Lin Carter S Flashing Swords 6

Get out your trusty broadsword and your masculinity, and return with us to the glory days of old-time Sword & Sorcery fiction. Sure, it's not "fine literature," but, faced with a giant snake or an evil wizard, who'd you rather have at your side: the Great Gatsby or Conan the Cimmerian? This anthology, a revival of Lin Carter's celebrated Flashing Swords! series, sets forth new adventures of worthies including Thongor of Lemuria, Varla of Valkarth, Elak of Atlantis, the mighty Hercules, and others. You'll thrill to the exploits and to the inspired writing, worthy of the Nemedian Chronicles! Our authors include Lin Carter, Pierre Comtois, Glenn Owen Barrass, Steve Lines, Robert M. Price, Glenn Usher, and others -- plus a Graphic Novella by Clayton Hinkle featuring Tonga of Lost Lemuria. The first edition of this anthology was retracted and never properly released. This is a new, thoroughly reworked edition from a new publisher -- and of course much, much better! CONTENTS "Flashing Words" Introduction by Robert M. Price "A Prince of Mars" by Lin Carter & Robert M. Price "Curse of the White Witch" by Wayne Judge "Bellico and the Tower of Mouths" by Richard Toogood "Immortals of Lemuria" by Robert M. Price "The Vanishing Conjurer" by Glynn Owen Barrass "World of the Black Sun" by Pierre V. Comtois "Boscastle and the Swamp Enchantress" by Jason Ross Cummings "Varla and the Mad Magician" by Steve Lines & Glen M. Usher "Hercules versus the Cyclops" by Santiago del Dardano Turann "Tonga of Lemuria" by Clayton L. Hinkle

On Earth, life held for him only the fate of a recluse--confined to daydreams and the lore of ancient wonders but apparently destined never to share them--until he found the formula that let him cross space to the world of the Green Star. There, appearing in the body of a fabled hero, he is to experience all that his heroid fantasies had yearned for. A princess to be saved . . . an invader to be thwarted . . . and otherworldly monsters to be faced! A thrilling adventure in the grand tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs, as only Lin Carter can tell it! This edition includes an afterword by Lin Carter.

Xothun had ruled in Omm for a thousand years -- master of strange powers, yet slave to his craving for human blood. The lost city lived only to serve -- and feed -- Xothun.... Then came the barbarian adventurer, Thongor of Valkarth, with a city to free, a princess to rescue, glory to win -- and his mightly sword to pit against Xothun's wizardry! This is the second in the adventures of Thongor, greatest warrior of the forgotten continent of Lemuria!

Kellory -- the last of the Black Wolves, sole descendant of the Lost Kings of Illyrion. His fighting arm maimed, his homeland stolen, his tribe mercilessly slaughtered by the dread Thungoda Horde, he seeks revenge with the only weapon left to him -- sorcery. But the secret arts of witchcraft are not easily surrendered by the Brotherhood of Darkness... Across the Sea of Sand, with its plethora of terrifying spells and whispering spirits of the night, Kellory seeks the Grimoire of Yaohim -- the Book of Shadows -- for only within its enigmatic pages will he find the sacred magic that will vanquish his enemies, if he can decipher its mystery before it's too late...