Now they are in print once more for a new generation of fantasy fiction enthusiasts.” - Official book blurb The paperback reprints of those pulp stories in the late 1960s and early 1970s encouraged an entire generation of young writers to enlarge on that tradition of popular American storytelling. Out of print for more than 40 years, these stories were first published in the days of limited-circulation fanzines-the only avenue for new work created by the generation of writers who grew up in the shadow of the pulp magazines. “These tales and a dozen more by fantasy and adventure author David C. On Attluma, ancient gods live in mountain temples and underground humans struggle to survive, and seem to be intruding on land made for, and by, demons. These stories are fantastically dark and exciting, a true blend of REH’s action and CAS’s dreaded atmosphere. Attluma is an island continent akin to the mysterious Atlantis, and these 16 tales cover its dark history and doomed end. Howard (REH, Conan creator) and his contemporary Pulp Fiction writer Clark Ashton Smith (CAS).

Smith crafts his own flavor of adventure-horror with his Tales of Attluma, heavily influenced by Robert E. Now they are in print once more for a new generation of fantasy fiction enthusiasts.ĭavid C.

These tales and a dozen more by fantasy and adventure author David C.

The last survivors of an ancient continent confront evil at every step as they march beneath skies of endless darkness to reach the haven they hope will lead them to safety. Marauders who attack a city devoted to a great goddess suffer her strange curse when she answers the pleas of her dying priestess.

Fascinating Tales from a Forgotten Era of Fantasy FictionĪ resurrected sorcerer grants the wishes of the desperate men who have returned him to life-but in ways none of them anticipates.Ī prince makes a bargain with a barbarian criminal to travel into a lost world of violence and sorcery to save the life of a woman who may already be dead.

Oron by David C. Smith