Ep. 1076, The Zayat Kiss, by Sax Rohmer VINTAGE
The Classic Tales Podcast
B.J. Harrison
4.6 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Can Nayland Smith catch the most nefarious villain nobody knows about - Dr. Fu-Manchu? Sax Rohmer, today on The Classic Tales Podcast.
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Today’s episode also comprises the first 3 chapters of the book The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu. The first of the Fu-Manchu series. It was originally published as The Zayat Kiss in Colliers Magazine in February 1913.
The characters of Nayland Smith, Petrie and Fu Manchu crossed over into the comic world in 1931 in a black and white daily. Nayland Smith made his first appearance in Detective Comics in Detective Comics #17 (DC). Marvel later acquired the rights to the characters, and in the 1970s developed a kung fu television series around the unknown son of Fu Manchu: Shang-Chi. Masters of Kung Fu was cancelled in 1983, and the Rohmer characters haven’t been seen at Marvel since, but Shang-Chi has, eventually headlining his own installment into the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2021: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
Let’s journey back to where it all began.
And now, The Zayat Kiss, by Sax Rohmer
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| 0:00.0 | Can Nayland Smith catch the most nefarious villain nobody knows about? Dr. Fu Manchu? |
| 0:08.2 | Sax Romer. Today on the Classic Tales podcast. |
| 0:26.3 | Welcome to this vintage episode of the Classic Tales podcast. |
| 0:27.7 | Thank you for listening. |
| 0:33.6 | Are you looking for one place where you can get a dynamite audiobook every time? |
| 0:37.4 | The audiobook library card is the perfect solution. Unlimited downloads and streaming of the |
| 0:40.9 | entire Classic Tales Library for $9.99 a month. All you can listen with no limits. Each title is |
| 0:49.3 | heavily curated, so you get a great listen every time. Go to audiobook library card.com or follow the link in the show notes. |
| 0:59.0 | The story in today's episode, The Zayat Kiss, also comprises the first three chapters of the book, |
| 1:06.0 | The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, the first of the Fu Manchu series. |
| 1:12.1 | It was originally published as the Zayat Kiss in Collier's Magazine in February 1913. |
| 1:19.2 | The characters of Nailen Smith, Petri, and Fumanchu crossed over into the comic world in 1931 |
| 1:26.5 | in a black and white daily. |
| 1:29.3 | Nalen Smith made his first appearance in Detective Comics in Detective Comics No. 17, D.C. |
| 1:36.5 | Marvel later acquired the rights to the characters, |
| 1:39.2 | and in the 1970s developed a Kung Fu television series around the unknown son of Fu Manchu, |
| 1:46.9 | Shang Chi. |
| 1:48.5 | Masters of Kung Fu was cancelled in 1983, and the Romer characters haven't been seen at Marvel since, |
| 1:55.8 | but Shang Chi has, eventually headlining his own installment into the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2021, |
| 2:04.1 | Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, whose dad was originally Fu Manchu. So let's journey |
| 2:11.4 | back to where it all began. And now, the Zayat Kiss by Sax Romer. |
| 2:18.2 | A chapter 1 |
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