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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A Piece to a Larger PuzzleBy KittypieAt the age of 16, Talbot Mundy ran away to Africa and then spent more than a decade living there. India and the middle East. like his great character; Jim Grim, his facility for learning languages allowed him to serve the British Empire as a spy during World War 1. He writes with great authenticity about the time and region. He became a convert to Theosophy through his wife and as diabetes caused his health to deteriorate the intensity of this faith increased. He connected almost all of his non-historical novels into one large story arc in which the more interesting characters from the earlier works are united by the American billionaire, Meldrum Strange, to oppose the schemes of the mysterious "9 immortal masters" of the Theosophical faith, to destroy the West and set up a global empire with an Asian capital. Towards this end they plan on using mystical sciences so advanced that they might be considered magic. Talbot Mundy is almost forgotten now but in his works you see ideas used with more lasting success by Sax Rohmer in his Fu Manchu books and Ian Fleming in his James Bond novels that Mundy's work influenced. In this novel, a character who seems a sinister version of Ghandi; gives two agents of the Strange organisation a frightening tour of a cave beneath an Indian palace and temple where the mystical science of the East is being researched and weaponized. Many story seeds are planted for later books but few are brought to fruition. One of Mundy's best characters, the Princess Yasmini, and her army of proto-feminist Hindu women appear. Because the novel is part of a larger story arc, it feels incomplete. Most, but not all, of these novels are in the public domain and with some diligence they can be found on line in electronic form1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Twisted Enjoyment.By JCSBrilliant. Talbot Mundy weaves a dark tale of horrors discovered in a network of caves. This is a fast paced adventure and not for the light of heart. It is called "Caves of Terror" for a reason and it holds true to its name. If H.P. Lovecraft is a writer you know and enjoy, I would recommend this book, because the situations described are a bit on the dark and twisted side of writing.9 of 11 people found the following review helpful. A brilliant, almost classic, tale of harrowing fantasy in the style of Edgar Allan PoeBy Brian TavesCaves of Terror was a landmark in Talbot Mundy's career, fully revealing his incorporation of fantasy to facilitate the presentation of Eastern philosophy. Precisely what caused him to veer into this new mode is unknown; his discovery of theosophy was still more than a year in the future, and previous hints of the occult had only been a secondary theme, as in King--of the Khyber Rifles and The Mystery of Khufu's Tomb. (There is more on Mundy's writing career in my book, Talbot Mundy: Philosopher of Adventure, by Brian Taves.) The shift represented a fundamental departure from Mundy's previous writing. Such works as "The Soul of a Regiment," Rung Ho!, The Winds of the World, Hira Singh, and The Eye of Zeitoon belong to the time before the disillusionment of World War I changed literary conceptions of heroism, military ethics, and colonialism. Adventure has a logic of limitations, whose situations no matter how unlikely still could be true. Fantasy is not its extension, but its antithesis. Adventure, taking place in the past or present, remains within the physically possible despite improbability or unlikelihood, while in fantasy the characters exceed human reach through access to supernatural forces. The violation of the bounds of physical reality are fantasy's motif and narrative highlight, as the larger-than-life hero undergoes mystical experiences. These range from the gods in the tradition of Homer and Greco-Roman mythology, to the genies and magic found in the Arabian Nights--making fantasy ideal for Mundy's new focus on occult forces in India and Tibet. Caves of Terror originally appeared under the title The Gray Mahatma in the November 10, 1922 issue of Adventure. Despite deviating from the norm in Adventure, the story was readily accepted, readers voting it their favorite novel of the year, and such approval may have encouraged Mundy to continue in this vein. While reuniting King and Yasmini for the only time after King--of the Khyber Rifles, Caves of Terror simultaneously links King with Mundy's recent Jimgrim novels by having Meldrum Strange send Jeff Ramsden to work with him. However, at the center is the figure represented by the original title, The Grey Mahatma. This is the first of Mundy's fantasies centered on a Westerner's quest for indigenous magic, and using a sage-like Indian priest. He is absolutely unsentimental about human life, but is also intensely human, wisdom not having robbed him of friendliness, "the common touch," or a sense of fun. A man of both East and West, he holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, but found no man in the United States worthy of trusting with the rudiments of Indian science. Caves of Terror offers Mundy's vision of the Inferno as the Grey Mahatma leads King and Ramsden through hellish caverns where the secret science of India is practiced. These become not only literal, but a series of Dante-esque steps into a phantasmagoric region, as the Mahatma reveals to King and Ramsden practices never before seen by Western eyes. They see the Indian religious philosophy in its totality, both its vast possibilities, and its pitfalls, leading to self-torture. Caves of Terror becomes a fictional explication of Mundy's belief "that, while many of the native magicians are frauds and charlatans, some of them really possess 'occult' powers that truly come under the heading of magic--in the sense that science has not yet explained them or explained them away." Superstition serves merely to protect the secrets, from both the uncomprehending eyes of the ignorant masses or the interference of colonial governments. The Mahatma believes India and the entire East are emerging from the end of Kali-Yug, the age of darkness. For Yasmini this implies that India, rising from the shackles of colonialism, can use her secrets to harness the power of mob violence and subjugate the West. For Mundy, King, and the mystical Grey Mahatma, the close of Kali-Yug has a more positive meaning, Indian independence and freedom. King has been chosen to carry this message to the United States. The Mahatma unselfishly refuses to be saved by King and Ramsden, or by Yasmini for her own purposes, and together King and the Mahatma dash her plans for conquest. Caves of Terror is one of Mundy's most unconventional works, both for its relative brevity (barely novel length) and the self-effacing manner in which it deals with profound questions. The tight structure is part of what makes it so perfectly formed and highly disciplined, with each chapter a movement in the drama. A multi-layered work, like an Edgar Allan Poe story, the surface emphasis on morbid thrills covers a deeper meditation on the mysteries of life. Caves of Terror is also unforgettable through its picturesque, highly visual, almost surrealistic style, and is one of Mundy's most unusual and extraordinary novels.

Talbot Mundy was an early 20th century English-American author who wrote several popular adventure books that were read by young and old alike.

About the AuthorDuring Mundy's career his work was often compared with that of his more commercially successful contemporaries, H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling, although unlike their work his adopted an anti-colonialist stance and expressed a positive interest in Eastern religion and philosophy.

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