Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Celebrates 100 Years!

 

Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Celebrates Its Centennial!

One hundred years ago, Edgar Rice Burroughs founded his own company and became the first author to incorporate himself. Today Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., is still owned by his heirs; operates out of Tarzana, California, on the property of Mr. Burroughs’ former ranch; and is actively engaged in promoting his legacy and licensing the rights to his works of wonder and imagination.

On this momentous occasion of the corporation’s centennial, which is a testament to the lasting vision and enduring legacy of the Master of Adventure, we honor and salute Edgar Rice Burroughs, our company’s founder. We humbly follow in the footsteps of this literary giant, who has laid down the foundation of our path through his entrepreneurial spirit and steadfast determination. We continue to be inspired by Mr. Burroughs as we chart the course of the corporation into the future, ever striving to maintain the high quality of entertainment for which he will be remembered for as long as there are people to read his wondrous stories.On this momentous occasion of the corporation’s centennial, which is a testament to the lasting vision and enduring legacy of the Master of Adventure, we honor and salute Edgar Rice Burroughs, our company’s founder. We humbly follow in the footsteps of this literary giant, who has laid down the foundation of our path through his entrepreneurial spirit and steadfast determination. We continue to be inspired by Mr. Burroughs as we chart the course of the corporation into the future, ever striving to maintain the high quality of entertainment for which he will be remembered for as long as there are people to read his wondrous stories.

This video features clips commemorating the corporation's centennial from Burroughs family members, staff of the corporation, and others involved in continuing the legacy of the Master of Adventure, Edgar Rice Burroughs.

00:06 Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Board of Directors

01:08 The Offices of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. – 1970's

02:20 Danton Burroughs – 1970's

03:03 John Ralston Burroughs

06:49 Dejah and Llana Jane Burroughs

08:33 Kathleen Bonnaud

10:18 Jim Sullos

13:27 Cathy Wilbanks

15:25 Christopher Paul Carey

17:15 Janet Mann, Charlotte Wilbanks and Cathy Wilbanks

20:07 Casper Van Dien

21:50 Wolf Larson

25:27 Thomas Yeates

26:14 Bill and Sue-On Hillman

27:53 Win Scott Eckert

29:23 Will Murray

30:42 Henry Franke

31:49 Jeffrey J. Mariotte

32:26 Douglas Klauba

34:41 Michael Croteau

36:21 Voice of Jess Terrell – Photos of ERB

Todd Luck on YouTube says: "Korak at the Earth’s Core is up for Preorder! NEW Tarzan Family novel!"

 Todd Luck on YouTube says: "Korak at the Earth’s Core is up for Preorder! NEW Tarzan Family novel!"

Korak at the Earth's Core - Book 1 of the Dead Moon Super-Arc - NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER!

Korak is back in his first novel-length adventure since 1916’s The Son of Tarzan

Tuesday, October 24, 2023 (Tarzana, California) A brand-new Super-Arc in the groundbreaking Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe series launches with Korak at the Earth’s Core by Win Scott Eckert! All three novels of the Dead Moon Super-Arc will be written by Eckert and encompass an epic, interconnected saga featuring the daring family members of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ legendary Lord of the Jungle in the savage inner world of Pellucidar.

Preorders of Korak at the Earth’s Core may now be placed directly from ERB, Inc. Softcover and hardcover editions, as well as a limited Collector’s Edition with a signed bookplate, will be available in a simultaneous release. Korak at the Earth’s Core features gorgeous wraparound cover art by the renowned artist E. M. Gist.

The novel is expected to ship to customers in February 2024.

The Dead Moon Super-Arc Begins...

Korak the Killer, jungle-raised son of Tarzan of the Apes, sets off into the wilds of the prehistoric world at the Earth’s core to rescue his daughter Suzanne Clayton, who has gone missing in the mysterious Land of Awful Shadow. But when the airship O-220 is hijacked, Korak and his Mangani friend Akut are stranded and must fight their way across the perilous lands and seas of Pellucidar. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to them, Korak’s mate Meriem, also racing to save Suzanne, risks everything in a perilous gambit to quickly reach the inner world.

