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The Forty Jars
Ray McGillivray · 1923 · Horror & Gothic
On the red-lit salt sands of Bo-hai, Selwyn Roberts follows the ruined Wade Hilton Bowen from a vanished camp toward a cave-world of jade clues, hidden captives and the legendary jars of Kublai Khan.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 21 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
Anthony M. Rud's Pulp-Writing World
The Forty Jars Cast
Priests, Diggers, Bearers and Bands
The Bo-hai Expedition Route
Kulang ExcavationsThe archaeological work interrupted by famine attacks.
Expedition, Captives and Cave World
English in the SandA shot desert intruder speaks English and changes the night's meaning.
The Prisoners' ChamberThe rescue reaches Christensen and Porterfield in the fetid wall chamber.
This edition
- Title
- The Forty Jars
- Author
- Ray McGillivray (Active in print in 1923)
- First published
- 1923
- Illustrated plates
- 43 original artworks · 21 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 1 · about 5,347 words
- Reading time
- 21 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- September 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
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