author
Sargent Kayme
Best known for a 1901 collection of stories set in the Philippines, this elusive writer left behind adventurous tales steeped in folklore, superstition, and colonial-era atmosphere. Very little is firmly documented, which only adds to the mystery around the name on the cover.
1 Audiobook
Anting-Anting Stories, and Other Strange Tales of the Filipinos
by Sargent Kayme
About the author
Sargent Kayme is the credited author of Anting-Anting Stories and Other Strange Tales of the Filipinos, published in 1901. The book presents fiction shaped by Filipino folklore and belief, especially the idea of the anting-anting, a protective charm or talisman, and frames its stories in a dramatic, adventurous style.
Reliable biographical detail is scarce. Library and audiobook catalog records identify “Sargent Kayme” as a pseudonym, and LibriVox lists the author as active around 1901, but I could not confirm the person’s real identity from dependable sources consulted here.
Because so little is known for certain, Kayme is remembered less as a fully documented literary figure than as a curious, half-hidden name attached to an early English-language collection of Philippine-themed tales. That mix of obscurity and vivid subject matter gives the work an unusual historical charm.