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Post by ChrisLAdams on Sept 18, 2017 14:50:36 GMT -5
Cool UK edition: Robert E. Howard Omnibus. Is it just me or is this gal missing some lower limbs?
Orbit UK 1977 • The Footfalls Within • The Pool Of The Black One • The Good Knight • Hawks Of Outremer • Gates Of Empire • The Grey God Passes • The Secret Of Lost Valley • Dermod's Bane • Knife River Prodigal • Drums Of The Sunset • Black Vulmea's Revenge • The House Of Arabu
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2017 18:13:30 GMT -5
Cool UK edition of Hawks of Outremer. Is it just me or is this gal missing some lower limbs?
Orbit UK 1977 • The Footfalls Within • The Pool Of The Black One • The Good Knight • Hawks Of Outremer • Gates Of Empire • The Grey God Passes • The Secret Of Lost Valley • Dermod's Bane • Knife River Prodigal • Drums Of The Sunset • Black Vulmea's Revenge • The House Of Arabu Not noticed that before. I think her lower right leg is kinda behind the creature's left forearm, he's got hold of her right ankle, I think. But, the upper left thigh of the creature has a shadow that looks like where her calf muscle would be if she extended her right leg out. I guess the left leg is somewhere behind the creature.
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Sept 19, 2017 7:23:13 GMT -5
Cool UK edition of Hawks of Outremer. Is it just me or is this gal missing some lower limbs?
Orbit UK 1977 • The Footfalls Within • The Pool Of The Black One • The Good Knight • Hawks Of Outremer • Gates Of Empire • The Grey God Passes • The Secret Of Lost Valley • Dermod's Bane • Knife River Prodigal • Drums Of The Sunset • Black Vulmea's Revenge • The House Of Arabu Not noticed that before. I think her lower right leg is kinda behind the creature's left forearm, he's got hold of her right ankle, I think. But, the upper left thigh of the creature has a shadow that looks like where her calf muscle would be if she extended her right leg out. I guess the left leg is somewhere behind the creature. Hun - I listed the title incorrectly. Fixed on the original post. Cool artwork though, huh? I really enjoy these UK editions. They're uncommon here.
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Post by ChrisLAdams on Sept 19, 2017 7:36:59 GMT -5
By the way, that appears to be a form of Pig Faced Bascinet the guy is wearing - for those interested in such:
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2017 18:12:05 GMT -5
Not noticed that before. I think her lower right leg is kinda behind the creature's left forearm, he's got hold of her right ankle, I think. But, the upper left thigh of the creature has a shadow that looks like where her calf muscle would be if she extended her right leg out. I guess the left leg is somewhere behind the creature. Hun - I listed the title incorrectly. Fixed on the original post. Cool artwork though, huh? I really enjoy these UK editions. They're uncommon here. I think I have seen that edition a couple of times. Yeah, it's a pretty good cover by Peter Andrew Jones (I just checked Howardworks to find out the name of the artist). The US editions are not too difficult to find in the UK, unless I'm hunting down the Berkley or Baen editions. Actually, I'm expecting to pick up some tasty Berkley paperbacks tomorrow. Kinda excited.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2017 18:14:58 GMT -5
By the way, that appears to be a form of Pig Faced Bascinet the guy is wearing - for those interested in such: I did not notice that on the cover! I must have been too busy trying to work out what happened with the legs, I guess.
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Post by deuce on Sept 20, 2017 11:47:19 GMT -5
Probably my favorite Jusko cover for the Boom! CFG miniseries:
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Post by deuce on Sept 28, 2017 2:37:47 GMT -5
The first page of Hawks of Outremer... “Halt!” The bearded man-at-arms swung his pike about, growling like a surly mastiff. It paid to be wary on the road to Antioch. The stars blinked redly through the thick night and their light was not sufficient for the fellow to make out what sort of man it was who loomed so gigantically before him.
An iron-clad hand shot out suddenly and closed on the soldier’s mailed shoulder in a grasp that numbed his whole arm. From beneath the helmet the guardsman saw the blaze of ferocious blue eyes that seemed lambent, even in the dark.
“Saints preserve us!” gasped the frightened man-at-arms, “Cormac FitzGeoffrey! Avaunt! Back to Hell with ye, like a good knight! I swear to you, sir—”
“Swear me no oaths,” growled the knight. “What is this talk?”
“Are you not an incorporeal spirit?” mouthed the soldier. “Were you not slain by the Moorish corsairs on your homeward voyage?”
“By the accursed gods!” snarled FitzGeoffrey. “Does this hand feel like smoke?”
