Echoes of Valor III

by Karl Edward Wagner (Editor)

mass market paperback

Genres: Fantasy, Anthologies, Sword and Sorcery

374 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1991

About the author

Karl Edward Wagner (12 December 1945 – 13 October 1994) was an American writer, editor and publisher of horror, science fiction, and heroic fantasy, who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and originally trained as a psychiatrist. His disillusionment with the medical profession can be seen in the stories "The Fourth Seal" and "Into Whose Hands". He described his world view as nihilistic, anarchistic and absurdist, and claimed, not entirely seriously, to be related to "an opera composer named Richard". Wagner also admired the cinema of Sam Peckinpah, stating "I worship the film The Wild Bunch".

Reviews

[Anthony · Rating 2 out of 5]

Difficult to rate this collection. The first and last stories, Howard's "The Shadow of the Vulture" and Dyalhis's "The Sea-Witch", are imaginative and memorable page-turners. Williamson's were-Lovecraftian "Wolves of Darkness" is memorable too, because it's so goddamn bad you'll never forget wasting brain power to finish it. Everything else is a grey soup made from someone else's leftovers.

[Charles · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very good collection of heroic fantasy short stories. Edited by Karl Edward Wagner, and including Robert E. Howard, Jack Williamson, and Manly Wade Wellman among others.

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Echoes of Valor III by Karl Edward Wagner (1991)