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
Trooper Tales: A Series of Sketches of the Real American Private Soldier (1899)
Routledge Rides Alone (Sep 24, 1910)
She Buildeth her House (1911) - Frontispiece by Martin Justice
Down Among Men (1913)
Sport of Kings (1913)
Fatherland (1914)
Red Fleece (1915)
Lot & Company (1915)
The Last Ditch (1916)
The Shielding Wing (1918) -- also in Hearst’s Magazine April 1917
The Hive (1918)
The Yellow Lord (1919)
Magic Hours: A Romance of the East (1920)
This Man's World (1921)
The Public Square (1923)
Somewhere South in Sonora (Aug 1925) Western in Mexico.
Samadhi: A Romance of Mystic India (1927)
Apache (1931)
The Pilot Comes Aboard (Jun 23, 1932). Nautical.
Serialized Novels and Novellas
The Fortress (1905)
The Woman Who Loved Much (1909)
Facing the East (1923)
The Rising Road (1911)
Tropicania (1913)
Leave No Wounded Behind (1918)
King Caliban's Town: A Two Part Story (1920) Part I and Part II
No Return Ticket (May-Jul 1921) -- Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, and Part 7
White Hands Cling (Sep 1922) -- Illustrated by Ralph Pallen Coleman
The Threshing-Floor: How a Wastrel Found Himself--in China (Oct 1923) -- Illustrated by Lawrence Herndon
Short Stories
The Recruit in the Black Cavalry (1899) -- Illustrated by G. Y. Kauffman
Backles, War Scribe (1901) -- Illustrated by W. V. Cahill
The Espiritu Santo Trail: A Pack-Train Story (1902) -- Illustrated by F. Wilson
The Stuff in Sundown Dreve (1902) -- Illustrated by H. G. Williamson
Jimson of Many Services: The Story of a War Correspondent (1904) -- Illustrated by John Sloan
The Man Who Adopted Asia (1905)
The Siege (1905)
The Retreat of the Greeks (1905) -- Illustrated by H. C. Edwards
The Remittance Man (1905)
Trooper Stork (1906)
Senor Jim (1907)
The Fighting Death (1907)
Enter, A Lady (1907)
In Which Yellow Wins (1907)
The Sister of Steel (1909)
The Green-Room (1909)
Ordered Up Into Nineveh (1909)
The Dull Little Man (1909)
The Woman or the Spider (1910)
The Failure (1910)
The Final Portrait (1910)
The Crudstone Conquest (1913) -- Boylan from Red Fleece appears.
Those of the Outer Dark (1913)
The Black Frock Coat (1915)
Vintage, Nineteen Fourteen: A Story (Feb 1915) -- Queer. Source of several pages of Red Fleece
Chautonville (1915) -- Loosely connects to Red Fleece.
Lit Up (1915)
Fleming the Twice-Born (1915)
The "Pale Horse" Passes (1917), aka "Passing of the Pale Horse"
The Woman He Loved (1917)
The Dance, Its Place in Life (1917/8) -- maybe nonfiction
Cameo Corrigan: A Story (1918)
Tarfan: A Tale of the Hemp-Seekers of the South Seas (Nov 1919) -- Illustrated by P. V. E. Harvey
Too Much Dark Continent: A Romance of East Africa (Feb 1921) -- Illustrated by Charles Sarka
The Werewolf (May-Jun 1922) Part 1 (Part 2 is missing) -- Illustrated by Raymond Sisley
The Silent Spring (1923)
The Striding Shadow (Aug 1924) -- Illustrated by Elmer Stanley Hader
Poetry and Articles
A Gentleman of the Road (1910)
Between the Poison and the Worm: A Study of War and the New Peace (Nov 1914)
Milt's Wisdom: A Word to the Nations (Dec 1914)
Nine Great Little Books: The Story of a Quest through a Myriad Books and Days to Find the Book of the Heart Which is Humanity (1920) -- likely part of the Will Levington-Comfort Letters, a treatise on spiritualism.
Article in Horses, Dogs, and Men (1935) ed Charles Write Gray, New York : Henry Holt & Co.
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).