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Cover art: Frank Frazetta
This anthology is notable for its contribution to the fantasy genre during the early 1970s, a period when heroic fantasy and sword-and-sorcery tales were gaining popularity. The “Flashing Swords!” series provided a platform for both established and emerging writers to showcase their work.
Blurb:”Here are tales of steel-sinewed heroes-brawny adventurers ready to storm the gates of Hell with mighty long-swords in - hand and the grim smile of the fighting-man on their lips. And here are legions of wizards, warlocks, ghouls, demons-and worse-casting dire enchantments and summoning all the powers of darkness to their aid.
In John Jakes' Ghoul's Garden, Brak the Barbarian braves incredible perils and suffers unbelievable hardships as he journeys south into unknown lands. On the way he rescues the beautiful Shana from the mighty sorcery of the deadly
"witch trees," but he little realizes that this struggle will only be the first of the horrors he'll face along the trail. For Shana falls into the clutches of the mad wizard Pom, in whose garden of evil Brak must come to grips with the malev-olent, poison-taloned robot falcons-and the even greater malevolence of Pom himself.
Veteran fantasy author L. Sprague de Camp makes The Rug and the Bull a delightful tour de force about a poverty stricken magician, Gezun of Lorsk, who travels the provinces with his family in search of an easy dollar. Gezun always has a get-rich-quick scheme up his sleeve, and his latest ploy involves the building of a magic carpet factory. But
Gezun hadn't counted on running into Bokarri, a rival sorcerer whom he had conned years before. Not one to easily forget, the vengeful Bokarri casts one of the most devilish and fiendishly clever enchantments known to modern magi-cians... a spell not even Gezun could ignore.
Toads of Grimmerdale by Andre Norton is set somewhere above the Arctic Circle where Hertha, a woman of the snows, travels the icy trails in search of a man who savagely attacked her. Allowing her overwhelming desire for vengeance to cloud her judgment, she enlists help from the dreaded super-beings called "Toads"-creatures deceptively willing to aid those in need ... but always at a deadly price.
In Michael Moorcock's The Jade Man's Eyes you'll meet two swords for hire.
One of them is a tall, light-haired barbarian from the northlands of Melni-bone. His name is Elric, his only weapon a mystical broadsword called Storm-bringer. The other, Moonglum by name, is a small, nimble man dressed in black who carries both scimitar and dirk. Together they are known throughout the region as brawlers and rogues, but they are also the most dangerous of fighting-men. So when an overlord seeks a crew for a hazardous voyage across the boiling sea to the forbidden city of the Gods, he chooses them for the job-but would even they be equal to the task?
Commissioned expressly forthis thrill-packed volume, each of these four novellas raises the Sword-and-Sorcery genre to new heights of breathtaking adventure and imagination.“