Echoes of Valor II

Explore the heroic past of fantasy adventure, in sword-and-sorcery epics long buried by the sands of time:ROBERT E. HOWARD'S "The Frost-King's Daughter," the adventure that led to his immortal Conan series;LEIGH BRACKETT and RAY BRADBURY'S "Lorelei of the Red Mist," a nearly-forgotten collaboration by two of fantasy's all-time greats;MANLY WADE WELLMAN;S "Hok Visits the Land of Legends," the last of Wellman's Stone Age fantasies;and four rare Northwest Smith stories from the unmistakable pen of C.L. MOORE! Contents:2 • Introduction: Robert E. Howard • essay by Karl Edward Wagner7 • The Frost King's Daughter • shortfiction by Robert E. Howard (variant of Gods of the North 1934)16 • The Frost-Giant's Daughter • [Conan] • (1976) • shortstory by Robert E. Howard29 • Introduction: C. L. Moore • essay by Karl Edward Wagner36 • An Autobiographical Sketch of C. L. Moore • essay by C. L. Moore40 • Quest of the Starstone • [Jirel of Joiry] • (1937) • novelette by C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner73 • Nymph of Darkness • [Northwest Smith] • (1935) • shortstory by C. L. Moore and Forrest J. Ackerman90 • The Genesis of an Invisible Venusienne • essay by Forrest J. Ackerman92 • The "Nymph" o' Maniack • (1948) • essay by Forrest J. Ackerman102 • Werewoman • [Northwest Smith] • (1938) • novelette by C. L. Moore129 • Foreword to "Song in a Minor Key" • essay by Sam Moskowitz131 • Song in a Minor Key • [Northwest Smith] • (1940) • shortstory by C. L. Moore137 • Introduction: Leigh Brackett and Ray Bradbury • essay by Karl Edward Wagner141 • Lorelei of the Red Mist • (1946) • novella by Leigh Brackett and Ray Bradbury209 • Introduction: Manly Wade Wellman • essay by Karl Edward Wagner213 • Hok Visits the Land of Legends • [Hok] • (1942) • novella by Manly Wade Wellman273 • Untitled Hok Fragment • [Hok] • shortfiction by Manly Wade Wellman