And what of the enigmatic Dead Moon, the pendant world that hangs eternally above the Land of Awful Shadow and is taboo to the Stone Age peoples of Pellucidar? Will the Dead World give up its secrets as Korak and Meriem search for Suzanne—or will it spell their doom?

Bonus Novelette:
 “Pellucidar: Dawn of the Deathslayer” by Christopher Paul Carey

When citizens on the far frontier of the Federated Kingdoms of Pellucidar begin to go missing, a lone warrior with nothing left to lose sets off to investigate. But the dark secret he finds lying in the Charnel Caves beneath the Forest of Death will lay bare the past he seeks to escape and awaken that for which he could never be prepared.

KORAK AT THE EARTH'S CORE - Book One of the Dead Moon Super-Arc (2023 update)

San Diego ComicCon 2023... and the Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. panel held on Friday, July 22, 2023, displayed this teaser slide for....

Book One of The Dead Moon Super-Arc, KORAK AT THE EARTH'S CORE by Win Scott Eckert, releasing 2023 from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.! A brand-new Pellucidar trilogy, and the first Korak novel since Edgar Rice Burroughs' THE SON OF TARZAN!

Thanks to Christopher Paul Carey, Cathy Mann Wilbanks, Jim Sullos, cover artist E.M. Gist, and the whole team at Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.!  Book One will be announced for pre-order in a couple of months (as of the date of this writing, July 25, 2023) from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., the company Mr. Burroughs established to publish his own work.

The novel, part of the company’s “Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe” line of canonical tales, is a follow-up to my novel TARZAN: BATTLE FOR PELLUCIDAR:

In the early 1970s, Tarzan’s jungle-raised son Korak sets of into the wilds of Pellucidar (the hollow earth that Burroughs wrote about in seven novels of his Pellucidar series) to rescue his daughter Suzanne, who has gone missing in the mysterious Land of Awful Shadow.

• Book One will also heavily feature Meriem, Korak's wife.
• Book Two: PROVISIONAL title: PELLUCIDAR: LAND OF AWFUL SHADOW - starring Suzanne Clayton (Korak's daughter), Korak's grandson (a new character), and a major new Waziri character
• Book Three: PROVISIONAL title: TARZAN UNLEASHED - starring Tarzan and Jane

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KORAK AT THE EARTH'S CORE - Book One of the Dead Moon Super-Arc

It's official! Announced at San Diego ComicCon 2022!

Book One of The Dead Moon Super-Arc, KORAK AT THE EARTH'S CORE by Win Scott Eckert, releasing 2023 from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.! A brand-new Pellucidar trilogy, and the first Korak novel since Edgar Rice Burroughs' THE SON OF TARZAN!

I'm so excited to be writing this trilogy! Thanks to Christopher Paul Carey, Cathy Mann Wilbanks, Jim Sullos, and the whole team at Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.!  Book One is coming out next year from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., the company Mr. Burroughs established to publish his own work.

The novel, part of the company’s “Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe” line of canonical tales, is a follow-up to my novel TARZAN: BATTLE FOR PELLUCIDAR, and will send Tarzan’s son Korak to the inner world at the Earth’s core, a land Burroughs wrote about in seven novels of his Pellucidar series.

• Book One will also heavily feature Meriem, Korak's wife.
• Book Two: PROVISIONAL title: PELLUCIDAR: LAND OF AWFUL SHADOW - starring Suzanne Clayton (Korak's daughter), Korak's grandson (a new character), and a major new Waziri character
• Book Three: PROVISIONAL title: TARZAN UNLEASHED - starring Tarzan and Jane

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Tarzan and the Forest of Stone by Jeffrey J. Mariotte

 

Disclaimer: I was given an uncorrected advance proof of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Jeffrey J. Mariotte enters the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe with a six-gun bang! Mariotte accurately captures Tarzan’s discomfort—and amusement—at 1930s Los Angeles “civilization,” and when danger rears its head, the Lord of the Jungle doesn’t hesitate to dive in headfirst—headfirst into the Arizona desert, an environment markedly different from the lush jungles to which the ape-man is accustomed.

