Edgar Rice Burroughs#Caspak series

Burroughs was born on September 1, 1875, in Chicago, Illinois,{{efn|He later lived for many years in the Chicago suburb Oak Park.}} the fourth son of Major George Tyler Burroughs, a businessman and Civil War veteran, and his wife, Mary Evaline (Zieger) Burroughs. Edgar's middle name is from his paternal grandmother, Mary Coleman Rice Burroughs.{{cite book | year = 2010 | title = Descendants of Edmund Rice: The First Nine Generations | edition= CD}}{{cite web |url= http://www.edmund-rice.org/era5gens/ |title= Edmund Rice Six-Generation Database Online |publisher= Edmund Rice (1638) Association |access-date= January 27, 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110725005839/http://www.edmund-rice.org/era5gens/ |archive-date= July 25, 2011 |url-status= dead }}{{cite book | last = Schneider | first = Jerry L | year = 2004 | title = The Ancestry of Edgar Rice Burroughs | publisher = Erbville Press | isbn = 978-1-4357-4972-6 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ZcBg6irPpVcC | format = Google Books |page= 296}}

Burroughs was of English and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, with a family line that had been in North America since the Colonial era.{{cite web |url= http://globalfirstsandfacts.com/2017/08/16/edgar-rice-burroughs/|title=Edgar Rice Burroughs|date=August 16, 2017|access-date=March 12, 2018|archive-date=March 12, 2018 |website= globalfirstsandfacts.com |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180312083449/http://globalfirstsandfacts.com/2017/08/16/edgar-rice-burroughs/|url-status=usurped}} Through his Rice grandmother, Burroughs was descended from settler Edmund Rice, one of the English Puritans who moved to Massachusetts Bay Colony in the early 17th century. He once remarked: "I can trace my ancestry back to Deacon Edmund Rice."{{Cite book |last=Burroughs |first=Edgar Rice |url=https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300191h.html |title=Escape on Venus |publisher=Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. |year=1946 |language=English |chapter=Chapter 6 |archive-date=March 17, 2025 |access-date=January 20, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250317133114/http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300191h.html |url-status=live }} The Burroughs side of the family was also of English origin, having emigrated to Massachusetts around the same time. Many of his ancestors fought in the American Revolution. Some of his ancestors settled in Virginia during the colonial period, and Burroughs often emphasized his connection with that side of his family, seeing it as romantic and warlike.Taliaferro, John. Tarzan Forever: The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Creator of Tarzan. pp. 15, 27.

Burroughs was educated at a number of local schools then at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and then the Michigan Military Academy. He graduated in 1895, but he failed the entrance exam for the United States Military Academy at West Point, so instead he enlisted with the 7th U.S. Cavalry in Fort Grant, Arizona Territory. However, he was diagnosed with a heart problem and thus ineligible to serve, so he was discharged in 1897.{{Cite book | last = Slotkin | first = Richard | author-link = Richard Slotkin | title = Gunfighter Nation | publisher = University of Oklahoma Press | page = 196 | isbn = 0-8061-3031-8| year = 1998}}

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After his discharge, Burroughs worked at a number of different jobs. During the Chicago influenza epidemic of 1891, he spent half a year at his brother's ranch on the Raft River in Idaho as a cowboy. He drifted afterward, then worked at his father's Chicago battery factory in 1899. He married his childhood sweetheart, Emma Hulbert (1876–1944), in January 1900.{{Cite web |title=ERB Biography < Edgar Rice Burroughs |url=https://www.edgarriceburroughs.com/erb-biography/ |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=Edgar Rice Burroughs |language=en-US}}

In 1903, Burroughs joined his brothers, Yale graduates George and Harry, who were, by then, prominent Pocatello area ranchers in southern Idaho, and partners in the Sweetser-Burroughs Mining Company, where he took on managing their ill-fated Snake River gold dredge, a classic bucket-line dredge. The Burroughs brothers were also the sixth cousins, once removed, of famed miner Kate Rice who, in 1914, became the first female prospector in the Canadian North. Journalist and publisher C. Allen Thorndike Rice was also his third cousin.{{cite web| url= http://edmund-rice.org/library/ERA_Entertainers.pdf | last= Rice | first= Michael A.| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150924095805/http://edmund-rice.org/library/ERA_Entertainers.pdf | archive-date=September 24, 2015 | publisher= Edmund Rice (1638) Association, Inc.| title= Meet Some of Edmund Rice's Descendants: Notable Writers & Entertainers| page= 11| access-date= October 11, 2017}}

