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Will Levington Comfort

(1878-1932)

Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan on January 17, 1978 to Silas Hopkins and Jane (Levington) Comfort.


Spanish-American War: 5th U.S. Calvarly

Phillipine-China War (1899): War Correspondent for "Detroit Journal" Newspaper Syndicate

Russo-Japanese War: War Correspondent for "Pittsburgh Dispatch" Newspaper Syndicate


Married Adith Duffie-Mulholland on September 30, 1900, and had three children with her: Jane Levington, John Duffie, and Thomas Tyrone Comfort. (National Cyclopedia)


Founded a socialist neo-religion. A biography by one of his followers was published after his death: Will Levington Comfort, Man of Vision (1936) by Ida Cassa Heffron. Also see: Brother Twelve: The Incredible Story of Canada's False Prophet (1992) by John Oliphant, Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology (2001) Vol.2, p.1330-1331 by Rudhyar Dane, and Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist (2019) by Gilbert Vicario.


 Bibliography 

Published Novels




Serialized Novels and Novellas




Short Stories




Poetry and Articles


Unknown

(likely short stories unless noted)


  • A Despotic Destiny (Dec 1896) --The Owl

  • The Rear Guard (Jun 1905) --Metropolitan Magazine

  • Dub, of the Corduroys (Jun 1905) --Cosmopolitan

  • Sheriff of Contention (Mar 1906) --Lippincott’s Magazine

  • When the Girls Came to Crow’s Nest (May 1906) --Lippincott’s Magazine

  • The Iron Hole (Jun 1906) --The American Boy

  • The Collie and the Celebrity (May 1907) --Ainslee’s Magazine

  • The Bisque Doll (Aug 1907) -- Ainslee’s Magazine

  • The Painted Wilderness (Nov 1907) --The Red Book Magazine -- novel?

  • Rakes (Feb 1908) --Lippincott’s Magazine

  • Lady Thoroughbred, Kentuckian (Mar 1908) --Lippincott’s

  • Lone War (Jun 1908) --Lippincott’s

  • Leper Valley (Jul 1908) --Lippincott’s

  • A Giant of Those Days (Aug 1908) --The Red Magazine

  • Great God News (Sep 1908) --Lippincott’s

  • Red War (Oct 1908) --Ainslee’s Magazine

  • Viper (Nov 1908) --Lippincott’s Magazine

  • Mimi of the Miracles (Dec 1908) --Ainslee’s Magazine

  • Thing (Dec 1908) --Lippincott’s Magazine

  • Crudity (Feb 1909) --Lippincott’s

  • Tree, the Rope, and the Man (Mar 1909) --Lippincott’s Magazine

  • Miss Cluny of Cartmel (Apr 1909) --Lippincott’s

  • Transients in Ninevah (Mar 1910) --Lippincott’s Magazine

  • Jenkins of the Appleby “Scimitar” (Apr 1910) -- Lippincott's

  • Glowworm (May 1910) --Lippincott’s

  • Cabin and a Claim (Jun 1910) --Lippincott’s Magazine

  • The Devil’s Half (Sep 1910) --Pearson’s Magazine (US)

  • The Craft and the Stroke (Feb 1911) --The Red Book Magazine

  • Daughter of an Image Maker (Oct 1911) -- Lippincott's

  • Lustrous Lady (Mar 1912) --Lippincott’s

  • China Will Repay (Apr 1912) -- Lippincott’s

  • Yellow Water (Aug 1912) --Lippincott’s Magazine

  • Oil and Acid (Sep 1912) --National Magazine-- poem?

  • A Race of Moons (Oct 1913) --National Magazine

  • Those of the Outer Dark (Nov 1913) --Lippincott’s Magazine

  • The Dream Rangers (May 1914) --National Magazine

  • The Late Mr. Jim (Sep 1915) --Top-Notch Magazine Sep 15 1915

  • White Courage (Mar 1916) --Top-Notch Magazine Mar 15 1916

  • Piry of the Phillipines (Jun1916) --McClure’s

  • Carcajous (Sep 1916) --The Popular Magazine Sep 20 1916

  • Bait (Jan 1917) --The Red Book Magazine

  • The Lure (Apr 1917) --The New Magazine (UK)

  • Gobi (May 1917) --The Popular Magazine May 20 1917

  • On the Short Cut to Eldareb (May 1917) --Short Stories

  • The Drifter (Jun 1917) --Short Stories -- novel?

  • Friend Ocean (Sep 1917) --The Blue Book Magazine -- novel?

  • Lempke (Nov 1917) --The Saturday Evening Post Nov 3 1917

  • The Plain Woman (Nov 1917) --The Saturday Evening Post Nov 24 1917

  • The Daybreak Stranger (Nov 1917) --The Blue Book Magazine-- novel?

