Dreams of Fire and Steel: A Sword and Sorcery Anthology

One cannot help but compare such a tome of dread takes to Moorcock and Howard. And not because it is in part a tribute to those treasures masters. A true tribute must understand the sorcery and alchemy of the original to attempt to faithfully conjure an homage.I found several of the stories instantly transported me back to an earlier time when I sought out and devoured sword and sorcery stories, be they novels of Elric of Melnibone or the black and white pages of the Savage Sword of Conan comicbooks (the best ones also had a short of Solomon Kane in the back). Stories of grim purpose and fell odds, black deeds and implacable evil, and flawed heroes who through their own resilience found the hard way to emerge victorious.The poetry, artwork, and prose in this piece evoke all of that, lovingly rendered and well executed.