Series
Dr. Fu Manchu
Sax Rohmer · 13 novels · 1 novella · 5 short stories · 1 collection · 1913–1973
Sax Rohmer's long-running series introduced Dr. Fu Manchu, a criminal mastermind whose recurring clashes with the British agents pursuing him made him one of the most widely adapted villains of early 20th-century fiction. Beginning with The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu in 1913 and continuing across thirteen further novels into the 1950s, the series is also a product of its era's anxieties, built on the ethnic-menace stereotypes typical of the pulp thrillers it helped define.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(8 editions)
Map
Dr. Fu Manchu at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1910s5
- 1920s0
- 1930s6
- 1940s2
- 1950s6
- 1960s0
- 1970s1
Shape
13 novels · 1 novella · 5 short stories · 1 collection
1 author · completed series
reads like:thriller & suspensepolitical intrigueour worldearly 20th centurytenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 93% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book15 of 20 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Devil Doctordarkest · calmest
- Shadow of Fu Manchubrightest
- The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchumost intense