nayland-Smith. For their eternal foe, Dr. Fu-Manchu, is now trafficking in the deadliest form of biological warfare.summoned to help stop his arch-foe before he can succeed in spreading his plague across Europe.

After discovering the tomb of El Mokanna—the Veiled Prophet—and retrieving the precious relics buried there, the eminent archaeologist Sir Lionel Barton blows up the tomb. The heretic sect faithful to Mokanna interpret the fireball as their prophet’s second coming, and a violent uprising begins. Meanwhile, the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu senses an opportunity to use the powerful relics for his own evil ends. The action stretches from Persia to Cairo, then back to London, including an extraordinary confrontation inside of the Great Pyramid. Along the way his opponents face Ogboni killers, mind-control drugs, dervishes, and a “ghost mosque.”

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Mask of Fu Manchu" by Arthur Henry Ward. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

A new edition of the who's who of over 1,400 fictional characters whose names are sometimes so familiar it's difficult to remember they're imaginary. Included in the biographical parade is Ben Casey, Casper, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a compendium of high, low, and no brow at all, each exactly recorded with a snippet of biographical anecdote. The reference is as equally useful for scholarly work as it is for killing time in aimless pursuits of information. Distributed by Ashgate. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

For every would-be sleuth and armchair detective, Encyclopedia Mysteriosa is the complete reference to the entire genre of murder and mayhem.

A study of the villain in detective fiction and film. It examines such questions as what the villains reflect about the heroes, what they reflect about society, and what defines villainous activity. The texts range from Charles Brockden Brown's "Weiland" (1798) to the film "Seven" (1995).

From the grindhouse oddities to major studio releases, this work details 46 horror films released during the genre's golden era. Each entry includes cast and credits, a plot synopsis, in-depth critical analysis, contemporary reviews, time of release, brief biographies of the principal cast and crew, and a production history. Apart from the 46 main entries, 71 additional "borderline horrors" are examined and critiqued in an appendix.

Presents critical studies of more than 270 authors of detective and mystery fiction from around the world dating from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day.