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Swords Against Darkness (Swords Against Darkness, #1)

Andrew J. Offutt (Editor),

Frank Frazetta (Illustrator)

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Jul 16, 2017 Clint rated it liked it

Shelves: sword-sorcery, appendix-n, 2017

I enjoy Sword & Sorcery, or Heroic Fantasy if you prefer, especially in the short story to novella format. This draws me towards collections of.

This collection has a mixed assortment. Some are great, some are not so; however, any collection that includes both Manly Wade Wellman and Poul Anderson, two of my favorites, is worth picking up.

I picked this up years ago, as Gary Gygax names Offutt and the Swords of Darkness anthologies in his Appendix N, literary influences upon Dungeons & Dragons; h ...more

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