The Chessmen of Mars
The "Tarzan" Series
By
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Never has such a character come to you from the pages of a book; never has the human brain conceived so strange a creation as Tarzan, the Ape-man.
Everybody is reading and talking of the wonderful "TARZAN" Novels, which now comprise the following:
THE CHESSMEN OF MARS
"Turan, the Slave!" they cried "Death to him!"
The Chessmen
of Mars
BY
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
Author of At The Earth's Core; Tarzan
the Terrible; The Mucker; Thuvia,
Maid of Mars, Etc.
Illustrated by
J. ALLEN ST. JOHN
CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1922
Copyright
Edgar Rice Burroughs
1922
Published November, 1922
Copyrighted in Great Britain
Printed in the United States of America
M. A. DONOHUE & CO., PRINTERS AND BINDERS, CHICAGO
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| Prelude—John Carter Comes to Earth | 1 | |
| I | Tara in a Tantrum | 5 |
| II | At the Gale's Mercy | 21 |
| III | The Headless Humans | 37 |
| IV | Captured | 56 |
| V | The Perfect Brain | 75 |
| VI | In the Toils of Horror | 90 |
| VII | A Repellent Sight | 109 |
| VIII | Close Work | 127 |
| IX | Adrift Over Strange Regions | 142 |
| X | Entrapped | 159 |
| XI | The Choice of Tara | 174 |
| XII | Ghek Plays Pranks | 191 |
| XIII | A Desperate Deed | 206 |
| XIV | At Ghek's Command | 223 |
| XV | The Old Man of the Pits | 240 |
| XVI | Another Change of Name | 256 |
| XVII | A Play to the Death | 273 |
| XVIII | A Task for Loyalty | 289 |
| XIX | The Menace of the Dead | 308 |
| XX | The Charge of Cowardice | 322 |
| XXI | A Risk for Love | 339 |
| XXII | At the Moment of Marriage | 354 |
ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE - "Turan, the Slave!" they cried "Death to him!"
Frontispiece - "The Princess Comes! Dejah Thoris! The Princess Comes!"
8 - To the girl's horror, the headless body moved
104 - Only a single antagonist could face him at a time upon the narrow stairway
144 - A giant Martian rat was gnawing upon his arm!
194 - O-Tar's sword slipped from his nerveless fingers
238 - Gahan of Gathol smote the man from his mount
292 - Gahan looked in upon a small chamber dimly lighted
350
The "Martian" Series
By
Edgar Rice Burroughs
An absorbing series of Adventures and Romance forty-three million miles from Earth. It is hardly too much to say it is the boldest piece of imaginative fiction in this generation.
Only the man who created TARZAN, the Ape-man, could have written these amazing stories, of which the following titles are now ready:
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.
The longest-living author of this work died in 1950, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 73 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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