Using equally his wits, brawn, natural instinct for survival, and ability to commune with nature and nature’s creatures, Tarzan roars to the rescue in what is essentially a Western. A Western replete with a lost city, Indigenous Peoples’ mysticism, and train-robber bandits-cum-gangsters. Burroughs was no stranger to Westerns and it’s nice to see Tarzan and the Western motifs blended so seamlessly.

Add to that, the tale is set squarely in continuity (aka the “expanded canon” which is the trademark of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe series), taking place immediately after Lord Greystoke’s visit to Hollywood at the tail end of TARZAN AND THE LION MAN, and readers are given a delightful lagniappe when Tarzan visits Burroughs himself at the Tarzana Ranch…all in all a fantastic 5-star read!

Order TARZAN AND THE FOREST OF STONE directly from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.

April is Tarzan Month!

 April is Tarzan Month with the arrival of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Authorized Library, Tarzan volumes 13-16, with gorgeous covers by Joe Jusko, and the just-delivered and totally awesome Tarzan and Jane figures from Boss Fight Studios!

• Tarzan at the Earth's Core
• Tarzan the Invincible
• Tarzan Triumphant
• Tarzan and the City of Gold

Edgar Rice Burroughs titles... recently read!

 

Review roundup - TARZAN: BATTLE FOR PELLUCIDAR

 

Anthony R. Cardno

John Allen Small

Madeline "Mac" Gange

Derek McCaw

Audible (audio book) reviews

Edgar Rice Burroughs Podcast #16: Tarzan: The Battle for Pellucidar, Part 1

Edgar Rice Burroughs Podcast #17: Tarzan: The Battle for Pellucidar, Part 2

Tarzan: Battle for Pellucidar - Now Shipping!

From my colleagues at Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.:

The first batch of orders for Tarzan: Battle for Pellucidar by Win Scott Eckert is on its way! The limited Collector’s Edition is selling fast, so place your orders now while we still have copies. We’ve gotten a LOT of preorders for the novel, so we’ll be shipping them out through next week. Get your own copy here!

Summary of details (with more extensive info behind the link above:

• Collector’s Edition hardcover
• Regular hardcover
• Softcover
• ebook (Kindle and Nook)
• Audible audio book
• Audio book on CD
• 5-star advance reviews on Goodreads
• Superb wraparound cover by Chris Peuler
• Map of Pellucidar by Mike Wolfer
• Novelette: Victory Harben: Clash on Caspak by Mike Wolfer

Tarzan: Battle for Pellucidar - now available for preorder!

Tarzan: Battle for Pellucidar, crossing over two of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ greatest creations, Tarzan and the Pellucidar/Inner World series (At the Earth’s Core, etc.), was announced for preorder yesterday (September 1, ERB’s birthday) and while it is a standalone adventure, it also advances a four-novel “super-arc” in the recently announced canonical Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe. 

My novel is the second release, following Matt Betts’ Carson of Venus: The Edge of All Worlds, which was released last spring and is doing gangbusters.

Check out the beautiful cover art by Chris Peuler!

Here is the official announcement:

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT IN HONOR OF EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS’ BIRTHDAY!

Now available for preorder: TARZAN: BATTLE FOR PELLUCIDAR by Win Scott Eckert—the new novel in the ERB Universe’s Swords of Eternity super-arc—will be available in paperback, hardcover, and a limited hardcover Collector’s Edition (books expected to ship this Fall). Includes the bonus novelette “Victory Harben: Clash on Caspak” by Mike Wolfer.

Exclusive ERB Universe trading card offer only with preorder directly from ERB, Inc.! 

• Preordering information

• EdgarRiceBurroughs.com blog post, including video interview with me about the book

The Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe - Swords of Eternity super-arc launches!

The Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe (ERBU) is a series of all-new canonical tales expanding Edgar Rice Burroughs' worlds of wonder and adventure! 