When the new mine proved unsuccessful, the brothers secured for Burroughs a position with the Oregon Short Line Railroad in Salt Lake City.{{cite web | url= https://offbeatoregon.com/1503b.edgar-rice-burroughs-in-oregon.html| last= John| first= Finn |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170804205616/http://offbeatoregon.com/1503b.edgar-rice-burroughs-in-oregon.html |archive-date=August 4, 2017 | website= Offbeat Oregon| title= Ill-starred gold-mining venture worked out well for Tarzan fans| date= March 8, 2015 | access-date= October 11, 2017}} Burroughs resigned from the railroad in October 1904.{{Sfn | Holtsmark | 1986 | pp = [https://archive.org/details/edgarriceburroug0000holt 3]–[https://archive.org/details/edgarriceburroug0000holt 4]}}

By 1911, around age 36, after seven years of low wages as a pencil-sharpener wholesaler, Burroughs began to write fiction. By this time, Emma and he had two children, Joan (1908–1972), and Hulbert (1909–1991).{{Sfn | Holtsmark | 1986 | p = 5}} During this period, he had copious spare time and began reading pulp-fiction magazines. In 1929, he recalled thinking that:

{{quote | "[...] if people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines, that I could write stories just as rotten. As a matter of fact, although I had never written a story, I knew absolutely that I could write stories just as entertaining and probably a whole lot more so than any I chanced to read in those magazines."{{cite web |first=Edgar Rice |last=Burroughs |date=1929-10-27 |url=http://www.erbzine.com/mag0/0052.html |title=How I Wrote the Tarzan Stories |work=Washington Post, New York World (Sunday supplement) |publisher=ERBZine.com |access-date=September 4, 2010 |archive-date=September 4, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100904031424/http://www.erbzine.com/mag0/0052.html |url-status=live }}}}

In 1913, Burroughs and Emma had their third and last child, John Coleman Burroughs (1913–1979), later known for his illustrations of his father's books.{{Cite news|title=Obituaries / Danton Burroughs, 1944–2008; Tarzan Creator's Heir Protected the Legacy.|last=Nelson|first=V. J.|date=May 15, 2008|work=Los Angeles Times|id={{ProQuest| }}}}

In the 1920s, Burroughs became a pilot, purchased a Security Airster S-1, and encouraged his family to learn to fly.{{cite journal|journal=AOPA Pilot|date=May 2014|title=A Plane-Crazy America}}{{cite web|title=Joan Burroughs|url=http://www.erbzine.com/mag11/1104.html|access-date=February 14, 2015|archive-date=August 3, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150803022233/http://www.erbzine.com/mag11/1104.html|url-status=live}}

Daughter Joan married Tarzan film actor James Pierce. She starred with her husband as the voice of Jane, during 1932–1934 for the Tarzan radio series.

Burroughs divorced Emma in 1934, and, in 1935, married the former actress Florence Gilbert Dearholt, who was the former wife of his friend (who was then himself remarrying), Ashton Dearholt, with whom he had co-founded Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises while filming The New Adventures of Tarzan. Burroughs adopted the Dearholts' two children. He and Florence divorced in 1942.{{Sfn | Holtsmark | 1986 | pp = 12–13}}

Burroughs was in his late 60s and was in Honolulu at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.{{cite book|title=The Rising Sun|url=https://archive.org/details/risingsundecline00tola|url-access=registration|last=Toland|first=John|date=1970|publisher=Random House|isbn=0-8129-6858-1|edition=2003 Modern Library Paperback|page=220}} Despite his age, he applied for and received permission to become a war correspondent, becoming one of the oldest U.S. war correspondents during World War II. This period of his life is mentioned in William Brinkley's bestselling novel Don't Go Near the Water.{{Cite web |date=February 19, 2024 |title=Edgar Rice Burroughs {{!}} Biography, Books, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edgar-Rice-Burroughs |access-date=March 1, 2024 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en |archive-date=June 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190624183641/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edgar-Rice-Burroughs |url-status=live }}

