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Servant of the Jackal God: The Tales of Kamose, Archpriest of Anubis

Keith John Taylor

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Oct 01, 2016 S.E. Lindberg rated it it was amazing

Shelves: reviewed-by-se, weird-fiction, sword-sorcery-group-authors, sword-and-sorcery

Servant of the Jackal God: The Tales of Kamose, Archpriest of Anubis by Keith Taylor is highly recommended for the Weird Fiction / Sword & Sorcery reader.

Skelos is a magazine of Weird Fiction (launched via Kickstarter Summer 2016); inside is great Viking-horror Novelette by Keith Taylor called The Drowned Dead Shape. It is great to know that he is still active! I hope he revisits Kamose. Taylor is also known for Cormac Mac Art (Pastiche of REH) with Andrew Offutt. A Sword & Sorcery Group Read m ...more

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Nov 10, 2019 Richard rated it liked it

Shelves: ancient-world, sword-and-sorcery

Keith Taylor is a living legend of Sword and Sorcery fiction. With a career spanning decades he is still writing. Death Dealers & Diabolists features a new tale by him called The Man with the Evil Eye. Be sure to check it out if you are a fan.

I had never heard of this title, outside of the online community. Mainly because it isn't sold in brick and mortar stores. Print to order copies are still available through Wordery at a reasonable price. Servant of the Jackal God collects his stories of Kam ...more

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Aug 06, 2023 Riju Ganguly rated it really liked it

This old-fashioned collection of sorcery & conspiracy stories took considerable time to be done with. That's not because they were poorly written. Instead, they were very rich in descriptions of ancient Egypt, its religio-political features, the day-to-day life, and the eternal conflict between ambition and fall. All that required considerable attention to details, as I had to take in the vast landscape of dust, sand, sky and the Nile, against which unholy things happened.
The book contains eleve ...more

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