Several prior authorized "classic" novels have already been declared canonical in terms of the ERBU (Tarzan and the Valley of Gold by Fritz Leiber and Tarzan and the Dark Heart of Time by Philip José Farmer), and now the new Swords of Eternity super-arc—a series of canonical standalone novels and stories which also combine to tell a larger tale—is launching!

Everything Is Connected!

edgarriceburroughs.com/carson-of-venus-edge-of-all-worlds/

Swords of Eternity Super-Arc

A mysterious force hurls inventor Jason Gridley and his protégé Victory Harben across space and time, bringing them face to face with heroes and heroines of unparalleled courage and ability—Carson Napier, Tarzan, John Carter, and more. With the help of their intrepid allies, Jason and Victory will uncover a plot both insidious and unthinkable—one that threatens to tear apart the very fabric of the universe!

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The first issue of the comic book miniseries Carson of Venus: The Eye of Amtor—including part one of “Pellucidar: Dark of the Sun”—hit comic book stores on February 12, 2020! Order here!

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Now available for preorder!

Carson of Venus: The Edge of All Worlds by Matt Betts—the first novel of the ERB Universe’s Swords of Eternity super-arc—is available for preorder in paperback, hardcover, and a limited hardcover Collector’s Edition (books ship in April). Exclusive ERB Universe trading card offer only with preorder directly from ERB, Inc.!

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Swords of Eternity Super-Arc:

• “Pellucidar: Dark of the Sun” written by Christopher Paul Carey - novelette (available in Carson of Venus: The Edge of all Worlds—AND the same story appears in comic format in the three-issue miniseries Carson of Venus: The Eye of Amtor)
• Carson of Venus: The Eye of Amtor written by Mike Wolfer and Matt Betts - comic miniseries from American Mythology (click to order)
• Carson of Venus: The Edge of All Worlds - novel written by Matt Betts (April 2020)
• Tarzan: Battle for Pellucidar - novel written by Win Scott Eckert (click to preorder now, forthcoming Fall 2020)
• John Carter of Mars: Gods of the Forgotten - novel written by Geary Gravel (forthcoming 2021)
• Victory Harben: Fires of Halos - novel written by Christopher Paul Carey (forthcoming 2021)

Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe - Philip José Farmer’s Tarzan and the Dark Heart of Time

My partners and I at Meteor House were so thrilled when Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. announced at the ERB panel at San Diego Comic-Con on July 19, 2019 that certain previously published authorized Burroughs novels by other writers—specifically Philip José Farmer’s Tarzan and the Dark Heart of Time and Fritz Leiber’s Tarzan and the Valley of Gold—are considered official canonical novels in terms of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe™ (ERBU), that we immediately asked ERB, Inc. if we could add the ERBU logo to our next printings of Tarzan and the Dark Heart of Time.

With an enthusiastic “yes” from ERB, Inc. in response, we quickly ordered a new run of hardcovers which we’ll have on hand at PulpFest 2019 / FarmerCon XIV this week—August 15 through 18—in Cranberry (Pittsburgh) PA. 

Softcovers won’t have the new logo until we sell through our current stock, and ebooks will be updated with the new logo shortly after PulpFest. A new first hardcover edition of Leiber’s novel is also just out, published by ERB, Inc. and Christopher Paul Carey, Director of Publishing at ERB, Inc. will have copies on hand at PulpFest.

Tarzan Lives!

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From ERB to PJF: How Burroughs Inspired Philip José Farmer - Dum-Dum 2018

On August 3, 2018, I was honored to give a guest speaker presentation at the 2018 Dum-Dum, held in Morgan City, LA, the site of the filming of the first Tarzan movie one-hundred years prior.

With thanks to Bill Hillman's ERBzine for the image conversion of my presentation, I'm pleased to make it available on Farmer's 101st birthday. Bill Hillman is also kindly hosting the presentation on his ERBzine site. 

I'd also like to thank The Official Philip José Farmer Web Page, which was a great resource as I prepared the presentation, in helping me verify that I covered everything.

In addition, I recommend downloading the accompanying audio file of my talk and scrolling through the slides/images below while listening. (Thanks to Henry Franke of the Burroughs Bibliophiles for providing the audio!)

Happy birthday, Phil!