Lester Dent Books In Order
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The Man of Bronze | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Land of Terror | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Quest of the Spider | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Polar Treasure | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pirate of the Pacific | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Red Skull | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lost Oasis | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sargasso Ogre | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Czar of Fear | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Phantom City | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Brand of the Werewolf | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man Who Shook the Earth | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Meteor Menace | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Monsters | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mystery on the Snow | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The King Maker | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Thousand-Headed Man | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Squeaking Goblin | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fear Cay | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death in Silver | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sea Magician | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Annihilist | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mystic Mullah | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Red Snow | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Land of Always-Night | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Spook Legion / The Ghost Legion | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Secret in the Sky | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Roar Devil | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Quest of Qui | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Spook Hole | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Majii | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dust of Death | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder Melody | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fantastic Island | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder Mirage | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mystery Under the Sea | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Metal Master | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Men Who Smiled No More | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Seven Agate Devils | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Haunted Ocean | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Black Spot | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Midas Man | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cold Death | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The South Pole Terror | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Resurrection Day | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Vanisher | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Land of Long Juju | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Derrick Devil | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mental Wizard | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Terror in the Navy | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mad Eyes | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Land of Fear | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
He Could Stop the World | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Magic Island / Ost | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Feathered Octopus | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Repel / The Deadly Dwarf | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Golden Peril | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Living-Fire Menace | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mountain Monster | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Devil on the Moon | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pirate's Ghost | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Motion Menace | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Submarine Mystery | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Giggling Ghosts | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Munitions Master | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Red Terrors | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fortress of Solitude | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Green Death | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Devil Genghis | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mad Mesa | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Yellow Cloud | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Freckled Shark | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
World's Fair Goblin | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gold Ogre | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Flaming Falcons | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Merchants of Disaster | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Crimson Serpent | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Poison Island | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Stone Man | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hex | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dagger in the Sky | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Other World | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Angry Ghost | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Spotted Men | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Evil Gnome | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Boss of Terror | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Awful Egg | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Flying Goblin | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tunnel Terror | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Purple Dragon | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Devils of the Deep | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Awful Dynasty | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Men Vanished | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Devil's Playground | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bequest of Evil | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The All-White Elf | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Golden Man | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pink Lady | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Headless Men | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Green Eagle | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mystery Island | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mindless Monsters | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Birds of Death | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Invisible Box Murders | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Peril in the North | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Rustling Death | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Men of Fear | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Too-Wise Owl | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Magic Forest | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pirate Isle | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Speaking Stone | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man Who Fell Up | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Three Wild Men | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fiery Menace | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Laugh of Death | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
They Died Twice | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Devil's Black Rock | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Time Terror | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Waves of Death | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Black, Black Witch | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The King of Terror | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Talking Devil | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Running Skeletons | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mystery on Happy Bones | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mental Monster | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hell Below | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Goblins | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Secret of the Su | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Spook of Grandpa Eden | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
According to Plan of a One-Eyed Mystic | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Had Yellow Eyes | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Derelict of Skull Shoal | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Whisker of Hercules | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Three Devils | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pharaoh's Ghost | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man Who Was Scared | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Shape of Terror | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Weird Valley | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jiu San | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Satan Black | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lost Giant | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Violent Night / The Hate Genius | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Strange Fish | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ten Ton Snakes | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cargo Unknown | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rock Sinister | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Terrible Stork | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
King Joe Cay | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wee Ones | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Terror Takes 7 | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Thing That Pursued | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Trouble on Parade | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Screaming Man | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Measures for a Coffin | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Se-Pah-Poo | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Terror and the Lonely Widow | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Five Fathoms Dead | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death is a Round Black Spot | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Colors for Murder | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fire and Ice | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Three Times a Corpse | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Exploding Lake | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death in Little Houses | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Devil is Jones | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Disappearing Lady | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Target for Death | (1947) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Death Lady | (1947) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Danger Lies East | (1947) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
No Light to Die By | (1947) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Monkey Suit | (1947) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Let's Kill Ames | (1947) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Once Over Lightly | (1947) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I Died Yesterday | (1948) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pure Evil | (1948) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Terror Wears No Shoes | (1948) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Angry Canary | (1948) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Swooning Lady | (1948) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Green Master | (1949) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Return From Cormoral | (1949) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Up From Earth's Center | (1949) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Red Spider | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Dead at the Take-Off | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady to Kill | (1947) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady Afraid | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cry at Dusk | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lady in Peril | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hades & Hocus Pocus | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sinister Ray | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Honey in his Mouth | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Genius Jones | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Library Collections
Hell's Hoofprints: The Complete Western Trails Tales of Lester Dent | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dead Men's Bones: The Air Adventure Stories of Lester Dent | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Skull Squadron: The Air War Stories of Lester Dent | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fists of Fury: The Adventures of Curt Flagg | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Terror, Inc.: The Weird Mysteries of Lent Dent | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Lester Dent's Zeppelin Tales | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Weird Adventures Of The Blond Adder | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Radio Western Adventures | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hell in Boxes: The Exploits of Lynn Lash and Foster Fade | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Doc Savage Collections
Publication Order of Wild Adventures Of Pat Savage Books
Publication Order of The Avenger Books
Justice, Inc. | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Yellow Hoard | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sky Walker | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Devil's Horns | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Frosted Death | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Blood Ring | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stockholders in Death | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Glass Mountain | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tuned for Murder | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Smiling Dogs | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
River of Ice | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Flame Breathers | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder on Wheels | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Three Gold Crowns | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
House of Death | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hate Master | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nevlo | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death in Slow Motion | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pictures of Death | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Green Killer | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Happy Killers | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Black Death | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wilder Curse | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Midnight Murder | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Man From Atlantis | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Red Moon | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Purple Zombie | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dr. Time | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Nightwitch Devil | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black Chariots | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cartoon Crimes | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Blood Countess | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Death Machine | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Glass Man | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Iron Skull | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Demon Island | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Roaring Heart of the Crucible | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Wild Adventures Of Doc Savage Books
Python Isle | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
White Eyes | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Frightened Fish | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Jade Ogre | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Flight into Fear | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Whistling Wraith | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Forgotten Realm | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Desert Demons | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Horror in Gold | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Infernal Buddha | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death's Dark Domain | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Miracle Menace | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Skull Island | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Phantom Lagoon | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The War Makers | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ice Genius | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sinister Shadow | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Secret of Satan's Spine | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Glare of the Gorgon | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Empire of Doom | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mr. Calamity | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Famous Fantastic Mysteries | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black Mask | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thrilling Adventure Yarns | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Miami Noir | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lester Dent is an American author of fiction. He was born October 4, 1904, in La Plata, Missouri. He is also known for his writings under the pen name Kenneth Robeson.