  • When Troops Turn Home (Nov 1917) --The Green Book Magazine

  • Chi Slim Touches Town (Feb 1918) --The Green Book Magazine

  • The Tiger Lily (Mar 1918) --The Popular Magazine Mar 7 1918

  • Diamond Heart (Mar 1918) --The Saturday Evening Post Mar 16 1918

  • A Gift of the Sands (Mar 1918) --The Red Book Magazine

  • The Dun Camel Kneels (Aug 1918) --The Blue Book Magazine

  • A Reviving Wind (Feb 1919) --Adventure Feb 1 1919

  • Coral Waters (Feb 1919) --The Red Book Magazine

  • Straight as a Flame (Feb 1919) --Pictorial Review

  • The Awakening of June Vember (Apr 1919) --The Grand Magazine

  • Skag (Apr 1919) --The Saturday Evening Post Apr 5 1919

  • Gamester (Nov 1919) --The Saturday Evening Post Nov 29 1919

  • Done in Africa (Jan 1921) --Everybody’s Magazine

  • The Plucked One (Jul 1921) -- The Red Book Magazine

  • Man Who Meant Something (Oct 1921) --Woman’s World

  • Sob Stuff (Oct 1921) --McCall's

  • Big Meadow (Nov 1921) -- McCall's

  • Haunted Valley (Mar 1922) --Metropolitan Magazine

  • A Woman Followed Through the Night (May 1922) -- Pearson’s Magazine

  • Loose Tiger (Jul 1922) --Metropolitan Magazine

  • Eleven Forty-Five (Dec 1922) --Hearst’s International Magazine

  • Soledad Steve (Jan 1924) --The Saturday Evening Post Jan 26 1924

  • Enter a Tiger (Oct 1924) --The Blue Book Magazine

  • Koot Hoomi (Jan 1925) --The Saturday Evening Post Jan 10 1925

  • Thirty Years Late (Apr 1924) --The Saturday Evening Post Apr 18 1925

  • Outside of a Horse (Jul 1925) --The Saturday Evening Post Jul 11 1925

  • Damsel (Jun 1925) --Everybody’s Magazine

  • Merv (Aug 1925) --The Saturday Evening Post Aug 29 1925

  • Another Man’s Game (Sep 1925) -- Everybody’s Magazine

  • Judith Iscariot (Nov 1925) --The Saturday Evening Post Nov 21 1925

  • Hard-Rock Men (Feb 1926) --Adventure

  • John Herd's Daughter (Mar 1926) --The Saturday Evening Post Mar 6 1926

  • Trouble in the Dust (Apr 1926) --The Saturday Evening Post Apr 3 1926

  • The Curving Shore (Jun 1926) --The Saturday Evening Post Jun 5 1926

  • Firebird (Sep 1926) --The Saturday Evening Post Sep 18 1926

  • The Pariah of the Moon (Sep 1926) --The Saturday Evening Post Sep 25 1926

  • Pelty (Mar 1927) --The Saturday Evening Post Mar 5 1927

  • Java (Mar 1927) --Short Stories Mar 10 1927

  • The Quick and the Dead (Jul 1927) --Liberty Jul 23 1927

  • Clean Sage (Sep 1927) --The Saturday Evening Post Sep 17 1927

  • One of the First Ten (Oct 1927) --Liberty Oct 29 1927

  • Indulgence of the Eyes (Jan 1928) --Liberty Jan 21 1928

  • Door Marked D (Mar 1928) --The Saturday Evening Post Mar 31 1928

  • The Stone Floor (Aug 1928) --Liberty Aug 25 1928

  • Len Vitlie, Descanso (Oct 1928) --The Saturday Evening Post Oct 20 1928

  • The Eyes of the Ship (Oct 1929) -- With E. A. Lucas. The Saturday Evening Post Oct 19 1929

  • Tombstone and its Epitaph (Apr 1930) --The Saturday Evening Post Apr 26 1930

  • Sons of the Dragon (Feb 1931) --Star Magazine -- novel?

  • Dead Under the Equator (Jul 1931) --Adventure Jul 15 1931


Misc.


The paralyzed medical missionary Willimina Leonora Armstrong, as Zamin ki Dost, dictated eighteen stories of India to him to write in Son of Power (1920). The novel Bestien und Heilige (1931) was written in German by Comfort with her as well. Others of her stories transcribed by him are:

  • Blue Boar (1919)

  • Elephant Concerns (1919)

  • Fear (1919)

  • Hand of God (1919)

  • Hunting Cheetah (1919)

  • Jungle Laughter (1919)

  • Lair (1919)

  • Monster Kabuli (1919)

  • Monkey Glen (1919)

  • Bear Knob (1920)

  • Deadly Karait (1921).

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