After the war ended, Burroughs moved back to Encino, California, where after many health problems, he died of a heart attack on March 19, 1950, having written almost 80 novels. He is buried in Tarzana, California, US.{{Sfn | Holtsmark | 1986 | pp = 13–15}}

At the time of his death he was believed to have been the writer who had made the most from films, earning over US$2 million in royalties from 27 Tarzan pictures.{{cite news|url=https://archive.org/stream/variety177-1950-03#page/n198/mode/1up|title='Tarzan' Paid Off Big to Burroughs|page=7|work=Variety|date=March 22, 1950|access-date=April 2, 2018}}

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted Burroughs in 2003.

Aiming his work at the pulps—under the name "Norman Bean" to protect his reputation—Burroughs had his first story, Under the Moons of Mars, serialized by Frank Munsey in the February to July 1912 issues of The All-Story."[https://www.erbzine.com/mag4/0419.html The Hillmans' Virtual Visit to The Nell Dismukes McWhorter Memorial Edgar Rice Burroughs Collection] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200730223509/https://www.erbzine.com/mag4/0419.html |date=July 30, 2020 }}" (with photographs). ERBzine 4(19).Robinson, Frank M. 2000. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130316102657/http://www.all-story.com/issues.cgi?action=show_story&story_id=69 The Story Behind the Original All-Story]." American Zoetrope 4(1). Archived from the [http://www.all-story.com/issues.cgi?action=show_story&story_id=69 original] on March 16, 2013. Retrieved April 8, 2013.{{efn|name=pseud |A poem by Burroughs was published on October 15, 1910, in the Chicago Tribune as "by Normal Bean", and two more were published in the Tribune in 1914 and 1915. "Norman" was an All-Story typesetter's presumptive correction of "Normal". Burroughs used his own name for his other publications.}} Under the Moons of Mars inaugurated the Barsoom series, introduced John Carter, and earned Burroughs US$400 ($11,922 today). It was first published as a book by A. C. McClurg of Chicago in 1917, entitled A Princess of Mars, after three Barsoom sequels had appeared as serials and McClurg had published the first four serial Tarzan novels as books.

Burroughs soon took up writing full-time, and by the time the run of Under the Moons of Mars had finished, he had completed two novels, including Tarzan of the Apes, published from October 1912 and one of his most successful series.{{fact|date=September 2023}}

Burroughs also wrote popular science fiction and fantasy stories involving adventurers from Earth transported to various planets (notably Barsoom, Burroughs's fictional name for Mars, and Amtor, his fictional name for Venus), lost islands (Caspak), and into the interior of the Hollow Earth in his Pellucidar stories. He also wrote Westerns and historical romances. Besides those published in All-Story, many of his stories were published in The Argosy magazine.{{fact|date=September 2023}}

Tarzan was a cultural sensation when introduced. Burroughs was determined to capitalize on Tarzan's popularity in every way possible. He planned to exploit Tarzan through several different media including a syndicated Tarzan comic strip, movies, and merchandise. Experts in the field advised against this course of action, stating that the different media would just end up competing against each other. Burroughs went ahead, however, and proved the experts wrong – the public wanted Tarzan in whatever fashion he was offered. Tarzan remains one of the most successful fictional characters to this day and is a cultural icon.{{fact|date=September 2023}}

