short stories, and 23 articles, as well as one non-fiction book. Mundy biographer Peter Berresford Ellis described him as "one of the bestselling writers of adventure-fiction of his day", while Taves characterised him as "the most influential and enduring, if not the best-selling, writer of Eastern adventure of his day". Mundy was best known for King of the Khyber Pass although his most critically acclaimed book was Om, and he personally considered Old Ugly Face to be his magnum opus. His work has been translated into a variety of European and Asian languages. During his lifetime, Mundy's work was often compared with that of H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling, both of whose careers overshadowed his own. This was a comparison that Mundy himself disliked. Taves noted that while Kipling's work is typically seen as the model for colonial literature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Talbot offers "a significant counter-example", for he was writing "for the same readers and within a similar framework, [but] he was not only overtly anti-colonial but also championed Eastern philosophy and culture." Taves expressed the view that Mundy's work was "free from prejudice" even though the latter did "occasionally indulge in stereotyped remarks" within his stories. Taves believed that the "closest parallel" to Mundy was Joseph Conrad because both included philosophical concerns within their adventure fiction, however he added that Conrad's "bleaker currents of literary modernism" contrasted with Mundy's "hopeful conclusions". Mundy's work witnessed a posthumous growth of fan interest, with Taves describing this as a "devoted but necessarily limited following". In the early 1950s, 20th Century Fox worked on a further adaptation of King of the Khyber Rifles, directed by Henry King. In 1955, Bradford M. Day compiled the first bibliography of his work, later releasing a revised version in 1978. In 1958–59, a number of Mundy's books were re-released by Gnome Press, while in 1967–71 Avon brought out an array of mass-market paperbacks. In 1983, Donald M. Grant published an edited collection of Mundy's work, Talbot Mundy, Messenger of Destiny, which also featured a bibliography and essays from two fantasy authors, Darrel Crombie and Fritz Leiber. That same year, Grant published Ellis' biography of Mundy, which was based on the Bobbs-Merrill correspondence held at Indiana University. Also in 1983, the writer-director Philip Kaufman and the producer Steve Roth announced plans for an adaptation of some of Mundy's novels, to be