The Argosy, Christmas 1912

# The Argosy, Christmas Issue (1912) – Content Catalog

This Christmas issue of The Argosy (15 cents) features varied fiction across multiple genres. The lead offering is "Loosing the Tempest," a book-length novel by Seward W. Hopkins—a sequel involving an iceberg experience with excitement and terrors. Four serial installments continue: "Before the Dark" (Part I, Leslie Havergal Bradshaw), "Flirting with Desperate Hazard" (Part II, R. K. Thompson), "Castaways of the Year 2000" (Part III, William Wallace Cook), and "The Motor-Bus Mystery" (Part IV, Bertram Lebhar). A novelette, "Wizard or Crook" by Casper Carson, appears alongside eight short stories—including "At Five Fathoms" (Frank Williams), "One Crowded Christmas" (Douglas Pierce), "The New Man's Dilemma" (Morton P. Hobs), "On the Plymouth Express" (Frank Conly), and others exploring varied scenarios. The issue advertises upcoming serials including Edgar Franklin's "A Call to Arms" and Albert Payson Terhune's "The Trouble Hunter" for the January Argosy.