In either 1915 or 1919, Burroughs purchased a large ranch north of Los Angeles, California, which he named "Tarzana". The citizens of the community that sprang up around the ranch voted to adopt that name when their community, Tarzana, California, was formed in 1927.{{Citation | publisher = NOAA | url = http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/research/divisions/sd/communityprofiles/California/Tarzana_CA.pdf | place = US | title = Tarzana Community Profile | access-date = July 4, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120204074346/http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/research/divisions/sd/communityprofiles/California/Tarzana_CA.pdf | archive-date = February 4, 2012 | url-status = dead | df = mdy-all }}. Also, the unincorporated community of Tarzan, Texas, was formally named in 1927 when the US Postal Service accepted the name,{{Harvnb | Holtsmark | 1986 | pp = 9–10}}. reputedly coming from the popularity of the first (silent) Tarzan of the Apes film, starring Elmo Lincoln, and an early "Tarzan" comic strip.{{fact|date=September 2023}}

In 1923, Burroughs set up his own company, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., and began printing his own books through the 1930s.{{Cite web |title=Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Celebrates a Century in Publishing |url=https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/edgar-rice-burroughs-inc-celebrates-century-publishing |access-date=January 23, 2024 |website=lapl.org |language=en |archive-date=January 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240123145038/https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/edgar-rice-burroughs-inc-celebrates-century-publishing |url-status=live }}

Because of the part Burroughs's science fiction played in inspiring real exploration of Mars, an impact crater on Mars was named in his honor after his death.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/05/28/archives/growing-up-with.html |title=Growing up with Science Fiction |last=Sagan |first=Carl |date=May 28, 1978 |work=The New York Times |access-date=December 12, 2018 |page=SM7 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=December 11, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181211180058/https://www.nytimes.com/1978/05/28/archives/growing-up-with.html |url-status=live }} In a Paris Review interview, Ray Bradbury said of Burroughs: {{quote|"Edgar Rice Burroughs never would have looked upon himself as a social mover and shaker with social obligations. But as it turns out – and I love to say it because it upsets everyone terribly – Burroughs is probably the most influential writer in the entire history of the world. By giving romance and adventure to a whole generation of boys, Burroughs caused them to go out and decide to become special."{{cite magazine|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6012/ray-bradbury-the-art-of-fiction-no-203-ray-bradbury|title=Ray Bradbury, The Art of Fiction No. 203|first=Interviewed by Sam|last=Weller|date=2019-02-04|volume=Spring 2010|issue=192|magazine=theparisreview.org|access-date=February 4, 2019|archive-date=February 17, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190217231105/https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6012/ray-bradbury-the-art-of-fiction-no-203-ray-bradbury|url-status=live}}}}

In Something of Myself (published posthumously in 1937) Rudyard Kipling wrote: "My Jungle Books begat Zoos of [imitators]. But the genius of all the genii was one who wrote a series called Tarzan of the Apes. I read it, but regret I never saw it on the films, where it rages most successfully. He had 'jazzed' the motif of the Jungle Books and, I imagine, had thoroughly enjoyed himself. He was reported to have said that he wanted to find out how bad a book he could write and 'get away with', which is a legitimate ambition."{{cite book|first=Rudyard|last=Kipling|title=Something of Myself|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.525263|year=1937|publisher=Macmillan & Co.|location=London|chapter=8: Working Tools}}

By 1963, Floyd C. Gale of Galaxy Science Fiction wrote when discussing reprints of several Burroughs novels by Ace Books, "an entire generation has grown up inexplicably Burroughs-less". He stated that most of the author's books had been out of print for years and that only the "occasional laughable Tarzan film" reminded the public of his fiction.{{Cite magazine

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Few critical books have been written about Burroughs. From an academic standpoint, the most helpful are Erling Holtsmark's two books: Tarzan and TraditionHoltsmark, Erling B. Tarzan and Tradition: Classical Myth in Popular Literature. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1981. and Edgar Rice Burroughs;Holtsmark, Erling B. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Twayne's United States Author Series. Boston: Twayne, 1986. Stan Galloway's The Teenage Tarzan: A Literary Analysis of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Jungle Tales of Tarzan;Galloway, Stan. The Teenage Tarzan: A Literary Analysis of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Jungle Tales of Tarzan. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. and Richard Lupoff's two books: Master of Adventure: Edgar Rice BurroughsLupoff, Richard. Master of Adventure: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. and Barsoom: Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Martian Vision.Lupoff, Richard. Barsoom: Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Martian Vision. Baltimore: Mirage Press, 1976. Galloway was identified by James Edwin Gunn as "one of the half-dozen finest Burroughs scholars in the world";Gunn, James. Foreword. The Teenage Tarzan by Stan Galloway. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. p. 3. Galloway called Holtsmark his "most important predecessor".Preface. p. 5.

