The Curse of Capistrano

The Curse of Capistrano
Author	Johnston McCulley
Language	English
Series	Weekly: August 9-September 6, 1919
Genre	Californio
Publisher	All-Story Weekly; Grosset & Dunlap
Publication date	1924
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Serial, Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	300
OCLC	1729949

The Curse of Capistrano is a 1919 serialized novel by Johnston McCulley and the first work to feature the fictional Californio character Zorro (zorro is the Spanish word for fox). It would be later published as a book in 1924 under the title The Mark of Zorro.^[1]

Publication history

Before being published in book form, The Curse of Capistrano appeared as five serialized installments in the pulp magazine All-Story Weekly.^[2]

After the enormous success of the 1920 film adaptation, The Mark of Zorro, the story was republished under that name by Grosset & Dunlap in 1924.^{[citation needed]}

Setting

The book tells of the story of Californio Don Diego Vega, alias 'Señor Zorro', in the company of his deaf and mute servant Bernardo and his lover Lolita Pulido, as they oppose the villainous Captain Ramon and Sgt. Gonzales in early 19th-century California during the era of Mexican rule, before it became a U.S. state (see Alta California). It is set amongst the historic Spanish missions in California, pueblos (towns) such as San Juan Capistrano, California, and the rural California countryside (see also ranchos of California).

References

^ Beale, Lewis (June 28, 2005). "Zorro still makes his mark". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 15, 2015.
^ All-Story Weekly vol. 100 #2 (August 9, 1919) - vol. 101 #2 (September 6, 1919)

External links

The Mark of Zorro at Project Gutenberg
Short radio episode Clash of Blades from The Mark of Zorro, 1924, by California Legacy Project.
The Curse of Capistrano at the FictionMags Index
The Curse of Capistrano public domain audiobook at LibriVox

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[1] Beale, Lewis (June 28, 2005). "Zorro still makes his mark". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 15, 2015.

[2] All-Story Weekly vol. 100 #2 (August 9, 1919) - vol. 101 #2 (September 6, 1919)

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