Khlit the Cossack is a literary character created by Harold Lamb for Adventure magazine between 1917 and 1926. Lamb wrote one short story and 18 novellas about Khlit. A number of the Khlit tales were collected in two books: The Curved Saber (Doubleday 1964) and The Mighty Manslayer (Doubleday 1969). More recently University of Nebraska Press reprin…