He sank his mailed fingers into the soldier’s arm and grinned bleakly at the resultant howl.
“Enough of such mummery; tell me who is within that tavern.”
“Only my master, Sir Rupert de Vaile, of Rouen.”
“Good enough,” grunted the other. “He is one of the few men I count friends, in the East or elsewhere.”
The big warrior strode to the tavern door and entered, treading lightly as a cat despite his heavy armor. The man-at-arms rubbed his arm and stared after him curiously, noting, in the dim light, that FitzGeoffrey bore a shield with the horrific emblem of his family—a white grinning skull. The guardsman knew him of old—a turbulent character, a savage fighter and the only man among the Crusaders who had been esteemed stronger than Richard the Lion-hearted. But FitzGeoffrey had taken ship for his native isle even before Richard had departed from the Holy Land. The Third Crusade had ended in failure and disgrace; most of the Frankish knights had followed their kings homeward. What was this grim Irish killer doing on the road to Antioch?
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Post by keith on Sept 28, 2017 23:48:26 GMT -5
Cormac FitzGeoffrey is indeed a great character. "Hawks of Outremer" and "Blood of Belshazzar" are enough to guarantee that he'll be remembered. And reprinted for a long time. I was always very interested in the history of that dreadful gem, the Blood of Belshazzar, and wondered what happened to it in the centuries before CFG got hold of it. Not to mention afterwards. Also in his ancestry, from William the Conqueror down.
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Post by keith on Oct 2, 2017 6:29:56 GMT -5
I've always wondered about those characters of REH's that he featured in just one story, or in a couple and maybe a fragment. What was their back-story, and what became of them in the end? Maybe we have a hint of Cormac FitzGeoffrey's final fate in "The Sowers of the Thunder." Cahal and Renault are talking of Shahazar, a hidden city and "the treasure trove of the Sultans." Renault, in the year 1243, tells Cahal that "half a century ago the adventurer Cormac FitzGeoffrey raided Shahazar ... and bore away untold plunder." So just possibly Cormac, against the odds, died rich and comfortable somewhere.
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Post by thedarkman on Oct 3, 2017 13:36:30 GMT -5
I've always wondered about those characters of REH's that he featured in just one story, or in a couple and maybe a fragment. What was their back-story, and what became of them in the end? Maybe we have a hint of Cormac FitzGeoffrey's final fate in "The Sowers of the Thunder." Cahal and Renault are talking of Shahazar, a hidden city and "the treasure trove of the Sultans." Renault, in the year 1243, tells Cahal that "half a century ago the adventurer Cormac FitzGeoffrey raided Shahazar ... and bore away untold plunder." So just possibly Cormac, against the odds, died rich and comfortable somewhere. Keith, this looks like a tale that you are most well equipped to tell! More Cormac? Yes please!
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Post by deuce on Oct 18, 2017 10:40:43 GMT -5
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Post by johnnypt on Oct 21, 2017 10:50:43 GMT -5
I wonder why CFG didn’t get into mass market paperback during the 70s. As it is he really didn’t get wide exposure until the mid 2000s. Showers of the Thunder and Road of Azrael followed the Grant editions, but both were small enough (particularly Azrael) to fit the two stories and fragment. Imagine Sowers of the Thunder with the two CFG stories included, how much greater would that book have been. Or if Glenn Lord had been able to get one in each of the Books of REH. Another missed opportunity that took a couple of decades to correct.
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Post by keith on Oct 30, 2017 7:18:28 GMT -5
I did write a whole series about that cursed gem, the "Blood of Belshazzar" with speculation about its history, for REH - Two Gun Raconteur. And although I never did write those posts, I did give thought to the gaudy collection of rogues who inhabited the outlaw castle of Bab-el-Shaitan in that story. The catlike Persian, Nadir Tous, formerly an emir, the Seljuk Kai Shah, who "had ridden at Saladin's side in high honour once", and who carried a scar supposedly inflicted by Richard the Lionheart, the Yemenite Yussef el Mekru who had led a revolt (failed, we can assume) against the Turkish Sultan -- and most fascinating of all, the Venetian Tisolino di Strozza, by turns captain of the Serene Republic's warships, crusader, pirate, outlaw, a sinister rakish figure who in the old days could only have been played in a movie by Basil Rathbone -- each man in the bunch must have had a story that could provide material for a half-dozen novels by Sabatini or Harold Lamb.
Or REH. But they're just disposed of in a thumbnail sketch of a few dozen words each. Pity.
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Post by deuce on Jul 30, 2019 10:44:20 GMT -5
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