Dent initially was going to be a banker and intended to go to school for business. However, when he was standing in line in order to apply, he found out that telegraph operators made more than bankers and decided to switch to telegraphy. But while working for the A.P. he discovered that writers made a lot by writing stories for pulp magazines and started writing stories during slow hours.
He began writing for Dell Publishing exclusively for $500 a month. However, Dell ended their pulp magazine run. From there he moved to N.Y.C. and it is there that he worked with Henry Ralston to develop the Doc Savage Magazine. Ralston was the head of a leading pulp publisher called Street and Smith and had contacted Dent about the idea of writing a magazine about an adventure hero. Like his Dell deal, Dent got $500 and later $750 per novel.
Their magazine ran for sixteen years, from 1933 to 1949. In that time, it published 181 novel-length stories. The majority of these were written by Lester Dent himself under the pen name of Kenneth Robeson. He composed 159 novel-length stories over the course of those years. One of these stories involved the creation of his famous character Doc Savage, a superhuman scientist and adventurer, of which he was the main author. Dent passed away March 11, 1959.
Doc Savage is known for being a genius as well as one of the most remarkable living man. His intellect is only surpassed by his great physical strength. He was trained from birth to be fantastic at science and pursue it as a career. He is described as a strange individual, which makes sense. He is not anything like a normal man his age would be. All of his training combined to make him smarter and stronger than others.
Savage was a product of science that had been entered into a structured life of training ever since he was born and was young. This genius had spent two hours a day doing intense exercises that would help his muscles develop but also would help with his mental sharpness and physical senses. He had studied all areas when he was young as well, trades, professions, sciences, and more, to achieve a knowledge that was far above average. Now Savage protects those who cannot protect themselves.
Dent also released mystery novels in many genres. One was the Chance Molloy series, which featured an airline owner that was entirely self-made. Dent’s life was pretty adventurous as well, as he had done everything from treasure hunting in the Caribbean to living on a schooner for years and prospecting in the Southwest for gold as well as starting up an aerial photography company and belonging to the Explorer’s Club.
He has written many standalone novels as well as collaborated with other authors on other works. His short stories have also been featured in a number of collections. His work also came out in a book called The Lost Radio Scripts of Lester Dent.
The Man of Bronze is the first book in the Doc Savage series. Readers get introduced to pulp fiction hero Doc Savage, who is always ready to take on the powers in the world that want to take over the world. Doc Savage is fighting the survivors of a lost civilization from the ancient times and is engaged in lethal combat with them above the New York skyline.
Doc Savage must travel to the lost valley in order to track down a rumored treasure and for the purpose of destroying the strange Red Death once and for all. Can he do it? Pick up The Man of Bronze by Lester Dent as Keith Robeson to find out!
The Thousand-Headed Man is the second book in the Doc Savage series by Lester Dent under his house name Kenneth Robeson. Doc Savage is on a journey this time on the way to the Indo-Chinese jungles with the help of a great crew and a black Chinaman who is very mysterious.
They are going to Indo-China to try and achieve their goal of destroying the Thousand-headed Man. Doc Savage, the genius, marvel of strength, and product of science is back in this pulp fiction novel from Robeson. Born from birth as a product of science to the career that he has now, every bit of science that he could use was incorporated in his training and he had not had a life that was normal, as he had spent every day since childhood training and studying.
Now Doc Savage spends his life trying to help those that are in trouble. It is his work to help the oppressed and show up to confront those who would be fine doing evil and are beyond the reach of the law. Through all of this, Doc Savage has made it his unending quest to never accept gifts or money for the work that he does.
Savage had set up five assistants long ago. These men were each a specialist in their line of work and shared among them a passion for adventure and excitement as well as an admiration for the bronze man that was their chief and kept their group together. These five specialize in different areas and each help the Doc in a different way.
Some men like food, some like money, and some like art. Doc Savage likes adventure and putting himself in peril to save others that are in danger. He devotes his life to making himself better to the best of his ability so that all may benefit from his work.
His goal is to lend assistance to people that need it and only focus on justice. With courage and consideration and all that he holds dear, Doc Savage’s goal is to do right to all and wrong no one. Find out what happens by picking up The Thousand-Headed Man and seeing what Doc Savage and his team of assistants accomplish!
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