May 12, 2025 and one hundred and two years ago on this day in 1923, “Argosy All-Story Weekly” published the second installment of The Moon Maid by Edgar Rice Burroughs. “The Moon Maid” wasn’t featured on the cover, which was an illustration for the first installment of the novel, “Red Clay,” by Evelyn Campbell. The artist was Stockton Mulford. Max Brand was also a contributor to this issue.
“The Moon Maid” is the second of three parts of the novel also titled, “The Moon Maid. While it is part one, it was written after the second part, “Under the Red Flag,” aka “The Moon Men.”
In this rousing tale of lunar exploration, Edgar Rice Burroughs explores reincarnation and “ serial memory, where the current incarnation has the memories of all incarnations, past and present. We also get women who can fly, centaur wannabes who crave meat, including humans and flying women, and of course, love and treachery.
If your reading of Edgar Rice Burroughs has been limited to Tarzan and the Barsoom books, this is one you really should read.
Publishing details, countless illustrations and a complete electronic version of the complete novel: https://www.erbzine.com/mag7/0767.html
The 100 -word drabble for today. “Not a Cold Dead Thing,” is excerpted from a pre-publication advertisement for “The Moon Maid” published in “Argosy All-Story Weekly.”
Author of the Tarzan tales and Martian stories, whose remarkable imagination has enthralled millions, reaches into interplanetary space in his latest fascinating serial and tells a story of adventurous earth men who brought their loves and haves to the moon.
The earth’s satellite seems a cold dead thing spinning drearily in airless space. The mind of Mr. Burroughs, going forward into the future, takes this unpromising bit of stellar waste, uncovers its secret, peoples it with strange races, and relates a vivid, gripping story of when the men from another world entered its life. The tale’s called “The Moon Maid.”
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