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Anthony
Sep 05, 2021 rated it it was ok
Shelves: karl-wagner
Difficult to rate this collection. The first and last stories, Howard's "The Shadow of the Vulture" and Dyalhis's "The Sea-Witch", are imaginative and memorable page-turners. Williamson's were-Lovecraftian "Wolves of Darkness" is memorable too, because it's so goddamn bad you'll never forget wasting brain power to finish it. Everything else is a grey soup made from someone else's leftovers. ...more
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Charles
Jul 17, 2008 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: fantasy
A very good collection of heroic fantasy short stories. Edited by Karl Edward Wagner, and including Robert E. Howard, Jack Williamson, and Manly Wade Wellman among others.
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Henry Brown
Oct 11, 2010 marked it as to-read
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Steven Harbin
Apr 08, 2012 rated it it was amazing
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Aug 24, 2023 rated it really liked it
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