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Victor Rousseau's Eric of the Strong Heart
Victor Rousseau's Eric of the Strong Heart was written in 1918. A Saxon princess from the Dark Ages displayed as a sideshow attraction turn out to be a real Saxon princess. Her ancient kingdom still exists, in the frozen Arctic. A fine lost world tale.
Here's my review.
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Perley Poore Sheehan’s Woman of the Pyramid
Perley Poore Sheehan’s novel Woman of the Pyramid dates from 1914. A time travel love story with past lives, ghosts, Egyptology. A modern occult investigator gets involved with a queen of ancient Egypt. Very entertaining pulp adventure/romance.
Here's my review.
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Dorothy Quick, Mistress of Dark Fantasy
Mistress of Dark Fantasy is a collection of Dorothy Quick's 1930s-50s stories from Weird Tales. Horror tales combined with gothic romance and a definite fairy tale vibe, with more emphasis on the romance than on the horror. Odd but interesting.
Here's my review.
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L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter’s Conan of Aquilonia
L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter’s 1978 Conan of Aquilonia is the first of the non-Robert E. Howard Conan books that I've sampled. depending on how you look at it it’s either a collection of linked short stories or it’s an episodic novel ( Read more... ) -
Sea-Kings of Mars and Otherworldly Stories
Sea-Kings of Mars and Otherworldly Stories is a collection of Leigh Brackett’s sword-and-planet tales, and an excellent collection it is too. Here's the link to my review
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Clark Ashton Smith's Poseidonis stories
Clark Ashton Smith's Poseidonis is a mythical island, the last remnant of the lost continent of Atlantis. It is a world of sorcery, and of power struggles between great (although frequently evil) sorcerers. Here's the link to my review of the Poseidonis stories.
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Alif the Unseen, by G. Willow Wilson
A hacker in an unnamed Middle Eastern country accidentally starts a revolution, with a little help from djinn.
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Nightwise, by R.S. Belcher
A grimdark modern sorcerer fights grimdark villains grimdarkly in this grimdark urban fantasy.
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