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Burroughs strongly supported eugenics and scientific racism. His views held that English nobles made up a particular heritable elite among Anglo-Saxons. Tarzan was meant to reflect this, with him being born to English nobles and then adopted by talking apes (the Mangani). They express eugenicist views themselves, but Tarzan is permitted to live despite being deemed "unfit" in comparison and grows up to surpass not only them but black Africans, whom Burroughs clearly presents as inherently inferior. In one Tarzan story, he finds an ancient civilization where eugenics has been practiced for over 2,000 years, with the result that it is free of all crime. Criminal behavior is held to be entirely hereditary, with the solution having been to kill not only criminals but also their families. Lost on Venus, a later novel, presents a similar utopia where forced sterilization is practiced and the "unfit" are killed. Burroughs explicitly supported such ideas in his unpublished nonfiction essay I See A New Race. Additionally, his Pirate Blood, which is not speculative fiction and remained unpublished after his death, portrayed the characters as victims of their hereditary criminal traits (one a descendant of the corsair Jean Lafitte, another from the Jukes family).[https://meridian.allenpress.com/idd/article/39/3/221/8262/Disney-s-Tarzan-Edgar-Rice-Burroughs-Eugenics-and Disney's Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs' Eugenics, and Visions of Utopian Perfection] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200912214315/https://meridian.allenpress.com/idd/article/39/3/221/8262/Disney-s-Tarzan-Edgar-Rice-Burroughs-Eugenics-and |date=September 12, 2020 }}, J. David Smith; Alison L. Mitchell

Ment Retard (2001) 39 (3): 221–225. These views have been compared with Nazi eugenics – though noting that they were popular and common at the time and that Burroughs expressed great contempt for Nazism and fascismHarvey, Ryan. [http://www.blackgate.com/2011/09/13/edgar-rice-burroughs%e2%80%99s-venus-part-3-carson-of-venus/ "Edgar Rice Burroughs's Venus, Part 3: Carson of Venus".] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920064657/https://www.blackgate.com/2011/09/13/edgar-rice-burroughs%E2%80%99s-venus-part-3-carson-of-venus/ |date=September 20, 2020 }} Black Gate – with his Lost on Venus being released the same year the Nazis took power (in 1933).[https://www.blackgate.com/2011/08/30/edgar-rice-burroughs%E2%80%99s-venus-part-2-lost-on-venus/ Edgar Rice Burroughs's Venus, Part 2: Lost on Venus] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200912222156/https://www.blackgate.com/2011/08/30/edgar-rice-burroughs%E2%80%99s-venus-part-2-lost-on-venus/ |date=September 12, 2020 }}, by Ryan Harvey, August 30, 2011, Black Gate Magazine.

In 2003, Burroughs was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.{{cite web|url=http://www.sfadb.com/Science_Fiction_Hall_of_Fame|title=Science Fiction Hall of Fame – Winners by Year|website=SFADB|access-date=December 6, 2022|archive-date=August 3, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803153518/http://www.sfadb.com/Science_Fiction_Hall_of_Fame|url-status=live}}

As of 2025, there exists a significant special collection of Edgar Rice Burroughs' various works at the Oak Park Public Library. Consisting of many rare books of his Tarzan, Mucker, Barsoom, Pellucidar, Venus, Caspak, and Moon series, the collection was developed due to Burroughs' own connection to the city, being where he wrote several of his first works, those being the Tarzan and Marian stories. Beyond the rare editions, the collection also holds a number of newspaper clippings, ephemera, correspondence between Burroughs and others, as well as various old Tarzan films. Much of the initial collection was gathered during a block party held in 1975 by a group called CHEETAH (Citizens Holding Exercises Extolling Tarzan's Anniversary Here) and compiled by Florence Moyer.{{Cite web |title=Special Collections |url=https://www.oppl.org/read-listen-watch/special-collections/ |access-date=2025-04-30 |website=Oak Park Public Library |language=en-US |archive-date=November 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241113092320/https://www.oppl.org/read-listen-watch/special-collections/ |url-status=live }}

