I don't have a lot to say to most of this, though I find it fascinating, since true "sword and sorcery" pulp is something I've actually only relatively recently gotten into. But I did want to comment on this:
That said, "The Other Gods" isn't a very good story.
Here we have Lovecraft in full Dunsany mode, soaking in the overripe descriptions of his Dreamlands milieu.I've read more Lovecraft than I have any other writer of the time, and I have to say that I've actually enjoyed very little--in fact, I might hazard to say "none"--of his Dreamland stories. (Of the ones I've read, anyway; I don't claim to have read all of them
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That said, "The Other Gods" isn't a very good story.
Here we have Lovecraft in full Dunsany mode, soaking in the overripe descriptions of his Dreamlands milieu.I've read more Lovecraft than I have any other writer of the time, and I have to say that I've actually enjoyed very little--in fact, I might hazard to say "none"--of his Dreamland stories. (Of the ones I've read, anyway; I don't claim to have read all of them ( ... )
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The Fantastic Swordsmen - L. Sprague de Camp
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NEW WORLDS FOR OLD, Lin Carter (Ed.), Ballantine Books, September 1971.
SWORDSMEN AND SUPERMEN, Donald M. Grant (?), Centaur Press, 1972.
SAVAGE HEROES: TALES OF MAGICAL FANTASY, Michel Parry (Ed.), Taplinger Publishing Co., Inc., 1975.
I knew about the first two, but haven't seen them! Didn't know about the second two - another Parry anthology, interesting.
There's a fifth Kardios story in Heroic Fantasy too, btw.
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