 The characters of Sax Rohmer, James Oliver Curwood, and Beatrice Grimshaw appeared in "Blue Book".Adventure fiction was a staple of "Blue Book"; in addition to Burroughs, P. C. Wren, H. Bedford-Jones, Achmed Abdullah, George F. Worts, Lemuel De Bra (who specialized in "Chinatown" thrillers) and William L. Chester (with his Burroughs-influenced "Hawk of the Wilderness", about a white boy adopted by Native Americans) all published in the magazine.Sea stories were also popular in "Blue Book", and George Fielding Eliot, Captain A. E. Dingle and Albert Richard Wetjen were some of the publication's authors known for this subgenre.