{{Main |Edgar Rice Burroughs bibliography}}

{{Main |Barsoom}}

1. A Princess of Mars (1912)
2. The Gods of Mars (1913)
3. The Warlord of Mars (1914)
4. Thuvia, Maid of Mars (1916)
5. The Chessmen of Mars (1922)
6. The Master Mind of Mars (1927)
7. A Fighting Man of Mars (1930)
8. Swords of Mars (1934)
9. Synthetic Men of Mars (1939)
10. Llana of Gathol (1941)
11. John Carter of Mars (1964, two stories from 1940 and 1943)

{{Main |Tarzan}}

1. Tarzan of the Apes (1912)
2. The Return of Tarzan (1913)
3. The Beasts of Tarzan (1914)
4. The Son of Tarzan (1915)
5. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (1916)
6. Jungle Tales of Tarzan (stories 1916–1917)
7. Tarzan the Untamed (1919)
8. Tarzan the Terrible (1921)
9. Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1922)
10. Tarzan and the Ant Men (1924)
11. Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1927)
12. Tarzan and the Lost Empire (1928)
13. Tarzan at the Earth's Core (1929)
14. Tarzan the Invincible (1930)
15. Tarzan Triumphant (1931)
16. Tarzan and the City of Gold (1932)
17. Tarzan and the Lion Man (1933)
18. Tarzan and the Leopard Men (1932)
19. Tarzan's Quest (1935)
20. Tarzan the Magnificent (1936)
21. Tarzan and the Forbidden City (1938)
22. Tarzan and the Foreign Legion (1947, written in 1944)
23. Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins (1963, collects 1927 and 1936 children's books)
24. Tarzan and the Madman (1964, written in 1940)
25. Tarzan and the Castaways (1965, stories from 1940 to 1941)
26. Tarzan: The Lost Adventure (1995, rewritten version of 1946 fragment, completed by Joe R. Lansdale)

{{Main |Pellucidar}}

1. At the Earth's Core (1914)
2. Pellucidar (1915)
3. Tanar of Pellucidar (1929)
4. Tarzan at the Earth's Core (1929)
5. Back to the Stone Age (1937)
6. Land of Terror (1944, written in 1939)
7. Savage Pellucidar (1963, stories from 1942)

{{Main |Venus series}}

1. Pirates of Venus (1932)
2. Lost on Venus (1933)
3. Carson of Venus (1938)
4. Escape on Venus (1946, stories from 1941 to 1942)
5. The Wizard of Venus (1970, written in 1941)

1. The Land That Time Forgot (1918)
2. The People That Time Forgot (1918)
3. Out of Time's Abyss (1918)

• Part I: The Moon Maid (1923, serialized in Argosy, May 5 – June 2, 1923)
• Part II: The Moon Men (1925, serialized in Argosy, February 21 – March 14, 1925)
• Part III: The Red Hawk (1925 serialized in Argosy, September 5–19, 1925)

These three texts have been published by various houses in one or two volumes. Adding to the confusion, some editions have the original (significantly longer) introduction to Part I from the first publication as a magazine serial, and others have the shorter version from the first book publication, which included all three parts under the title The Moon Maid.{{Citation | url = http://www.erbzine.com/mag7/0767.html | title = ERBzine | access-date = November 15, 2007 | archive-date = August 22, 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070822043321/http://www.erbzine.com/mag7/0767.html | url-status = live }}.

