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from the Sword & Sorcery: "An earthier sort of fantasy" group.
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...If you have a copy of Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Farmer has a short story in it called “The Freshman”. It’s about a horror author that has stumbled onto “the truth” and is now a freshman at M.U. (never fully named, but obvious what university is being referred to). It is not a great story, but reads kind of like a twisted Hogwarts.
Consequently, TotCM also has Karl Edward Wagner’s “Sticks”.
As promised Seth, I re-read Sticks. Not as great as memory served. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
@Joseph, based upon your review, I ordered a copy of Legion from Abe Books @Seth, I will read Sticks this week
Hesitantly excited.
Further thought to Jordan’s question: S&S works for me as a genre I believe because it is a mashup. Howard built it on the bones of historical fiction. I often find parallels between S&S and westerns or S&S and hard-boiled, etc..
@Jordan, I cannot answer your question well, but I do love mashups. I will seek the stories out you mentioned
@Seth, well written review of Dungeon. I want to say I read volume 1 years ago, but either did not finish, or it made zero impression on me. @Joseph, I selected the Hadon books as well. I started Hadon of Ancient Opar yesterday. My selection was based upon a curiosity I have for anything Wold Newton Universe related.
@Seth, no. I’m away from home until the end of next week. I was thinking of re-reading Sticks and A Blackwood’s “The Willows” for my spooky month reads. Two of my favorite creepy tales.
Great Seth!
Great lineup of authors too: RT, Kurt Busiek, Chris Claremont. I’m in
If I were to read more Kane for this group read, I think I would go with short stories. I’ve read a few collected here and there, but not many. This October, for Halloween, I plan on reading (again — I love it) “Sticks” by KEW. Great read
I finished Bloodstone. I read in someone’s review it’s like Jack Vance writing acid gothic fantasy. That’s about accurate. KEW doesn’t have the humor of JV, but he does have the vocabulary. From reviews I’ve read, most think Bloodstone is the best Kane novel. I’ve only read it and Dark Crusade, I preferred Bloodstone over DC.
Some of KEW’s descriptions were evocative. I highlighted those I enjoyed.
I read somewhere that the Gateway ebooks were poorly formatted. I did not find this the case, and will buy more of them. I will say, the cover is garbage. Goodreads shows a plain yellow cover with red lettering. That’s not the cover of my ebook. It’s a generic photo of a warrior wearing a helmet. It does not stand up to the Frazetta greatness that exists I hard to find paperbacks.
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I too am reading Bloodstone. It’s my first read of. I’m about 3/4 through and my thoughts are much the same.
Elaborating last post: the producers have a Facebook page. I wrote them a couple of months back. They are still working on it, but COVID-19 set them back.
PJF’s Tarzan Alive was a grail book of mine for a few years. I acquired it and got around to reading it late last year, early this year. It’s the start of his Wold Newton Universe. WNU is a world where literary figures, like Tarzan, are real and in a sense related. I got turned onto it actually by a Board Game and The Anno Dracula novels. Tarzan Alive didn’t live up to the hype in my brain, but it remains the start of something cool. Any other fans of?
I needed a break from my steady diet of S&S; instead of reverting to my old standby of science fiction, I read Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett which led into No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy. Both are violent and feel pulpy. What do you read other than Sword and Sorcery?
Another good one gone
I discovered KEW through S&S, but of the bit I have read, the short horror story “Sticks” is what (sorry) sticks with me
