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Flashing Swords! 2

FOUR MORE GREAT STORIES OF SWORD AND SORCERY

BOLD!

BRUTAL!

BRILLIANT!

The carpet shuddered; a ripping motion ran along its fringes. Foot by foot, it rose from the pavement, until it was above the heads of those standing in the courtyard. The carpet continued to rise until it towered above the roof of the palace.

THE RUG AND THE BULL L. Sprague de Camp

Elric's ancestors had made pacts, thousands of years before, with all the elementals who who controlled the animal world. In the past he had summoned help from various of these spirits, but never from the one he now sought to call. From his mouth began to issue the ancient, beautiful, convoluted words of Melniboné's High Speech

THE JADE MAN'S EYES Michael Moorcock

Still watching Trystan, her hands veiling against the play of the ensorcelling light, Hertha saw his lax fingers move, clench into a fist. And then she witnessed the great effort of that gesture, and she knew that he was in battle, silent though he stood.

TOADS OF GRIMMERDALE Andre Norton

Hektor's fingers dug into Brak's eyesockets. They pressed deep. Suddenly Brak touched metal. He closed his fist on the dagger hilt, aimed the point over his shoulder, hurled his fist up and back as Hektor's thumbs pressured his eyeballs into awful agony.

GHOUL'S GARDEN John Jakes

Cover Illustration: Bruce Pennington

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 187
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780583124195
  • Characters
  • Elric of Melniboné, Brak the Barbarian
  • Settings
  • Melniboné
  • Genres
  • fantasy, anthologies, fiction
  • Release date
  • 1975