It was followed with Avenging Liafail and The Praetor’s Dungeon. Talbot Mundy’s Lud of Lunden was first of the historical volumes, the opening of the Tros of Samothrace saga. Offutt introduces Howard villian, Thulsa Doom into the books.Īdrian Cole finished his trilogy with Bane of Nightmares Art by Tom Barber Offutt continued his Cormac series in The Undying Wizard. This book was illustrated by Mike Kaluta in a style befitting Joseph Clement Coll.Īndrew J.
His El Borak tales appeared in The Lost Valley of Iskander. Howard was collected again in a shorter version of the Arkham House book, Pigeons From Hell. Karl Edward Wagner got 1976 off to a great start with a Bran Mak Morn pastiche called Legion of the Shadows featuring Serpent Men and some Cthulhu Mythos magic. Based on REH’s character from Tigers of the Sea, Offutt explores Cormac’s Irish heritage. Offutt began a series of six novels about Cormac Mac Art with The Sword of the Gael.
The Sowers of Thunder featured tales of the Crusades.Īndrew J. Howard’s Bran Mak Morn who had appeared earlier in the late 1960s, was collected again in Worms of the Earth. Howard was the star of the line, beginning with Tigers of the Sea, a collection of mostly straight forward adventure but with one Mythos flavored S&S collaboration with Richard L. This series is almost more Sword & Planet and has some Lovecraftian imagery as well. 1975 Artists UnknownĪdrian Cole published the first two volumes in his Dream Lords trilogy, Plague of Nightmares and Lord of Nightmares. Offutt also produced new anthologies in the same spirit. Even Lin Carter and Poul Anderson, men responsible for the S&S explosion, through the Ballantine Fantasy series (that ended in 1974 ) published new books. Smith, Karl Edward Wagner and Mildred Downey Broxon supplied fresh works in the same vein. Howard books with Jeff Jones covers then moved onto Talbot Mundy and H. Zebra Books (Kensington Publishing Corporation) began in 1974 but after a year it became a source for good quality Sword & Sorcery and historical adventure that appealed to the readers of Conan and Kull.
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