• The Mucker (1914)
• The Return of the Mucker (1916)
• The Oakdale Affair (1918)

• The Monster Men (1913)
• The Lost Continent (1916; a.k.a. Beyond Thirty)
• The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw (1937)
• Beyond the Farthest Star (1942)

• The Cave Girl (1913, revised 1917)
• The Eternal Lover (1914, rev. 1915; A.K.A. The Eternal Savage)
• The Man-Eater (1915)
• The Lad and the Lion (1917)
• Jungle Girl (1931; A.K.A. The Land of Hidden Men)

• The Bandit of Hell's Bend (1924)
• The War Chief (1927)
• Apache Devil (1933)
• The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County (1940)

• The Outlaw of Torn (1914)
• I am a Barbarian (1967; written in 1941)

• Minidoka: 937th Earl of One Mile Series M (1998; written in 1903)
• The Mad King (1914, rev. 1915)
• {{ill|The Girl from Farris's|qid=Q19088302|short=yes|italic=yes}} (1916) {{wikisource-inline|The Girl from Farris's|The Girl from Farris's|single=true}}
• The Rider (1918)
• The Efficiency Expert (1921)
• The Girl from Hollywood (1922)
• Marcia of the Doorstep (1924)
• You Lucky Girl! (1927)
• Pirate Blood (1970; written in 1932)
• Forgotten Tales of Love and Murder (2001; stories from 1910 to 1944)
• Brother Men (2005; nonfiction)

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[http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/NomLit20.html#711 "Burroughs, Edgar Rice"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016201850/http://locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/NomLit20.html#711 |date=October 16, 2012 }}. The Locus Index to SF Awards: Index of Literary Nominees. Locus Publications. Retrieved April 8, 2013.

{{Citation|url=http://www.midamericon.org/halloffame/ |title=Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame |publisher=Mid American Science Fiction and Fantasy Conventions |access-date=March 22, 2013 |type=official website of the hall of fame to 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130521070009/http://www.midamericon.org/halloffame/ |archive-date=May 21, 2013 }}.}}

• {{Citation | last = Holtsmark | first = Erling B. | title = Edgar Rice Burroughs | publisher = Twain | location = Boston | year = 1986 | isbn = 0-8057-7459-9 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/edgarriceburroug0000holt }}
• {{Citation | last = Spence| first = Clark C. | title = History of Gold Dredging in Idaho | publisher = University Press of Colorado | location = Boulder | year = 2015 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gqh_DAAAQBAJ&q=Sweetser-Burroughs+Mining+Company&pg=PA330 | isbn = 978-1-60732-474-4}}
• {{Citation | last = Porges| first = Irwin| title = Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Man Who Created Tarzan | publisher = Brigham Young University Press |location = Salt Lake City | year = 1975 }}

• Master of Adventure: The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs by Richard A. Lupoff
• Tarzan Forever: The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Creator of Tarzan by John Taliaferro
• Golden Anniversary Bibliography of Edgar Rice Burroughs by the Rev. Henry Hardy Heins
• Tarzan Alive by Philip Jose Farmer
• Burroughs's Science Fiction by Robert R. Kudlay and Joan Leiby
• Tarzan and Tradition and Edgar Rice Burroughs by Erling B. Holtsmark
• Edgar Rice Burroughs by Irwin Porges
• Edgar Rice Burroughs by Robert B. Zeuschner
• The Burroughs Cyclopædia ed. by Clark A. Brady
• A Guide to Barsoom by John Flint Roy
• Tarzan: the Centennial Celebration by Scott Tracy Griffin
• Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Descriptive Bibliography of the Grosset & Dunlap Reprints by B.J. Lukes

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• [https://www.ERBzine.com/chaser ERB C.H.A.S.E.R Directory] Complete Edgar Rice Burroughs Illustrated Bibliography by Bill Hillman's ERBzine.com

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• [https://www.sites.google.com/site/erburroughsuk1steditions/home / 1st UK editions list with pictures of the books] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223153700/https://www.sites.google.com/site/erburroughsuk1steditions/home |date=February 23, 2022 }}
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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20130628105429/http://marsbooks.libsyn.com/ The Fantastic Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs] (podcasts)
• [http://www.ERBzine.com/ ERBzine.com]
• [https://www.sites.google.com/view/edgarriceburroughsukpaperbacks/home Edgar Rice Burroughs UK Paperbacks] list of UK 1st edition paperbacks

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