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Renegade Swords by Lin Carter, Glenn Rahman, Clark Ashton Smith, A. Merritt, Manly Wade Wellman, Richard L. Tierney, Robert E. Howard, Bryce Walton, D.M. Ritzlin

lakserk's review

3.0

A mixed bag of a collection. Howard's "The House of Arabu" is very good, Clark Ashton Smith's expanded "Necromancy in Naat" is amazing, Lin Carter's "People of the Dragon" & "The Pillars of Hell" are pretty good, and "The Rune Sword of Jotunheim" by Glenn Rahman and Richard L. Tierney is good. "The Woman of the Wood" by A. Merritt is also good if not exactly Sword & Sorcery. "Slaughter of the Gods" by Manly Wade Wellman was bad, with a really blunt prose, more like a caricature of Conan than anything else. "Princess of Chaos" by Bryce Walton was Sword and Planet, so not exactly my cup of tea (really dislike pulpy sci-fi).